Clinician, 12E Integrated Medicine

Clinician – 12E Integrated Medicine, UPMC Mercy

Are you an experienced nurse ready to take the next step into clinical leadership while staying connected to patient care? UPMC Mercy’s 12E Integrated Medicine unit is seeking a dynamic and supportive Clinician who enjoys leading a team, developing staff, and making a meaningful impact at the bedside. 12E is a 35-bed acute care unit and home to patients with a wide range of acute medical diagnoses and complex care needs.

This role offers a unique combination of direct patient care and dedicated leadership time, making it a great opportunity for a nurse who wants to grow as a leader without stepping away from clinical practice. Generous sign-on bonus of $20,000 , paid out within your first 90 days is available with this role!

What You’ll Do

As a Clinician on 12E, you’ll serve as a clinical leader, educator, and resource for the nursing team. Responsibilities will include:

• Lead, educate, support, and mentor members of the nursing team.
• Provide hands-on assistance on the unit and serve as a visible, approachable clinical resource.
• Provide oversight for a designated group of team members, including performance evaluations and one-on-one check-ins.
• Monitor time and attendance and help reinforce team expectations.
• Hold staff accountable while creating an environment focused on growth, support, and professional development.
• Work independently during office hours while remaining actively engaged with the needs of the unit.
• Partner with the unit leadership team to support staffing, patient care, and overall unit operations.

Schedule

This full-time position includes a blend of clinical and leadership responsibilities:

• Two 12-hour shifts providing direct patient care/staffing support and two 8-hour office/leadership shifts each week
• Participation in the leadership on-call rotation

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate is a dynamic, confident, and supportive leader who can build strong relationships with staff while maintaining accountability. You should be comfortable working independently, stepping in to support the team when needed, and helping employees develop through education, coaching, and regular feedback.

If you’re passionate about clinical excellence, staff development, teamwork, and leadership, this is an excellent opportunity to make an impact on 12E while continuing to stay connected to bedside nursing.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by building teams and relationships through mentoring and modeling uplifting and positive communication. Coaches colleagues on cultural diversity and addresses workplace horizontal violence and impairment. Demonstrates accountability to self and others for safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyles.
• Demonstrates knowledge of performance improvement tools and techniques. Continuously improves the quality of care and the work environment of outcomes and the integration of research and best practices into daily work. Shares learning from improvements with other units and/or spreads across the business unit or system.
• Demonstrates interest in the development of others and positively impacts the lives of patients/families, peers, and members of the healthcare team through mentoring, education, and knowledge sharing. Actively participates in the role of preceptor for student nurses, nurse interns, graduate and experienced nurses and assists with the development of new preceptors in their role. Mentors and role models quest for continuous learning through formal education and the development of others. Seeks opportunities to share expertise with other members of the healthcare team within and beyond the clinical unit/department.
• Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction of the patient experience in daily work. Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues. Disseminates new knowledge and innovations through presentations, posters, and publications.
• Applies nursing knowledge and skills within the framework of Relationship Based Care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family. Demonstrates critical thinking in the analysis of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care. Practices solid verbal and written communication skills and can articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices. Ensures patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers.
• Serves as a leader in clinical nursing practice, identifying patient and staff focused opportunities for improvement and leading the change process. Identifies, educates, and supports the psychological and learning needs of staff during change and transition. Practices participatory leadership and is an active member of shared leadership at the unit, facility, or system level. Assumes formal leadership responsibilities for one or more of the following: quality improvement, evidence-based practice, GN or new hire on-boarding. Completes and/or assists with staff performance evaluations for direct reports as applicable.
• Minimum 3 years of nursing experience.
• Master’s degree preferred. BS/BSN required. If BS degree not in nursing, a Master's or higher degree in Nursing is required. Clinician Fellow title is an option to those candidates who don't currently have a Bachelor's degree but will enroll within 1 year. Pay rate is slightly lower for Clinician Fellow title.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.
• Exemplary clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care.Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in practicing state. National Certification preferred. CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Act 34

*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

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