Chief Nursing Officer

Perimeter Behavioral Health is one of the leading mental and behavioral healthcare providers in the country. We deliver hope to our patients through comprehensive and dedicated treatment programs. Our focus and commitment to service excellence extends across several states and different care settings.

Our team ensures patients receive the high-quality, personalized care they need to overcome mental health and behavioral challenges. We offer a range of settings including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, and outpatient counseling and therapies.

Join our dedicated nursing team in making a lasting difference in the lives of adolescents and adults facing mental health challenges. As the Chief Nursing Officer, you'll provide compassionate, evidence-based nursing care while working collaboratively with our multidisciplinary treatment team.

The Chief Nursing Officer provides the leadership and strategic planning of the nursing and clinical services of the hospital. As a member of the Senior Management Team, this position ensures the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and services consistent with the facility's goals and objectives and actively participates in a leadership role by consulting facility management in designing and providing total patient care and services.

Responsibilities include the overall administrative processes and management systems for all clinical services offered at the facility, promotion and maintenance of a therapeutic environment and development and implementation of clinical treatment programs.

• Development of patient care programs, policies, and procedures that describe how patients’ needs for nursing care, treatment, and services are assessed, evaluated, and met.
• Development and implementation of the plans for providing nursing care, treatment, and services including determination of the types and numbers of nursing personnel necessary to provide nursing care.
• Development of a patient focused, team-oriented culture, working in conjunction with all other medical, clinical and therapeutic disciplines to ensure optimal service and superior outcomes.
• Development and implementation of programs enhancing a culture of safety and accountability related to all aspects of patient care.
• Supervision and coordination of nursing personnel and the delivery of nursing care on a 24-hour basis through ADONs and House Supervisors.
• Active participation as a member of the hospital’s Governing Body, Quality Council, Med Exec, Infection Control, Education, Ethics Committees.
• Implementation of effective, ongoing programs to measure, assess, and improve nursing care, treatment, and services delivered to patients.
• Integration of complex data to formulate decisions, develop programs and plans that optimize health, promote wellness, manage illness, and prevent complications or secondary disabilities.
• Implementation of Joint Commission, CMS, and State hospital standards and, in particular, the integration of rehabilitation nursing into these standards.
• Collaboration with nursing peers, the interdisciplinary team and others who influence healthcare.
• Creation of an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its mission by meeting or exceeding its goals, conveying the hospital mission to all staff, holding staff accountable for performance, motivating staff to improve performance and being responsible for the measurement, assessment and continuous improvement of the department.

• Provide services to current referral sources to assure their satisfaction and continued associations.
• Allocate and coordinate program resources for marketing and referral development activities.
• Provide education, support and recognition to staff participating in referral development activities.
• Collaborate with the Director of Business Development to develop, implement and monitor a target marketing plan for the program.
• Provide for guest relations and ensure the appearance of the facility and manner in which program staff communicate with patients, families, referral sources and fellow staff is effective and professional.
• Ensure the implementation of an ongoing system of program orientation for patients, families, professionals and others.
• Maintain an awareness of community and market-related activities which includes knowledge of the activities of other providers, needs of local payers and the political climate related to mental health.

• Evaluate Program Managers and House Supervisors regarding personnel performance and assist them in counseling nursing personnel to help them meet the prescribed goals of performance.
• Maintain and allocate a well-qualified core of staff resources.
• Assure that hiring, disciplinary actions and termination procedures are conducted in accordance with hospital policies.
• Involve appropriate facility management in all decisions and review these decisions with CEO prior to…