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Position: Formula Room Lead

Talent Area: Clinical Support

Full/Part Time: Full time

Location: Houston, TX, US

Department: Clinical Nutrition Services

Shift: Monday-Friday 8-5 weekend rotation

Job ID: 412823

We are searching for a Formula Room Lead -- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting and is detail oriented. In this position, you will ensure the daily oversight of safe storage, preparation, and delivery of milk products to hospitalized infants and children through daily quality audits on critical processes and safety processes, oversight of team schedules and inventory management.

Think you’ve got what it takes?

Qualifications:

Required H.S. Diploma or GED
4 years of experience preparing infant/child feedings in a hospital setting required.

Responsibilities:

Completes employee schedules, maintains attendance records and manages overtime. Coordinates employee schedule and assignments; adjusts workload of team as needed. Manages part time hours and overtime to maintain equity for employees. Maintains accurate employee attendance records. Manages resource allocations to prevent or minimize overtime per budget requirements.
Monitors inventory levels of formula, equipment, and consumable supplies. Maintain established par levels of products and supplies used in formula production by placing orders using system requisitioning process. Communicates with clinical nutrition and supply chain managers when supply shortages are anticipated. Ensure that formula room property sent to central sterilization are tracked using central sterilization’s documentation process. Discrepancies are escalated to management.
Collect and report data for formula activities. Maintain and monitor charge capture reports to ensure all charges being entered for services provided. Maintain preparation records and daily productivity logs.
Assist with employee recruiting, onboarding, and ongoing development. Assist with interview and hiring process with manager and HR recruiter. Provide orientation of new staff to formula room, serve as primary preceptor and coordinate orientation schedule. Assists manager in identifying ongoing learning needs and completing annual competencies for all formula room technicians. Provides manager with quality and performance data to be used with formula tech annual performance evaluations.
Oversees quality and safety regulations and compliance. Provides direct input with manager regarding quality and safety processes and guidelines for department. Enforces correct safety procedures and reports concerns/trends to manager when issues are not resolved. Participates in the review/update of formula room policies, procedures, and workflows. Monitors compliance of all employees with quality and safety guidelines and implements corrective action as needed. Provides manager with quality and performance data to be used with formula tech annual performance evaluations. Prepares monthly report on quality control, department activity, training/in services, and meetings for department leadership.

About Texas Children’s

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S.News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Center for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston. We have also created the nation’s first HMO for children, established the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is also academically affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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