NURSING-TEAM LEAD

p style="margin-left:23px;"span style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"strongSUMMARY/OBJECTIVE: /strong/span/span/p p style="margin-left:24px;margin-right:40px;"span style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"The Nurse Team Lead is responsible for aiding in the development and maintenance of an environment that supports all medical staff including Registered and Licensed Practical Nurses. The team lead reports directly to the Director of Nursing (DON) and coordinates with are manager and nursing staff to ensure proper training, guidance, and nursing services that maintain evidenced based standards of care. The Team Lead assists with ensuring policies, procedures, and regulations are followed. The Team Lead will promote the vision, mission, and values of the organization. /span/span/p h1 style="margin-left:23px;"span style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Essential Functions (Job Duties) /span/span/h1 pnbsp;/p ul lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Demonstrate necessary skills and knowledge to provide care for individuals we support according to policy, procedure and division/unit specific competencies as well as assist with providing patient care, as well as oversight and support to the nursing team. /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Comply with Office of Mental Health (OMH), Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), Office of Persons with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD),New York State and Federal regulations, laws and ethical guidelines. /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Provides formal and informal supportive physical and mental health care and maintenance education in a variety of areas to people we support as well as their family/team /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Administer injections and medications as directed by prescriber. /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Infection control duties as directed ndash; may include policy and procedure development, maintenance, implementation, continued education, tracking and reporting. /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Acts as a resource in identifying, communicating and/or offering solutions for nursing/operational problems in partnership with CO team /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Statistic data collection and reporting. /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Assist with payroll, hiring and scheduling to ensuring nurse coverage meets budgetary and regulatory requirements. /span/span/li lispan style="font-size:11pt;"span style="color:#000000;"Address manager level issues related to workflow, patient care and nursing process as well as and report up to DON. /span/span/li /ul