Administrative Skills, Collective Bargaining, Needs Assessment, Nursing, Patient Care, Problem Solving Skills, Recruiting/Staffing Agency, Reporting Skills, Staff Requirements
Job Summary:
Performs variety of office/clerical duties to assure proper staffing and scheduling of inpatient nursing units. Maintains staffing information in multiple scheduling/staffing databases. Works with local temporary nurse agencies as staffing resource. Audits timecards of inpatient staff every other week using the automated time reporting system.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Receives acuity information from all nursing units. Inputs same into computer. Processes and evaluates results of input to determine staffing needs.
- Identifies staffing shortages. Takes appropriate action to resolve. Calls and schedules staff as required.
- Receives staffing calls. Apprises appropriate unit or shift supervisor of pertinent information and action taken.
- Maintains current employee information on automated scheduling/staffing database.
- Generates reports as needed.
- Collects, reviews timesheets for completion. Interprets and enters manual timesheets into automated time reporting system. Audits and reconciles same against schedules.
- Coordinates local contemporary nurse agency personnel. Places and cancels requests with agencies with supervisor approval. Schedules daily assignments.
- Uses automated system to notify staff of available vacant shifts and resolve staffing issues.
- Prepares staff schedules for clinical departments and centralized float pools. Applies collective bargaining unit agreements and Kaiser polices and procedures to scheduling process.
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Kaiser Permanente
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10,000 employees or more
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