
Nurse Manager
- New City, NY
- $95,000-115,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage (
- Company-paid life insurance, AD&D, and short-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Paid time off
- Professional development
- And many more!
- Recruit, hire and train adequate and competent department staff.
- Monitor and evaluate all aspects of the facility medication management.
- Meet with all clients as needed to ensure best practice care, treatment and services are provided.
- Communicate as needed with pertinent outside treatment professionals and in a manner consistent with MNA processes.
- Ensure both admission and discharge processes are maintained to ensure continuity of care with respect to relevant nursing and medical issues.
- Maintain the nursing schedule as per the facility and organization needs including but not limited to managing vacation requests, sick leave, new hire, and additional staffing requirements.
- Ensuring facilitation of performance evaluations as required for all direct reports and implementing merit increases as approved by the Clinical Director.
- Produce and maintain communication which provides detailed and useful information on all current clients.
- Ensure quality nursing notes are entered for each patient every shift.
- Organize and facilitate laboratory work per provider orders.
- Ensure that an admission nursing assessment and care plan(s) for each client are complete per program policy.
- Maintain confidentiality of protected health information.
- Provide ongoing training as needed to existing nursing personnel.
- Ensure effective communication between nursing staff and collaborating disciplines.
- Ensure provider order for admission is present upon client admission to the program.
- Organize and document required monthly nursing meeting and other necessary meetings as warranted.
- Manage the maintenance of all nursing related spaces and equipment.
- Ensure proper nursing documentation is entered for each client including but not limited to daily shift notes, weekly updates, treatment plans, treatment plan updates, contact notes and discharge summaries.
- Review and document employee performance 90 days after hire, annually, and as needed per company policy.
- Manage performance improvement/disciplinary action as warranted according to policy and document performance management as required.
- Nurse Manager or designee to attend and present all necessary nursing related information in weekly staffing for all clients.
- Coordinate with providers to ensure that necessary communication and documentation is maintained; specifically relating to the ongoing medical, psychiatric, nursing and medication management of client care.
- Responsible for oversight of facility’s infection control/prevention program.
- Responsible for ensuring that there are on-call nursing staff always designated.
- Receive facility-related calls and come in for uncovered shifts when all other options have been exhausted (per-diem staff, part-time staff, full-time staff and Agency are unavailable).
- Attend Nursing Leadership calls/meetings monthly, and as needed.
- Assist with insurance issues as needed or designated by Vice President of Nursing Operations, or designee.
- Coordinate and ensure that all admission requirements are completed per organization policy.
- Ensure proper destruction / return of all medications is completed per policy and regulatory standards.
- Maintain adequate inventory and supply of necessary nursing related items in accordance with monthly operational budget.
- Assist with additional program needs as requested by the Vice President of Nursing Operations, Clinical Director or designee.
- Seek opportunities to increase self-knowledge to improve the quality of client care provided.
- Maintain compliance with Joint Commission and State/License regulatory standards and company policy.
- In an emergency or declared state of emergency, may be required to stay onsite as a part of the emergency team until emergency has ended.
- Demonstrates ability to identify and refer legal and/or ethical issues in client care to the Clinical Director or Director of Compliance.