Nathan Cody

In my role as a Contingent Team Member Liaison Specialist, I specialize in overseeing the hiring, management, and performance of contract Registered Nurses (RN’s & LPN’s) & Certified Nursing Assistants at Corewell Health. Continuing, my current role allows me to serve as a liaison between the internal business partners, stakeholders, and external agency staff suppliers to support the critical nursing business needs across Corewell Health West and South.

Key Job Functions:

• Demonstrates mastery of all day-to-day strategic operational functions including strategic and operational meetings with key client contacts, handling escalations, pay-roll, along with compliance and requisition management.
• Consults with hiring managers to understand position specific requirements. Ensures timely and accurate posting of positions, applicant review and submission of applicants for hiring manager consideration, within the applicant tracking systems (WorkDay & FieldGlass)
• Implements many cost savings initiatives by completing continuous market analysis. In addition, I consistently supply reporting on current Agency Staff to operational leaders within the business.
• Manages over 40 different supplier relationships, which include contract negotiation, VMS training, performance metrics and ongoing engagement. Additional responsibilities included managing involuntary dismissals, performance of contracted staff and customer service.
• Manages efforts to convert Agency Staff Nurses to employed positions throughout Corewell Health through strategic marketing efforts and outreach. This included email campaigns and phone calls to candidates to inform them of open opportunities in our system. These efforts also benefitted the organization from a financial perspective due to the large cost associated with Agency Staff utilization.
• Created and maintained Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)

• Responsible for managing the recruitment process for entry level and/or high-volume positions within the Corewell Health system’s Contingent Labor Program, delivering strong slates of qualified, diverse candidates to hiring managers. Ensures exceptional experiences for all applicants.

Key Job Functions:

• Consults with hiring managers to understand position specific requirements. Ensures timely and accurate posting of positions, applicant review and submission of applicants for hiring manager consideration, within the applicant tracking system (WorkDay & FieldGlass)
• Appropriately screens applicants to ensure qualifications and availability, in accordance with Affirmative Action requirements.
• Facilitates offers of employment and initiates onboarding process.

Responsible for onboarding compliance for contingent labor program at Corewell Health. Serving as a liaison for the suppliers of contingent labor at Corewell Health, as well as supporting senior recruiters with hiring and onboarding. Primary business areas served include non-clinical roles including IS & IT.

Key Job Functions:

• Initiates independent problem solving and follow up with recruiters or leadership as needed. Act as a liaison for key stakeholders (I.e., Business Counterparts, Finance, IS) to ensure seamless integration.
• Verifies candidate information including background checks, employee health, licensed certification and fingerprints with 100% accuracy.
• Implements the team member onboarding vision and strategy by focusing on inclusive and positive experience through the initiation of pre-on boarding activities.
• Invests time building strong working relationships with internal clients to further support and prepare new team members to acclimate to the new working environment.
• Actively coordinates contractor interviews with suppliers for various IS & IT roles for Corewell Health and Priority Health

Served in leadership role within the Cardiac Monitoring Center. Responsibilities included staffing and scheduling for 50 employees and being in a supervisory role during shifts. Additionally, I was responsible for utilizing Excel, OneNote, SharePoint, and many other Microsoft systems to ensure workflow of the department was sustained and employee records were accurately kept.

Key Accomplishments:

• Quickly promoted from my entry level position to leadership role in my department within 1 calendar year.
• Successfully trained and orientated new employees to the department utilizing predetermined standards of work.

Interpreted cardiac rhythms on telemetry; Notifying necessary staff of any events that may occur with a patient’s cardiac rhythm, their heart rate or oxygen saturation. This data was interpreted in real time for patients across the Corewell Health Hospital Group.

Key Job Functions

• Ensured accurate patient records were being kept in Epic while also ensuring patients had proper orders for the care they were receiving.
• Observe patients utilizing AvaSys video monitoring technology; the primary goal of this was to ensure patient safety when staff could not be present.

• Serve on a fill in basis for K-12 teachers throughout the Kent Intermediate School District after gaining necessary state certifications and passing competency examinations.
• Had the opportunity to work with students and help advance their education; at times also execute full teaching plans at the discretion of the instructor.
• Served as Head Basketball Coach for 7th & 8th Graders and HS students at Comstock Park High School. Responsibilities included organizing tryouts, leading practices, securing transportation along with coordination and ensuring students were academically successful and remained safe during competition.