Staffing Coordinator- RN

Staffing Coordinator

The Staffing Coordinator collaborates with department leaders to create, improve, standardize, and implement systems and processes to ensure staffing patterns that prioritize patient safety and efficiently utilize resources. Patient census, daily staffing needs, and unplanned staffing fluctuations will be monitored and managed using a comprehensive knowledge of patient acuity, clinical skill competencies, and unit patient flow at an expert level.

Analyzes daily unit staffing patterns, census, and acuity to identify problems and efficiently deploys resources at an expert level.

Collaborates with unit leaders to ensure levelized scheduling and staffing and to evaluate skill mix.

Acts as a resource to unit leadership and staff by exemplifying an understanding of patient acuity, clinical skill competencies, and unit patient flow for assigned areas. Serves in key roles, mentors others, and helps to lead effective group processes with clear outcomes on councils, committees, and hospital initiatives. Onboarding, recruitment, and retention activities, and assists with evaluation and improvement of these practices as needed. Successfully leads individuals, groups, and activities to solve increasingly complex issues and achieve patient goals and positive outcomes.

Participates in interdisciplinary shared decision-making activities by actively leading and participating in Shared Decision Making Councils.

Reviews and reconciles payroll for assigned areas.

Completes special assignments within the designated time frame, including, but not limited to, PDSA cycles and Lean Six Sigma Processes to minimize cost and maximize resources.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Arkansas Children's is the only hospital system in the state dedicated to caring for children, which enables us to uniquely shape the landscape of pediatric care in Arkansas.

Arkansas Children's is driven by four core values-safety, teamwork, compassion and excellence-which inform every action.

Arkansas Children's Hospital has received Magnet Status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), for nursing excellence and patient outcomes. And we are nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report for Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery and Urology.

For more than a century, Arkansas Children's has met the unique needs of children. But we're more than just a hospital treating sick kids-our services include two hospitals, a pediatric research institute, foundation, clinics, education and outreach, all with an unyielding commitment to making children better today and healthier tomorrow.

Arkansas Children's Little Rock campus includes a 336-bed hospital with the state's only pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, burn center, Level 4 neonatal intensive care and pediatric intensive care, as well as a nationally-recognized transport service. And Arkansas Children's Northwest provides inpatient and emergency care, clinic rooms and diagnostic services to children in that corner of the state.

Arkansas Children's provides equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin or citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. Further, Arkansas Children's will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.