Supervisor of Nurses

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, and correctional health services. We are a home care agency and a health plan, Metro Plus. Our health system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs.

Our diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees are uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is one of the nation’s leading correctional health care systems in quality of and innovations to care, and access from pre-arraignment through compassionate release. In-jail services include medical, nursing, mental health, substance use treatment, social work, dental and vision care, discharge planning, and reentry support. In addition to providing direct patient care in the jails, CHS leverages the resources of the nation’s largest municipal health care system to help discharged patients successfully return to their communities.

CHS is also a pivotal partner in New York City’s criminal justice reform efforts.

On Site Director of Nursing

Deputy Director of Nursing

The Patient Care Coordinator (PCC)/Supervisor of Nurses (SON diagnosis and treats human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as data collection,

physical assessment, case-finding, health teaching, health counseling

and provision of care supportive to /or restorative of life and well-being as data collection, physical assessment, health teaching, health counseling, and provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being and executing medical regimens prescribed by a licensed physician, dentist or other health care provider legally authorized under this title and in accordance with the commissioner’s regulation.

Under the guidance of the On-Site Director of Nursing (OS-DON), the Patient Care Coordinator/Supervisor of Nurses is responsible for directing and administering nursing care to patients. He/she coordinates activities through collaboration with physicians, administration, pharmacy, clerical, and correctional staff, etc.

He/she is guided by a thorough knowledge of principles of nursing based on biological, physical, and psychosocial sciences. He/she possesses a working knowledge of principles of leadership and utilizes that knowledge in guiding and directing nursing staff.

He/she assists the OS- DON in ensuring compliance with standards, policies and procedures of NYC Health and Hospital Corporation Correctional Health Services contracted with Prison Health Services, Inc. and the Department of Nursing. He/she will be working with adult male and females between sixteen to eighty and infants from birth to one year of age.

• Provides direct patient care as necessary. Using the problem-oriented progress notes, written to match each problem documented on the Problem List and organized using the SOAP format.
• Coordinates the nursing care provided for patients within a given unit by:
• Assigning appropriate nursing staff for patient care activities such as admissions, sick call, treatments, medications, punitive segregation rounds, follow-up, etc. Problems in staffing must be communicated to the On-Site Director of Nursing.
• Utilize therapeutic communication skills and effective interviewing techniques to elicit pertinent historical information and to make appropriate referrals as required. Screen patients with mental health problems in an immediate manner and makes appropriate referral as required.
• Making rounds to patient care areas for the purposes of assessing,…