Divisional Director of Nursing Services

Divisional Director of Nursing Services - Behavioral Health Division - Western Region

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 300 corporation, annual revenues were $15.8 billion in 2024. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune;

and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 99,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

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The Candidate that is chosen will support a large portfolio of facilities from the western and mid-western regions of the UHS Behavioral Health Division.

This exciting position is critical to the clinical integrity and compliance of our facilities. As a corporate senior leader, you will support, train, and consult your facilities’ clinical teams and staff. We are seeking a clinical nursing professional that is interested in sharing his/her expertise in a consultative manner to ensure the success of the Behavioral Health Division.

Travel in this role can be extensive, as up to 80-85% of your time will be traveling to and supporting our facilities.

Role Highlights Include:

• Responsible for the oversight of nursing services specifically standards of care and practice as it relates to Children and Adolescent Services
• Facilitates and coordinates a review of all nursing related standards of care to ensure that all nursing processes are current and compliant with state and federal nursing standards of practice.
• Develops training material for orientation of nursing leaders and training opportunities related to nursing care and practice
• Assures that the facility is compliant with all regulations pertaining to nursing, staffing, medication management and infection control on a federal, state and local level
• Sets expectations, develops plans, and manages processes to assess measure and improve the quality of nursing care.
• Seeks methods to improve current nursing practices by advocating the use of evidence-based practices. Assists in the identification of high risk, problem prone nursing issues and proposes solutions to address these systems practices.
• May be asked to investigate, in collaboration with the hospital any nursing quality concerns such as those received from the state and federal agencies. Assists in preparing in collaboration with appropriate nursing and hospital personnel responses and plans of correction as necessary within designated time frame.
• Conducts analysis of staffing plans to ensure local staffing grids are appropriate to the population in treatment and to support nurse retention.
• Collaborates with CEOs, Group Directors and VPs on any identified nursing related issues and offers plans for correction as required.

Total Rewards for our Senior Leaders include:

• Paid Holidays
• Tuition savings to continue your nursing education with Chamberlain University
• In-house Psychiatric Nurse Residency Transition-to-Practice Orientation (20 CEUs)
• Career development opportunities across UHS and our 300+ locations!
• Diverse programming to expand your experience
• 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
• Pet Insurance
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:

If you would like to learn more before applying, please contact Scott Errickson, Divisional Director - Clinical Recruitment at  and by phone at .

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