Nurse Manager

Description

Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday, 1:00pm - 9:00pm

Who We Are:

The Smoky Mountain Lodge at Pasadena Villa is a residential psychiatric treatment center in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Our compassionate, dedicated staff fosters an environment of healing. By providing treatment for the full spectrum of mental health disorders, we ensure that clients are well prepared for life after treatment.

What We Offer:

•        Collaborative environment dedicated to clinical excellence
•        Multiple Career Development Pathways
•        Company Supported Continuing Education & Certification
•        PPO & HDHP Health Plan Options
•        Flexible Dental & Vision Plan Options
•        100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
•        100% Company Paid Critical Illness (with health enrollment plan)
•        100% Company Paid Life & ADD
•        401K with Company Match
•        Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax Savings Accounts
•        Generous Team Member Referral Program
•        Parental Leave

How You Will Contribute:

The Nurse Manager is responsible for coordinating along with the Director of Nursing (DON) in the supervision, oversight, and operations of the nursing department and staff, ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment. The Nurse Manager provides direct client care, takes physician orders, prepares, administers resident medications, and coordinates outside diagnostic or medical services as ordered by the physician.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Maintains frequent and close working relationships with the facility Executive Director, National Director of Admissions, Nursing team, Milieu Supervisor, facility leadership, and Psychiatric Technicians.

Outside the organization: May initiate and maintain working relationships with clinical providers, referral partners, clients and vendors as needed and directed.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and supervision to the nursing team, to include hiring, training, coaching, scheduling, and performance management.
• Supervises Nursing staff, ensuring adequate shift coverage, and oversees both the Stables Medication Program and the PHP medication program.
• Provides medication management oversite ensuring an accurate accounting of medication charting/procedures/training for all nursing staff.
• Manages the nursing area in collaboration with the Director of Nursing ensuring medications are secured at all times.
• Ensures all admission/discharge nursing duties are conducted and documented within required timeframes.
• Works closely with vendors and contractors providing clinical services (i.e., pharmacy, lab, biohazard pick up, etc.) ensuring proper communication and procedures are followed; provides account management.
• Ensures effective communication and collaboration between medical/nursing staff, medical vendors, and direct care team.
• Oversees daily vital signs, glucose monitoring, lab specimen collection and follow up, medication distribution, and documentation.
• Oversees medical issues daily and reports through appropriate channels, as needed.
• Takes medication orders from MD/NP conducts daily medication order follow up, and orders medication ensuring proper delivery from pharmacy.
• Maintains medical supply inventory and places supply orders, as needed.
• Ensures all admission/discharge nursing duties are conducted and documented within required timeframes.
• Provides medication management and oversite ensuring accurate accounting of medication charting/procedures/training for all nursing staff.
• Maintains biohazard accounts and procedures, ensuring team members are trained on and adhere to infection control procedures.
• Oversees all pharmacy paperwork/forms-includes controlled substances.
• Provides direct nursing care to clients throughout the treatment period.
• Completes comprehensive nursing assessments and assists in the development of a treatment plan, to include suicide risk assessments.
• Performs daily vital signs, glucose monitoring, lab specimen collection and follow up, medication distribution, and documentation.
• Coordinates external client medical appointments with team members.
• Engages therapeutically with clients in the milieu.
• Monitors labs/EKGs/other tests and communicating results with medical providers.
• Works with insurance companies on patient medications, completes insurance forms, and calls as needed.
• Participates in treatment team meetings and discussions contributing to the therapeutic care of each client.

Qualifications

What We’re Seeking:

• Position requires a bachelor’s degree in nursing, active state Registered Nurse license, and 5 years of experience Nursing/Clinical Experience. Previous mental health treatment experience strongly preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver’s license, vehicle insurance and acceptable driving record.
• Clearance of criminal background, TB test, and any other mandatory state/federal requirements.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification

Pasadena Villa provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Pasadena Villa reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires.  This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise.  The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”  

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