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The Clinical Manager of the Heart Transplant Center is a key leader responsible for overseeing clinical operations, ensuring quality care, and driving program growth.
A caregiver in this role provides strategic and operational leadership across perioperative and post-transplant care, ensuring seamless coordination, regulatory compliance, and high-quality patient outcomes. You will directly supervise a multidisciplinary team while serving as a key liaison between nursing, surgical, and medical leadership to drive excellence in heart transplant care.
Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand.
A caregiver in this position works days from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
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Lead and manage the nursing operations of the Heart Transplant Program.
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Promote staff engagement, teamwork, and role clarity to maintain high levels of nursing job satisfaction and retention.
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Ensure patient safety and regulatory compliance, with a focus on continuous quality improvement (CQI).
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Develop and monitor quality assurance (QA) metrics and lead related performance improvement initiatives.
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Provide direct managerial oversight to clinical nurse coordinators, ensuring effective workflows and communication.
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Collaborate with OR, ICU, and inpatient unit managers (adult and pediatric) through matrixed leadership to coordinate transplant care.
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Support strategic initiatives that enhance the patient experience, clinical outcomes, and program growth.
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Perform other duties as assigned.
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Other duties as assigned.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
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Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN)
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Current state licensure as an Registered Nurse (RN).
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Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association required
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Minimum five years’ experience in organ procurement or transplantation.
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Progressively responsible managerial experience including hiring, orientation, scheduling and evaluation of employees in a clinical environment
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Experience in quality management and quality improvement.
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
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Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) preferred
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Nursing certification in specialty area preferred.
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Detailed knowledge of UNOS and OSOTC policies and program standards related to organ transplantation and allocation preferred.
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Physical Requirements:
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Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
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Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
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Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids.
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Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Personal Protective Equipment:
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Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Pay Range
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