Nursing Director — Community-Based Health & Equity

WEA CA PC; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellness Equity Alliance seeks a Director of Nursing to provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for nursing across its community-based healthcare programs in Southern California. This role reports to the Chief Medical Officer and oversees street medicine, behavioral health, crisis services, care management, and mobile/community-based care delivery models.

The DoN will develop workflows, staffing models, quality initiatives, and training to support trauma-informed, equity-centered

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing.
• Current California nursing license.
• Minimum of 10 years of nursing experience, with at least 3 years in a management role.
• Must possess active BLS certifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for nursing services across WEA clinical programs, including street medicine, behavioral health, crisis services, care management, and mobile/community-based care delivery models.
• Oversee nursing operations across multiple program sites and regions, ensuring safe, high-quality, trauma-informed, and equity-centered patient care.
• Establish and maintain nursing workflows, staffing models, escalation pathways, and operational standards that support both field-based and clinic-based care environments.
• Serve as a key clinical operations leader in the development, implementation, and scaling of new clinical programs and service lines.
• Lead nursing operations planning and implementation for new and expanding programs, including crisis stabilization and behavioral health initiatives.
• Develop operational workflows and clinical protocols for voluntary behavioral health crisis programs, including intake/triage processes, discharge planning, observation standards, escalation procedures, and higher-level-of-care transfer coordination.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to operationalize innovative models of care that integrate medical, behavioral health, public health, and social care services.
• Develop, implement, and oversee nursing policies, procedures, and clinical practice standards in alignment with state, federal, accreditation, and organizational requirements.
• Lead nursing quality improvement and quality assurance initiatives, including clinical audits, documentation standards, patient safety practices, and performance improvement plans.
• Monitor and support regulatory compliance related to nursing practice, medication management, infection prevention, behavioral health standards, and clinical documentation.
• Partner with leadership teams to establish clinical quality metrics, reporting structures, and performance monitoring systems.
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, orientation, mentorship, and ongoing professional development for nursing staff, including RNs, LVNs/LPTs, and nurse leaders.
• Develop and implement nursing education and competency-based training programs tailored to community-based, behavioral health, and field medicine environments.
• Foster a collaborative, supportive, and accountable nursing culture focused on clinical excellence, teamwork, equity, and staff retention.
• Provide coaching, supervision, and performance management to nursing leadership and staff.
• Collaborate closely with medical providers, behavioral health clinicians, ECM teams, outreach staff, operations, and external partners to ensure coordinated, patient-centered care delivery.
• Support interdisciplinary workflow development to improve care transitions, follow-up coordination, and continuity of care for high-acuity and vulnerable populations.
• Participate in organizational planning, workflow optimization, and cross-functional operational initiatives.
• Support nursing resource planning, staffing optimization, scheduling strategies, and budget stewardship.
• Assist with vendor coordination, clinical systems implementation, and operational process improvement initiatives.
• Participate in organizational leadership meetings, strategic planning initiatives, and operational readiness efforts.
• Support emergency response, public health initiatives, and rapid program deployment efforts as needed.

Skills

Nursing leadership

BLS certification

Regulatory compliance

Trauma-informed care

Care coordination

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Master's or Doctorate in nursing or related field

Job description

Wellness Equity Alliance seeks a Director of Nursing to provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for nursing across its community-based healthcare programs in Southern California. This role reports to the Chief Medical Officer and oversees street medicine, behavioral health, crisis services, care management, and mobile/community-based care delivery models.

The DoN will develop workflows, staffing models, quality initiatives, and training to support trauma-informed, equity-centered