Children's Behavioral Health Nursing Director

Job Description

This position provides leadership, clinical and operational direction to Children’s Behavioral Health and Primary Children’s. This position is the senior nursing leader for Children’s Behavioral Health and Primary Children’s Hospital
- Taylorsville (behavioral health campus).

Responsibilities include:

ensure optimal patient care, financial goals, and leadership development. The role has system level accountability in the Children’s Behavioral Health service line. The role has operational responsibility for 3 pediatric behavioral health inpatient units, with a total of 66 beds at 3 hospitals. In addition, this role leads a team of Nursing House Supervisors at Primary Children’s
- Taylorsville campus, and nursing across the care continuum of pediatric behavioral health services. This role reports to the Hospital President for Primary Children’s Taylorsville campus & Children’s Behavioral Health, with a dotted line to the Children’s Health Chief Nursing Officer. Job duties are distributed as follows: 20% Tactical (staffing, equipment, employee relations), 50% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, process improvement, performance evaluations & employee accountability to key performance indicators), and 30% Strategic (developing goals and future growth and development plans).

This role’s home work location is Primary Children’s
- Taylorsville campus, with regular on-site work at other children’s behavioral health locations as well.

• Champions the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards.
• Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level.
• Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit. Provides resources effectively for department managers to meet financial goals of department.
• Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
• Ensures competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
• Accountable for the implementation of clinical program protocols, and that ongoing monitoring and process improvement occurs to assure goals are achieved.
• Collaborates with medical director and system colleagues in the development and implementation of clinical program goals.
• Evaluates staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews.
• Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit specific accrediting and certifying bodies.
• Facilitates use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles.
• Serves as an exemplary figure for employees within all facets of providing patient care.
• Monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes.
• Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
• Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

• Leadership
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Financial acumen
• Clinical knowledge
• Resource management
• Patient safety
• Mentorship
• Community outreach

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
• Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
• Leadership/supervisory experience.
• 3 years of management experience and 2 years of clinical experience.