Workplace Details
Join our team and see why Prairie Lakes Healthcare System continues to be named a Top Rural and Community Hospital year after year. Be a part of our mission to make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve by delivering accessible, high-quality, affordable, and compassionate healthcare. Prairie Lakes Healthcare System is an independent, non-profit rural healthcare system serving 10 counties in northeastern South Dakota and west-central Minnesota.
Job Summary
This position provides overall leadership, management, and long-term planning for the Cath Lab. This position works in collaboration with the Senior Director of Service Lines in providing guidance and supervision of clinical positions in the department. This position leads the overall management, operations, and communications for the department and provides financial and budgetary management, recruitment, retention, and staff development.
Responsibilities include:
- Supervises day-to-day Cath Lab duties and patient scheduling, resolves physician, practitioner, patient, and staff issues, and ensures that professional, regulatory, and legal requirements are met.
- Ensures appropriate staffing levels and overtime utilization within budget, approves employee timecards, and maintains payroll information.
- Participates in the assessment of staffing needs, maintains master work schedule, adjusts staffing, and forecasts staffing needs.
- Participates in the interview process, provides information on disciplinary actions, and mentors staff.
- Assists in Service Line planning and development.
- Collaborates with other departments and agencies regarding resources and services for improved patient care and staff development.
- Performs direct patient care to maintain staffing requirements including appropriate call rotation. Includes Cath Lab roles of scrubbing, circulating, monitoring, and/or special procedures including PICC line insertions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System offers comprehensive benefits for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 403(b)-retirement plan, and generous paid time off to maintain a healthy home-work balance.
Additional benefits for those qualifying include:
- Flexible Spending Account
- Roth IRA retirement plan
- Employee Assistance Program for mental health
- Education Loan Program
- Community discounts including the Prairie Lakes Wellness Center
Qualifications
A nursing degree is required; must have graduated from an accredited school of nursing and must hold a current license as an RN in the state of South Dakota.
Minimum three years of leadership and management experience in the area of responsibility is desired.
Experience in human relations skills and effective oral and written communication skills are required.
Proficient in the use of computer and electronic medical records systems, including MS Office and Excel.
Mandatory Basic and Advanced Life Support Training per policy.
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.
