Nurse Manager - Treatment Center

Bay Cove Human Services’ mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. Bay Cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges associated with developmental disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorders, and homelessness at more than 175 program sites throughout Greater Boston and southeastern Massachusetts.

As a member of the leadership team for the Treatment Center, the Nurse Manager works on site at the Treatment Center to ensure nursing coverage to support medication dispensing and the monitoring of symptoms, provide supervision and oversight to the nurses, and ensure compliance to DEA, DPH/BSAS regulations and certification standards. The Nurse Manager contributes to the Bay Cove’s mission by ensuring quality care is provided to individuals on their recovery journey.

This is an exempt position. The schedule is Monday-Friday 8am-4pm.

• Recruit, build, and maintain a team of talented nurses and schedule nurses to ensure on-site nursing coverage to support medication dispensing and monitoring of symptoms.
• Manage all nursing operations, including the provision of quality of patient care, including troubleshooting and problem solving factors resulting in service disruptions to ensure continuous operations.
• Provide all Treatment Center staff with training regarding changes to, and updates on, all medical aspects of substance use, withdrawal management, and behavioral health diagnoses and train all Nurses on nursing policies, procedures, and practices to ensure competency and consistency.
• Collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Director, Psych Consultant, program leadership, and the Director of Operations to develop and revise policies, procedures, and clinical protocols.
• Lead the nursing staff to work collaboratively with clinical and administrative staff to support the daily physical and health care needs of patients in the program.
• Monitor compliance with nursing and medication budget, including staffing, scheduling, productivity analysis, and supply costs.
• Provide nursing leadership in staff, supervision, and multidisciplinary meetings, as well as in individual and group supervision, training, and professional development activities.
• Adhere to DEA and all state and federal regulations regarding the use of controlled substances in the program at all times and be available for DEA and State representatives during site visits and other licensing or accreditation bodies as needed.
• Perform dispensing nurse duties directly as needed to meet the needs of patients, including conducting clinical assessments for opioid medication dispensing, preparation of take-home medications, and providing health education.
• Assume leadership of the clinic by providing crisis assessment, prevention, and needed intervention to address medical, behavioral, and safety issues that arise.
• Provide on-call coverage, including 24 hour dose verification, on a rotating basis with the Assistant Nurse Manager.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

All BSAS licensed programs must have at least one staff member designated to serve as coordinator of one of the following three topics. If assigned, both supervisor and employee must initial to acknowledge the assignment:

• Serve as the program’s Access Coordinator by developing and implementing the evaluation, plan, and annual review of the program’s performance in ensuring equitable access to services as required by 105 CMR 164.040(A)(11).
• Serve as the program’s HIV/AIDS Coordinator by overseeing confidential HIV risk assessment and access to counseling and testing; staff, patient, and resident HIV/AIDS and hepatitis…