Assistant Nurse Manager - Nurse III - Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (S. Denver)

State of Colorado; Colorado; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse to join their team at a state hospital. This role involves supervising nursing staff, coordinating patient care, and ensuring high-quality service delivery. You will lead a team in a supportive environment focused on recovery and patient-centered care. With a commitment to professional development and collaboration, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in the lives of individuals with mental health challenges. If you are passionate about nursing and want to be part of a mission-driven organization, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Health and Dental Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Paid Holidays

Flexible Schedules

Employee Wellness Program

Training and Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Current, valid licensure as a Registered Nurse from Colorado or eNLC.
• Three years of professional experience in nursing or related field.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care with nursing staff and other disciplines.
• Assure adequate staff coverage and provide clinical leadership.
• Respond to psychiatric and medical emergencies effectively.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Patient Care Coordination

Crisis Management

Staff Development

Documentation Skills

Education

Registered Nurse License

3 years of professional experience

Job description

This position has a residency waiver and will be accepting applications from residents and non-residents of Colorado. This announcement is open to potential candidates who are legal residents of the United States. All legal residents of the United States are eligible to apply and compete. If appointed to a position, applicants from outside of Colorado will be required to relocate to Colorado prior to their start date, at their own expense.

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details!

About Fort Logan

The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan (CMHIFL) is one of two state hospitals serving our community. The vision of CMHIFL is to provide the highest quality mental health services to persons with complex, serious, and persistent mental illness within the resources available. Our mission is to support those individuals in achieving their recovery goals and reaching their full potential. CMHIFL provides inpatient treatment to adult patients, generally between 18-59. The hospital currently has 138 adult inpatient beds, and over six treatment milieus serving civil and forensic individuals. Medical services, occupational therapy, neuropsychological-rehabilitation services, and trauma-informed care services are available for all patients throughout the hospital.

Through our core values listed below, CMHIFL staff is committed to:
• Individual dignity and respect;
• Person-centered, evidence-based care;
• Trauma-informed recovery;
• Multidisciplinary collaboration;
• Diversity and inclusion;
• Strong family and community partnerships

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CDHSCareers

Location: 3520 W Oxford Avenue, Denver, CO 80236
Full-Time, On-Site

G-Wing Unit

This position exists to provide supervision, clinical/administrative nursing consultation, and direction to registered nurses and nursing assistive personnel on the assigned shift to assure the delivery of quality patient care through the nursing process per the nursing and hospital-wide standards. Responsible for maintaining safe, adequate coverage for the inpatient units on the assigned shift. Serves as a resource or guide by advising others on how to use processes within a system or as a member of a collaborative problem-solving team.

Primary Job Duties

Supervision and Coordination of Patient Care:

• Coordinates patient care in collaboration with nursing staff and other disciplines.
• Directs and consults with other RN III’s and subordinate staff in their provision of patient care.
• Provides support for the delivery of patient care and provides clinical leadership.
• Assures the provision of adequate staff coverage across the hospital on off-hour shifts.
• Makes frequent rounds to each of the inpatient units and dining areas. Covers on units when necessary.
• Reassigns staff to other units when the situation dictates.
• Obtains coverage for call-offs or when additional staffing is required due to acuity.
• Communicate with multiple departments, such as dietary, operator, lab, hospital security, and housekeeping.
• Functions as a liaison between off-hour nursing staff and nursing service administration and communicates incidents, injuries, and critical incidents to nursing and hospital administration.
• Participates in staff meetings and hospital/nursing committees.
• Assist staff in handling complications about off-hour admissions.
• May escort patients to activities and appointments on the grounds and in the community, including driving patients to appointments.
• Assumes responsibility for paperwork, assuring confidentiality.

Staff Supervision and Staff Development:

• Promotes staff development and training at shift level by supporting staff compliance with hospital-wide mandatory training, (i.e., CPR, infection control, safety, medication review, and seclusion/restraint), attending Code Blue events and drills, fire drills, and in-services.
• Assures ongoing assessment of staff training needs and provides in-the-moment training as needed.
• Coordinates with Nurse Managers to provide employee orientation to new staff.
• Provide direct supervision for 4-8 internal float pool staff.
• Participates in job interviews and provides input into decisions about hiring staff.
• Monitors for compliance with standards of nursing practice and standards of patient care.
• Monitors staff performance, coaching and counseling, and performance management reviews.

Responds and Provides Leadership in Emergency Situations:

• Assumes leadership role in crises.
• Respond immediately to all psychiatric and medical emergencies, i.e., Code Blue, accidents, injuries, fires, and all other disasters.
• Proactively identifies the potential impact of non-routine or non-predictable events on the usual routine, i.e., suicide attempts, serious assaults, admissions, or discharges, and makes changes to address these events safely and appropriately.
• Oversee the utilization and appropriate implementation of seclusion/restraint, emergency medications, etc.
• Notifies appropriate personnel of incidents, injuries, etc.
• Assists staff in handling angry or impaired visitors.

Monitors Quality of Patient Care:

• Monitors for quality care, assuring the delivery of patient care according to nursing, hospital, and accreditation standards.
• Complete specific quality improvement monitors/audits for the Nursing Service office.
• Keep staff informed of changes in hospital and division policies.

Document reports and maintain records:

• Ensures iNotify documentation is completed and documentation of the incident is in the patient’s medical records as needed.
• Transcribe physician’s orders, give shift reports, and chart medication and their effectiveness when providing coverage on the team.
• Complete the Off-hour Nursing Supervision report for each shift worked, assuring that the report is sent to Hospital Management and other staff, as indicated.

Maintains Skills/Competency:

• Maintains updated skills, knowledge, abilities, and competencies necessary to the position through continuing education, clinical supervision, clinical/administrative supervision, and literature review to ensure that nursing practice is evidence-based, best practice, and within the standards of professional nursing practice.

Other duties as assigned:

• May need to cover for nurses on treatment teams.
• Other duties as assigned for this position.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:

Current, valid licensure as a Registered Nurse from the Colorado Board of Nursing or any state participating in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) Three (3) years of professional experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position

Substitutions

Appropriate education will substitute for up to two (2) years of the required experience on a year-for-year basis

Special Qualification:
Maintains active and unencumbered Colorado Registered Nurse License


Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in long-term care or assisted living facility; experience with staff development.

• Experience as a supervisor

• Experience working with individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities;

• Experience working with individuals with mental health diagnoses.

• Experience multi-tasking and prioritizing assignments;

• Caring, supportive, accountable leader;

• Willing to work on an interdisciplinary team and problem-solve solutions to improve services.

Conditions of Employment:

• Must possess a valid, unrestricted US Driver's License.
• CDHS employees (all Direct contact with vulnerable persons): CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference
  Checks, Professional License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, PREA (Division of Youth Services), Trails check (direct contact with children), CAPS (direct contact with adults – Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers, Veterans Community Living Centers)
• Shift Work: May work days, evenings and nights
• Use, Handling, or Exposure to hazardous materials: May be exposed to bodily fluids or caustic chemicals
• Travel: May need to travel to other state locations; transport patients to appointments within the community
• Special Qualifications – Explain: Maintains active and unencumbered Colorado Registered Nurse License. *Due to the juvenile population served at the MHI facilities, incumbents of this position must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must maintain a current CPR Card and perform CPR adequate compressions and ventilations per CPR guidelines.
• This position is "Essential Service Designation": you will be required to report without delay or interruption to provide essential or emergency services to ensure health, safety, and welfare.
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position, (3) provide the employee number from the applicant’s prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email ([e-mail]), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go tospb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at [phone]; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, atspb.colorado.govunder Rules.

How to Apply

The Assessment Process

For additional recruiting questions, please contact [e-mail]

About Us:

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of theColorado Department of Human Services(CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including aPERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Planwww.copera.orgplus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplementedHealth Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHubstate employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program

• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

*Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more

information, go tohttps://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs.

Our Values:

We believe in a people-first approach:To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.

Balance creates quality of life:We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

We hold ourselves accountable:We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

Transparency matters:We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

We are ethical:We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

Collaboration helps us rise together:We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

ADAA Accommodations:CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at [e-mail] or call 1-800-929-0791.

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