Description
Plans, directs, organizes, and supervises the operational activities of a clinical service or section within a medical department, division or section. Develops and implements unit objectives, policies, procedures, and programs. Performs analysis and interprets special studies on operations, costs, or staffing requirements. Participates in the preparation of budget plans and man-hour reports and special reports. Conducts research in clinical area of expertise. A Bachelors degree is necessary. Certification by the Commission on Dietetic Registration is required as is identified on the Primary Source Verification Matrix. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.