Job Description:
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About the Role:
The Director of Nursing is responsible for overseeing the management of nursing staff in the Clinical division. This includes assuming authority, responsibility, and accountability for delivering nursing services. The role involves direct supervision of nursing staff, coordination of patient medical care, and collaboration with other departments to ensure timely, appropriate, and high-quality care.
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Key Responsibilities:
Leads subordinate nursing staff in delivering excellent client care and provides quality support to medical staff. Monitors completion of medical support and nursing staff assignments, identifies lags in daily flow, and intervenes as necessary to improve efficiency. Maintains and/or improves levels of productivity set by administration and needs of clients. Interviews, hires, fires, disciplines, provides in-service orientation, trains, and completes competency evaluations for agency nursing staff.
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Nursing Supervision:
Supervises care provided by nursing staff (RNs and LPNs) to ensure conformance with regulations, current competency, and best practice standards. Provides medication administration training and competency evaluation for agency's Health Care Coordinators. Instructs and evaluates competency of nursing staff and Health Care Coordinators.
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Patient Care and Support:
Provides direct patient care as needed. Assists physicians by identifying, reporting, and addressing changes in patient health status. Demonstrates knowledge of and application of key Clinical Indicators and proactively monitors and implements systems to achieve and surpass agency thresholds. Communicates daily with clinical staff to identify client needs and incorporates them into daily work schedules.
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Qualifications:
BLS Certification required. Graduate of an accredited program for Registered Nurse with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. Minimum Five (5) years supervisory nursing experience, including Three (3) years hospital, substance use or other behavior healthcare organization supervisory nursing experience. Possession of strong time management, writing, and communication skills. Strong knowledge of NY State regulations. Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient records. Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
Team player and ability to work independently. Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills; ability to supervise, coach, mentor, develop, train, and teach nurses, substance use providers/other clinical discipline providers. Ability to implement and monitor policy and procedure in accordance with agency guidelines. Knowledge of Federal and state law/regulation governing substance abuse treatment, including confidentiality, security, and privacy of protected health information.