Director of Nursing

Job Summary

The Director of Nursing collaborates with members of the Senior Leadership Team and program leadership to provide organization-wide leadership, coordination, and oversight of nursing services across all Center programs. They ensure nursing services are delivered safely, effectively, and in accordance with professional standards of nursing practice, organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and applicable accreditation and CCBHC standards.

• Provide leadership and support to nursing staff to promote high-quality, client-centered care that maximizes recovery, rehabilitation, health, wellness, and community integration. Serve as a clinical and operational resource to nursing staff, providing consultation, supervision, coaching, education, competency evaluation, and support with complex clinical and operational issues.
• Assess nursing staffing needs across programs and ensure adequate nursing coverage to meet client and program needs. Provide direct nursing coverage and/or coordinate nursing resources when necessary to address vacancies, callouts, leaves, or other nursing shortages and to maintain continuity and safety of care.
• Provide oversight of Nurse Educator role including training, supervision, and preceptorship to novice and newly hired nurses. Work collaboratively to identify nursing education and competency needs throughout the Center and develop, coordinate, and/or provide necessary training.
• Direct and oversee day-to-day nursing practices across the Center. Collaborate with Program Managers, Directors, Team Leaders, and other leadership to ensure nursing services meet client and program needs and comply with Center policies, professional nursing standards, BHDDH requirements, CCBHC requirements, accreditation standards, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Provide organization-wide leadership to promote safe, effective, and compliant nursing practice, including medication management, medication administration and supervision, clinical documentation, infection prevention, nursing assessment, care coordination, and other nursing functions.
• Monitor nursing staffing and coverage across programs and work collaboratively with program leadership to address staffing gaps. Provide direct nursing coverage or deploy available nursing resources when needed to address nursing shortages and ensure safe staffing, continuity of care, and essential nursing and medication-related services.
• Serve as a primary clinical and operational resource for nursing staff. Support nurses in addressing clinical concerns, medication-related issues, client crises, workflow challenges, regulatory requirements, and other issues affecting the safe delivery of nursing care.
• Provide ongoing individual and group supervision, consultation, coaching, and professional development to nursing staff. Promote a supportive environment that strengthens clinical judgment, accountability, professional growth, and nursing practice.
• Lead the clinical and therapeutic orientation of nursing services in a manner that supports a holistic, client-centered approach emphasizing recovery, rehabilitation, health, wellness, and community integration. Develop and implement criteria and measures to evaluate nursing services and provide outcomes and feedback.
• Maintain effective communication and productive interdisciplinary collaboration through regularly scheduled meetings, supervision, peer review, and consultation with Program Directors, Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors, prescribers, and other clinical disciplines.
• Provide ongoing evaluation and assessment of the quality, safety, and effectiveness of psychiatric and behavioral health nursing practice. Develop and implement corrective actions, education, or performance improvement initiatives when opportunities for improvement are identified.
• Oversee medication management practices across programs to ensure medications are stored, handled, administered, supervised, documented, reconciled, and managed safely and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, organizational policies, and professional standards.
• Develop, implement, review, and maintain nursing and medication management policies and procedures designed to promote safety, accuracy, efficiency, consistency, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide oversight to the Quality Improvement Nurse (QIRN) in monitoring medication errors, adverse medication events, infection rates, and other nursing quality and safety indicators. In…