Site Shift Manager - Misericordia

Your Opportunity:

Are you passionate about providing operational guidance and executing strategic directions that support your team to achieve organizational business goals? Do you desire an opportunity to lead a dynamic team within a healthcare setting? Yes? Then this might be your opportunity to join Covenant Health! We are looking for an experienced leader to join our team as a Site Shift Manager. This is an incredible opportunity to be an integral part of Covenant Health’s mission and vision by advocating for a highly vulnerable population, thereby answering the intrinsic call to serve, and challenging the health care system to grow, transform and innovate. In this position, you bring onboard your exceptional ability to provide keen oversight and ensure the smooth operation of our Misericordia facility. You also get a chance to lead the team during non-regular business hours in the delivery and coordination of quality healthcare services to patients and residents. As the Site Shift Manager, you would provide support in the planning and execution of resources required for regular site operations and administering frequent, unhindered healthcare services within the facility. Your ability to design operational plans, coach, be proactive, make result-oriented recommendations and ethical decisions, would help you shine in this position. Take your first step towards joining our dynamic team today by clicking on the Apply button! This is an onsite position that requires you to work night shifts. Covenant Health is proud of its 150-year history of delivering quality, innovative Catholic health services to Albertans, and is one of Canada’s largest Catholic Health organizations. Covenant Health is also a recent recipient of two prestigious awards: Alberta’s Top 75 Employer award, and one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies.

Description:

Reporting to the Senior Operating Officer, the Site Shift Manager provides effective interdisciplinary operational management for all patient care units. The Site Shift Manager is the sole onsite leader during non-regular business hours and has a site-wide purview. Through clinical leadership, mentoring, coaching and performance management of staff, promotes and models leadership competencies and ensures a high quality of patient care. The Site Shift Manager provides management for in-scope staff and provides resource management for the site to ensure efficient utilization of staff and for bed allocation. The Site Shift Manager is a resource and support for staff on site and has the authority to mitigate any patient or staff concerns related to the use of resources. The Site Shift Manager will be the initial point of contact for the Manager On-call, Acute Divisional and SLT on call and for Zone leadership in the event of an urgent issue for immediate assessment and coordination of the issue (eg., MCI, fire, flood, other threats). The Site Shift Manager would be the primary contact for AHNs or charge nurses across the Misericordia. The Site Shift Manager is responsible for coordinating the resolution of issues across the site and has the decision-making authority to make the appropriate decisions required to resolve them. The role works with admitting, ER, bed coordinators, staffing office and charge nurses to assist and lead the coordination of patient flow and ensure bed allocation and patient movement guidelines are followed at the Misericordia. The role has the authority to evaluate site capacity, close beds, and reallocate staff in areas to ensure optimal function and capacity. The incumbent has the authority to approve overtime and increase staffing but does not participate in regular staffing activities at the site. This position is non-unionized.