Lead Operations and Care Excellence with UnityPoint Health LifeFlight

Join our LifeFlight team as a Clinical Team Leader (Base Lead) and play a vital role in ensuring safe, efficient, and compassionate care during critical moments. In this unique leadership position, you’ll oversee daily operations at assigned base(s), coordinate activities of medical personnel, and champion the implementation of LifeFlight standards—all while serving as an active flight crew member.

As part of an interdisciplinary team, you’ll deliver high-quality nursing care within the scope of Iowa practice and LifeFlight protocols, collaborating with physicians and healthcare professionals to provide holistic, patient-centered care. Your commitment to safety, professionalism, and service excellence will help us uphold UnityPoint Health’s FOCUS values and make a meaningful impact on patients and families.

If you’re ready to combine leadership with hands-on clinical expertise in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, we’d love to have you on our team.

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.  

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.  Here are just a few:      

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.   

• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.  

• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.   

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.   

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience. 

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

• Assesses the needs of patients and families, providing appropriate teaching and making the necessary referrals to provide continuity of care.
• Develops an individual plan of care using a collaborative approach with the patient/family and health care team.
• Promptly completes documentation to assure an accurate legal record of patient’s care.
• Delivers high quality care utilizing the nursing process while demonstrating knowledge and clinical skills of the specialty required on assigned unit in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of care.
• Utilizes holistic approach (considering biopsychosocial, spiritual, educational, safety, and related criteria) appropriate to the age of the patients and families served in the assigned service area.
• Delegates and provides direction for other healthcare team members within their scope of practice and holds them accountable for their involvement in the plan of care.
• Utilizes critical thinking in developing nursing interventions while maintaining responsibility and accountability for the knowledge of conditions of assigned patients.
• Assess and chooses teaching strategies appropriate to the patient’s and their families’ age specific needs, culture, gender, readiness to learn and level of comprehension.
• Consults appropriate resources within the hospital to provide specialized education.
• Demonstrates knowledge that patient and workplace safety is a priority by preventing errors, accidents and infections and reporting potential or actual concerns immediately.

Education: 

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program

Experience: 

• Minimum 3-5 years full-time with high volume Level 1 or Level 2 Trauma Center and/or Intensive Care Unit 

License(s)/Certifications(s):

• Current RN licensure in Iowa

• Must possess and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification or obtain certification within three (3) months from date of hire. 

• TPATC (preferred)

• CFRN (required within 2 years of hire) 

• Valid driver’s license when driving any vehicle for work-related reasons. 

Other:

• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position. 
• Work may require travel to other UPH facilities our bases of operation.  May drive a UPH vehicle, rental or own vehicle.
• Ability to perform functions of the job in all conditions of the environment including weather extremes, noise, vibration and aviation (fumes, flicker, altitude, turbulence).