Director-Nursing - Recovery

Summit BHC; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Summit BHC is seeking a Director of Nursing for Twin Lakes Recovery Center in Monroe, GA. The role leads the nursing department, ensures safe delivery of behavioral health services, and aligns policies with regulatory standards.

The position requires RN licensure, 3+ years nursing practice with psychiatric/behavioral health experience, and strong leadership in staffing and budgeting to maintain high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in psychiatric or mental health nursing preferred.
• RN license in state or compact state.
• 3+ years nursing practice experience; 1+ year psychiatric/behavioral health experience.
• Assessment skills and knowledge of nursing principles, staffing, budgeting, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Sets the vision for nursing practice and manages daily operations of nursing services.
• Collaborates with department and corporate leaders to address priority issues.
• Communicates instructions, expectations and timelines clearly.
• Develops and maintains nursing policies and procedures compliant with standard practice and regulations.
• Manages staffing based on client acuity and census, ensuring adequate staffing and controlling overtime.
• Leads and develops nursing staff through hiring, orientation, performance management, and coaching.
• Oversees medication management and ensures compliance with medication practices and reporting.
• Audits medication rooms and maintains regulatory compliance; reconciles medication reports.
• Provides nursing diagnoses, treatment planning, and coordinates services with other departments.
• Participates in management meetings to discuss client status and regulatory matters.
• Establishes infection control and safety programs; reviews surveillance reports.

Skills

Assessment skills

Nursing principles knowledge

Staffing

Budgeting

Employee management

Regulatory compliance

Documentation

Education

Nursing degree (RN)

Psychiatric/mental health nursing focus

Job description

Director-Nursing - Recovery | Twin Lakes Recovery Center | Monroe, Georgia

About the Job:

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

The Director of Nursing is responsible and accountable for providing professional nursing care to clients. Directs, plans, coordinates, monitors and supervises the effective and efficient use of the operations of nursing and the safe delivery of behavioral health/nursing services with a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude. Ensures the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, programs, and services consistent with the facility’s strategic goals and objectives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Sets the vision for nursing practice in the delivery of safe, timely, efficient, equitable and client centered care. Manages the daily operations of nursing services.
• Identifies and prioritizes issues of importance, including those priority issues as set by leadership. Collaborates with department leaders and corporate leaders, as needed.
• Communicates instructions, expectations and timelines clearly and concisely.
• Develops, maintains and implements nursing services, policies and procedures that conform to current standards of nursing practice and accrediting agencies, facility philosophy and operational policies while maintaining compliance with state, federal and local governmental agencies laws and regulations.
• Develops and interprets operational indicators to detect census and acuity changes and increases or decreases in volume that could impact staffing levels, revenues or expenses. Acts to correct undesirable trends. Allocates nursing resources based on measurement of client acuity/care needed.
• Leads a team of highly qualified and engaged department members thru hiring, orienting, performance assessment and management, motivating, training, scheduling, and coaching to meet department and facility goals. Ensures adequate staffing.
• Maintains productivity levels that are aligned with client census, curtailing unnecessary overtime and/or excessive staff work hours.
• Manages staff scheduling and maintains an updated plan for contingency staffing.
• Maintains accountability expectations for self and staff in all areas of job performance.
• Engages staff in quality and safety basics to ensure sustained, measurable compliance.
• Identifies staff educational needs and ensures they are addressed with education programs that are attended by staff.
• Holds staff accountable for non-compliance and client safety concerns, as well as attendance, following policies, behavior, and adherence to code of conduct.
• Oversees medication management for the facility. Orders and maintains adequate inventory of medication. Ensures compliance with medication management standards and record keeping. Implements corrective actions based on pharmacy consultant inspection of medication rooms and medication management processes. Reviews and reconciles medication reports in collaboration with the pharmacy vendor.
• Audits and organizes medication room to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, best practices, and reduce the opportunity for medication errors or diversion.
• Makes nursing diagnosis of the medical and emotional status of clients and recommends treatment options. Consults with psychiatrists and other behavioral health staff in designing appropriate treatment plans for clients. Provides overall supervision of client assessments and care plans. Coordinates nursing services with all other departments.
• Participates in daily or weekly management team meetings to discuss client’s status, identify indicators for reassessment of client’s condition, reaction/responsiveness and involvement of other disciplines. Discusses census changes, client or staff complaints or concerns.
• Establishes, implements and oversees the infection control program and safety. Prepares or reviews infection control surveillance reports to identify trends and to develop effective actions to control and prevent infections.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary treatment teams, other departments and administration to ensure that all client’s physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met.
• Develops and implements health care related training that assures the best possible delivery of health-related supports and services.
• Assists the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in the preparation and administration of the organization’s budget. Manages budget and operates within approved budget while providing excellent quality of care. Actively participate in strategic planning and budget development.
• Maintains adequate and appropriate inventory of supplies and equipment for the provision of client services.
• Oversees the maintenance of client clinical records, statistics, reports and records for purposes of evaluation and reporting of organization activities.
• Stays informed about changes in the field of nursing and behavioral health care and uses information to stay compliant and improve performance.
• Assists CEO in preparing staff for inspection survey. Participates in the preparation and implementation of the Plan of Correction response to an inspection survey.
• Monitors unit/floor functioning by making frequent rounds. Intervenes in crisis situations and investigates incidents. Analyzes, reviews and completes follow up on incident reports related to nursing/client safety issues in conjunction with Risk Management.
• May be required to provide onsite coverage for other programs when needed, develops, and executes new programs according to market needs and may provide training, case consultation and Administrator On Call coverage during and after program hours as needed.
• Performs Leadership Rounds as assigned to include observation and immediate identification of environment of care, safety, and infection control concerns, as well as real time education of new facility processes.
• Assumes client care assignment in emergency situations as needed.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in psychiatric or mental health nursing preferred.
• If not MSN, you must enter into a nursing consultation agreement with a master’s level nurse for supervision per state requirement.
• Three or more years’ experience in nursing practice required. One or more years’ psychiatric or behavioral health experience required.
• Skills in assessment, considerable knowledge of nursing principles and practice, staffing, budgeting, employee management, regulatory requirements and documentation of care; ability to meet regulatory requirements.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Valid current RN license from the state or from a compact state, where applicable.
• Certified in Psychiatric Nursing preferred.
• CPR certification and de-escalation training required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility.

WORK LOCATION:

This position is onsite at the facility and is not a remote position.

SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS:

Two or more years progressive managerial experience required.

Why Twin Lakes Recovery Center?

Twin Lakes Recovery Center offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Twin Lakes Recovery Center is an EOE.

Summit BHC is dedicated to serving Veterans with specialized programming at our treatment centers across the country. We recognize and value the unique strengths of the military community in supporting our mission to serve those who have served.