Minnesota Birth Center - Nurse Manager

Through outstanding clinical and leadership skills and respect for the physiologic birth process, the nurse manager is a collaborative team member who works in the clinic and on call under the supervision of the director of midwifery.

A qualified candidate will have a demonstrated passion for community birth, birth center and/or labor and delivery work experience, as well as a current Minnesota RN license.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains clinic nurse, birth assistant, and clinic assistant staffing by planning, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new employees, using an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach.
• Coordinates the orientation of new hires.
• Responsible for coordinating and posting nurse and clinic assistant schedules.
• Pro-actively seeks to improve efficiencies of nurse staffing model to promote a more cost-effective system.
• Directs and oversees administrative projects of the clinic nurse and clinic assistant team, including monthly CQI tasks and PDR completion.
• Supervises clinic nurse, birth assistant, and clinic assistant job performance and maintains job results by coaching and counseling.
• Responsible for facilitating communication around policy changes and reminders, facility and operations updates, procedure improvements, and other information among the nursing team members as well as between the nursing and other teams.
• Leads birth assistant, clinic nurse, and clinic assistant meetings.
• Attends CNM staff meetings and facilitates bidirectional communication between CNM and clinic nurse/birth assistant staff.
• Supports and monitors continuing education and ongoing skills and competency of the clinical staff by facilitating opportunities for skills practice.
• Manages nurse PTO and payroll on a biweekly basis; monitors hours worked by individual staff and the nursing team as a whole.
• Sits on Leadership Team to work with other clinical and administrative leaders.
• Works on reviewing, updating, and improving organizational.
• Participates in outreach.

How to Apply:

Please send a resume and cover letter to Cate Van Halsema, Front Office Supervisor, at cvanhalsema@theminnesotabirthcenter.com.