Children's Health · 1 week ago
Ophthalmology Practice Team Leader RN Ambulatory
Plano, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expChildren's Health is dedicated to improving children's health and well-being. The Team Leader Nursing - Ambulatory is responsible for providing leadership to front line staff, overseeing operations, and ensuring quality patient care while balancing clinical and administrative responsibilities.
AssociationHealth CareHospitalMedical
Responsibilities
Perform all aspects of the Clinical Nurse job description when providing direct patient care during scheduled bed side care shifts
People Leadership:
Participates in the interview and selection process of new team members
Administers periodic evaluations for new staff members
Administers annual PEAC's/merit increases
Provides performance feedback to staff, including the documentation and counseling of performance issues
Maintains positive staff relations through Evidence Based Leadership and Just Culture
Completes scouting reports and weekly rounding on staff
Ensures that staff are kept abreast of changes within the unit, department, division, and organization
Provides mentoring to staff and developmental opportunities to help team members achieve their career goals
Administers disciplinary action to staff members when necessary, up to and including terminations, with support of manager and/or director and human resources
Provides appropriate recognition to staff members
Develops and implements Action Plans as a result of the feedback received from the annual Employee Opinion Survey
Accountable to ensure that staff are meeting patient care needs, standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
Ensures that staff are delivering care with a team-orientation, an emphasis on good customer relations, sound clinical judgement and appropriate decision making abilities that take into consideration evidence based practice
Ensures that staff are responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care. Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence based guidelines to globally assess the patient's situation and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient, with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and prevent any unnecessary suffering
Operational Leadership:
Responsible for new hire scheduling with their assigned preceptors during orientation period
Processes Lawson personnel actions for staff
Balances staff schedules to ensure adequate coverage and skill mix on every shift
Monitors trends with attendance and addresses any dependability issues with team members
Approves PTO requests for team members
Monitors FMLA/STD/LOA for team members
Reviews Omnicell reports
Develops and maintains positive physician relations
Responsible for ensuring direct reports timecards are accurate and complete prior to bi-weekly payroll signoff and holds staff accountable for repetitive discrepancies in their timecards
Regulatory & Quality Compliance:
Ensures clean sweeps/unit-based audits are conducted
Ensures readiness for disease specific certification audits (where applicable)
Ensures regulatory readiness
Conducts unit environmental rounds
Monitors the expiration of staff licenses & certifications
Ensures employee related paperwork is sent to HR for filing in a timely manner
Ensures that Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected and secured at all times
Adhere to all infection prevention initiatives (i.e., hand hygiene, proper disposal of waste)
Staffing:
Assumes the Charge Nurse role (frequency varies by department)
Takes on patient load shift (frequency varies by department)
Miscellaneous:
Maintains knowledge of unit-specific super users and ensures they remain qualified and proficient as a super user
Conduct family rounding (as it is rolled out to specific unit)
Attend leadership meetings
Complete projects and assignments as assigned
Qualification
Required
At least 2 years RN clinical experience
Four-year Bachelor's degree in Nursing BSN
Current license to practice professional nursing in the State of Texas
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers as required by CP 1.20 Life Support Course Requirements
Preferred
leadership experience
Benefits
Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.
4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure
Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
Caregiver Leave
Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
Company
Children's Health
Children's Health care specialized children's all health related issue and solve instantly.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (2)
2023 (2)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (5)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$22.4MKey Investors
Communities Foundation of TexasHyundai Hope On Wheels
2025-06-26Grant· $3M
2024-08-28Grant· $0.4M
2013-12-02Grant· $19M
Leadership Team
Thomas Burt
SVP, Total Rewards and HR Operations
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