Clinical Team Coordinator (Registered Nurse)

Job Duties

• Serves as a clinical and operational resource to support patient care delivery and clinical operations on a 24/7 basis. This may include participation in departmental scheduling requirements such as on-call, holiday, weekend, and other coverage needs.
• As operational demands require, may provide direct patient care and assume clinical responsibilities to support safe, effective operations and continuity of care.
• Provides leadership, guidance, and escalation support for clinical staff, assisting with decision-making, problem-solving, and operational challenges.
• Supervises a team of nurses, providing day-to-day direction to ensure efficient workflow, productivity, quality outcomes, and service excellence.
• Assigns and coordinates work activities to achieve operational goals, maintain regulatory compliance, and support a safe, patient-centered care environment.
• Promotes a culture of respect, safety, and compassion by ensuring care delivery aligns with patient preferences, priorities, and cultural values through staff oversight and operational leadership.
• Collaborates with the medical staff to facilitate consistency of interdisciplinary plans of care and patient throughput.
• May work to justify and gain cooperation of other parties on nursing policies, practices, and procedures.
• Manages day-to-day elements of the budget.
• Responsible for completing in a timely manner the unit’s staff schedules, to ensure adequate staffing to meet patient care needs and maintain quality care.
• Adjusts staffing in real time and authorizes overtime or scheduling changes to fill time-sensitive shifts as necessary.
• Responsible for completing payroll reconciliation and sign off.
• Identifies workflow or staffing concerns and communicates trends to the Nurse Manager.
• Takes appropriate action to follow up and resolve any issues or complaints raised by patients, families, and physicians through effective communication and escalation protocols.
• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager to evaluate, maintain and improve clinical team member performance.
• Consults on performance evaluations and may be responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to staff.
• Under guidance of Nurse Manager, issues corrective action for performance or behavioral concerns.
• Supports in creation of educational programs and setting minimum competencies.
• Consults Nurse Manager in budget forecasting and development of cost saving activities.
• Supports nursing professional development, Magnet, and Shared Governance by actively participating in and mentoring colleagues through unit-based committees, councils, quality improvement initiatives, and the Clinical Ladder program.
• Responsible for evaluating quality of clinical practice to ensure compliance with organization, department and unit specific goals.
• Makes adjustments or recommended enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of the nursing practice.
• Supports nursing research, EBP projects, and innovation initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• 2 years as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.
• RN - Licensed Registered Nurse_PA - State of Pennsylvania Upon Hire or RN - Licensed Registered Nurse_NJ - State of New Jersey Upon Hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree of Science in Nursing (MSN).
• Less than 1 year prior leadership experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Current RN licensure in state of practice.
• BLS required based on organizational guidelines/polices.
• Certification in specialty preferred
• If Certification is required on a specific unit; certification must be obtained within six months of hire date.

Physical Demands

Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.