Travel, Immunization & Allergy Supervisor (RN; On-Site)

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the well-being of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information
Stamps Health Services is an outpatient ambulatory care center that provides health care and health education to students and their spouses/domestic partners. The center is located in a state-of-the-art, 40,000-square-foot facility within the Joseph Brown Whitehead Building, next to our Campus Recreation Center. Stamps Health Services provides care in six areas: Primary care, women's health, Psychiatry, Travel/Immunization/Allergy, Pharmacy, and Diagnostic Services (lab and radiology). Primary Care Clinic is the largest of the clinics at Stamps Health Services and sees approximately 24,000 visits/year.

This Travel, Immune and Allergy Supervisor will provide leadership to the department, have oversight of the immunization compliance program, provide clinical nursing care and education to patients within the scope of the department and by the Georgia Nurse Practice Act. This hands-on supervisor will lead this team to effectively and safely provide immunization and allergy injection patient visits and will need to be comfortable with occasionally administering vaccines and allergy injections. Additionally, this role will actively participate in and lead their team to successfully administer our immunization compliance program. This compliance program involves processing incoming student immunization records as well as communicating with students, parents, and other campus partners regarding our immunization requirements. This position will advise and counsel: Patients and staff. This position will supervise: Assigned Staff

Job Duty 1 -
Practice safe, effective, and appropriate clinical nursing per department policies and procedures and within the scope of the Nurse Practice Act of Georgia. Manage patient flow; perform and document patient assessments, nursing interventions, education, and follow-up treatment and services. Support work of other clinic team members; act as a patient advocate, providing needed information.

Job Duty 2 -
Identify patients' learning needs, providing education that meets the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the patient. Provide individualized teaching including ongoing evaluation of patient understanding and compliance. Make appropriate modifications in instructional techniques for age-related and individual learning needs. Assist with development of new interventions, tools and methods of teaching. Collaborate with other team members in addressing educational needs of patients.

Job Duty 3 -
Hire, develop, and manage assigned nursing staff, collaborate with patients' other health care providers, and act as liaisons between nurses and physicians.

Job Duty 4 -
Manage and participate in the immunization compliance program including record processing, responding to student inquiries, and oversight of process.

Job Duty 5 -
Demonstrate effective leadership skills and support the department's mission, vision, and values.

Job Duty 6 -
Demonstrate and ongoing commitment to professional development.

Job Duty 7 -
Maintain current license and participate in clinical and related continuing professional education. Participate in research and performance improvement projects that enhance practice and improve patient care. Assist with the development of new procedures and evaluate effectiveness.

Job Duty 8 -
Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree of Science in Nursing or Equivalent

Other Required Qualifications
Required Certifications, Licenses or Permits: Registered Nurse

Required Experience
Two or more years of job-related experience plus one year in a management capacity

ABILITIES
Must be able to handle objects weighing up to 25 pounds or more

SKILLS
o Demonstrated leadership skills
o Analytical thinking and communication skills essential
o Demonstrates strong organizational and interpersonal skills with a customer service focus
o Position requires outstanding customer service skills, ability to maintain customer-focus in all
contacts, effective interpersonal skills, punctuality, dependability and reliability
o Additional skills required: ability to follow doctors', nurse practitioners' and physician assistant's
orders, carry out instructions and responsibilities thoroughly and completely, and ability to work
independently without close supervision

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Salary range: $86,000.00-$92,000.00

Location: Onsite (Atlanta, GA)

Job grade: S7

This is a supervisory position.
This position does not have financial responsibilities.
No, this position will not be required to drive.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Cd).
This position will not travel.
This position does not require security clearance.

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check, including a drug screening. For more information, please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening