Regional Clinical Director

Regional Clinical Director

The Regional Clinical Director is responsible for directing, coordinating and controlling all aspects of the daily operations and staff for the assigned region of ASC's while demonstrating the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Ensures continual delivery of high-quality ASC care.
• Supervises activities to ensure appropriate patient care and monitors efficiency of services
• Ensures appropriate staffing levels
• Fills in for nursing vacancies, as needed
• Maintains a healthy, collaborative team environment.
• Implements a program of job-based orientation, training, and on-going evaluation for all employees.
• Identifies areas that require additional reinforcement through education, consultation, or practicum.
• Adopts and implements innovative nursing practices to improve facilities.
• Ensures that surgical staff remains in compliance with professional development, Company, and regulatory standards.
• Ensures appropriate personnel are fulfilling duties as safety officer and infection control officer.
• Fills in as Infection Control and Safety Officer, as needed.
• Implements safe practices and provides knowledgeable guidance and evaluation of the environment of care management, including life safety (fire prevention), security, hazardous materials and waste management, emergency preparedness, infection control, the safe use of medical equipment, and utilities.
• Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability; completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
• Coordinates with physicians, medical staff, and senior ASC leadership to ensure that effective communication is maintained.
• Deals compassionately, professionally, and courteously with patients, their families, physicians, and fellow employees.
• Follows safety and infection control procedures.
• Identifies emergent situations and appropriately intervenes.
• Ensures that the surgical programs and clinical services are in compliance with the respective components of regulatory body and accrediting body standards. (i.e. : Joint Commission, AAAHC, Medicare, CDC, and State), and assists in the preparation for appropriate audits.
• Participates in review and revision of the policies and procedures at the Surgery Center.
• Promotes the implementation of positive customer relations by the employees and physicians.
• Maintains patient, physician, and employee privacy and confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA, Company and other regulatory standards.
• Maintains working knowledge of all equipment and procedures.
• Actively participates in safety, infection control, and quality control committees / meetings.
• Monitors and enforces staff compliance to established safety policies.
• Undergoes annual competencies specific to safety surveillance and monitoring.
• Monitors and enforces staff compliance to established Infection Control policies.
• Checks work e-mail on a regular basis throughout the workday.
• Participates in and completes all required trainings and in-services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Driving / Travel :

The employee must have reliable transportation. Travel for this position will be required up to 100%. While the primary workplace may be closest to the employee's home, work assignments could be in any of the Company's locations.

Compensation and Benefits :