About this role
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
The Preceptor provides advanced nursing care for children, adolescents, adults, and older adult patients while promoting quality outcomes and patient safety. This role coordinates patient care, serves as a resource for staff, supports education and competency development, and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to ensure effective care delivery. The Clinical Nurse Leader also contributes to performance improvement initiatives, unit operations, and staff supervision while serving as a clinical role model and leader.
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position Summary
Performs safe, effective clinical care for children / adolescent, adult, and older adult patients utilizing the nursing process. Demonstrates advanced nursing skills aimed at ensuring optimal patient care, effective communication and unit efficiency. Assists in continuing education by assisting with teaching and orientation of staff and students. Serves as a role model through professional competence, and oversees the Competency Manager for assigned staff.
Position Key Accountabilities
- Effectively manages all aspects of the patient care process, and documents patient care and outcomes per hospital policy.
- Participates in regularly scheduled team conferences, as required, and collaborates with related health care providers in treatment, discharge planning and the provision of care.
- Functions as the nursing liaison with physicians, other multidisciplinary team members, and community agencies/resources.
- Serves as a resource for staff, to include the provision of information concerning evidenced based practice for procedures and other patient care developments.
- Participates in the development of nursing policies and instructional materials for staff/students.
- Acts in the role of Charge Nurse regarding management of supplies, equipment, and the patient care environment, to include notifying support departments of repairs needed for damaged property, equipment, etc.
- Submits PI review reports on a monthly basis.
- Participates in performance improvement initiatives for the unit (chart reviews, PI initiatives, etc.).
- Provides timely education feedback to staff, as needed, and reports to the Nurse Manager/Supervisor for continued follow-up with staff.
- Supervises Human Resources activities for direct reports (Psychiatric Technicians) regarding recruiting and selection, training/education, mentoring and performance appraisals.
- Manages Human Resources activities of department in regards to: recruiting and selection, hiring and termination, training, professional development, mentoring, counseling, performance evaluations, and salary planning.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills
- None
- Manages Human Resources activities of department in regards to: recruiting and selection, hiring and termination, training, professional development, mentoring, counseling, performance evaluations, and salary planning.
- Registered Nurse (RN) State Licensure or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) by Texas Board of Nursing (BON) required
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree in nursing from an accredited School of Nursing plus two years of nursing experience required
Associate's Degree in nursing from an accredited School of Nursing plus four years of nursing experience required
Nursing diploma (three-year program) plus three years of nursing experience requiredMinimum Experience:
2 years of nursing experience with a BSN required
3 years of nursing experience with a Nursing Diploma required
4 years of nursing experience with an ADN requiredPhysical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects. Security Sensitive:
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position.
Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.