Head Nurse; Correctional Facility

Introduction

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This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position on first shift. Schedule is Monday-Friday between 6:00am and 2:00pm.

• Contributes to nursing operational standards by providing feedback to Health Services Nursing and Addiction Services leadership; supports implementation of productivity, quality, and service standards; identifies and helps resolve system challenges.
• Serves as primary liaison for internal and external multidisciplinary teams; participates in and reports on program activities during interdisciplinary meetings.
• Identifies offender needs through professional engagement and coordination with custody, health services, addiction services, and community partners.
• Collaborates with Nursing Leadership to maintain and update nursing guidelines, practices, and procedures.
• Ensures quality of care by applying nursing standards, regulatory requirements, and agency policies; evaluates health outcomes and recommends improvements.
• Oversees detox nursing care by monitoring staff performance and clinical practices.
• Provides information and support to offenders and staff; participates in the grievance response process.
• Protects confidentiality and ensures secure handling of offender health information.
• Audits documentation and records to ensure accurate, complete, and compliant patient care records.
• Prepares reports, data summaries, and documentation required by leadership.
• Manages detox nursing supply inventory, including oversight of MOUD medication ordering and tracking (e.g., Methadone, Suboxone).
• Assigns caseloads and provides oversight to Detox Nurses.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The Connecticut Department of Correction is looking to hire a Head Nurse at the York Correctional Institution in East Lyme, CT.

Our Mission:
The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction shall strive to be a global leader in progressive correctional practices and partnered re-entry initiatives to support responsive evidence-based practices aligned to law‑abiding and accountable behaviors. Safe and security shall be a priority component of this responsibility as it pertains to staff, victims, citizens and offenders.

The York Correctional Institution is a high‑security facility. It serves as the state's only institution for female offenders. It serves all superior courts in Connecticut and manages all pretrial and sentenced female offenders, whatever their security level. The programming units at the facility have an extensive array of positive interventions for the population, including the 80‑bed intensive, inpatient drug treatment unit, the Marilyn Baker House.

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In a Department of Correction facility this class is accountable for the supervision and administration of an assigned nursing, mental health or related specialty unit including the direction and coordination of staff in order to ensure that the highest quality of nursing and/or mental health care is provided for the inmate population.

• Leads planning of care and implementation of nursing process;
• Coordinates nursing and/or mental health unit workflow;
• Determines priorities;
• Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work;
• Establishes and maintains unit procedures;
• Identifies staff development needs;
• Provides staff training and assistance;
• Conducts or assists in conducting performance evaluations;
• Ensures controlled drugs are properly stored, administered and ordered;
• Leads professional and paraprofessional nursing staff in provision of inmate general and mental health care;
• Instruc…