Nurse Manager

Responsibilities

Fremont Hospital is looking for a dynamic Nurse Manager. The Nurse Manager is responsible for ensuring coordinated delivery of patient care in accordance with established standards of care, mental health practice, and hospital policy, goals and objectives. The role assists in contributing to the hospital's philosophy and performance & improvement efforts while providing supervision to the nursing staff assigned to their unit.

• Provides supervision to the nursing staff and acts as a resource for hospital policies and procedures.
• Participates in the facility's Performance Improvement Program.
• Acts as the patient's advocate and ensures that patient rights are upheld.
• Acts as a behavioral model of clinical and procedural expertise to other staff members through demonstration, teaching and mutual consultation.
• Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.
• Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff. Completes patient‑care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results.
• Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem‑solving methods. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Education: Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing required, Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience in psychiatric nursing management.
• Experience: Three (3) years experience in a psychiatric health‑care facility preferred.
• Licensure: Current license to practice by the State Board of Nursing and in good standing.
• Additional Requirements: Thorough knowledge of TJC, CMS, OSHA requirements, and state and federal regulatory requirements; CPR (AED) certification obtained prior to completion of orientation.

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Tuition Assistance
• Career development opportunities across UHS and our 300+ locations!
• Health Stream online learning catalogue with plenty of free CEU courses
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan

Fremont Hospital is a fully accredited, 148‑bed private inpatient psychiatric hospital providing quality care for adolescents, adults and seniors. Dedicated to hope, healing and recovery, it works to transform the delivery of healthcare and is located in the Fremont medical community, easily accessible to Bay Area residents. The facility offers a continuum of services through assessments, inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs.

Commuting to Fremont Hospital is easy – it is conveniently located near public transportation options such as AC Transit, BART, and the ACE Train.

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