Assistant Director of Nursing

Responsibilities

• Actively serves as a key member of the organization's core management team
• Ensure effective integration of nursing services into overall organization operations
• Carry out the personnel management activities associated with direct staff supervision, including screening and selection, orientation training and development, performance management, and employee relations functions
• Serve as the department's fiscal manager
• Provide clinical supervision in psychiatric nursing care to nursing staff
• Communicate with referral sources and family members in patients' interest
• Participate in treatment planning, implementation, and monitoring
• Initiate and implement Quality Improvement activities including audit coordination, incident reviews, system reviews, survey preparation, etc

Requirements

• Current California Registered Nurse License
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• BLS (Basic Life Support ) Certification for Healthcare Providers - American Heart Association

Skills

• Advanced or thorough knowledge of psychiatric and general nursing care concepts and methodologies and demonstrated skill in their implementation
• Supervisory and basic personnel management skills
• Skills in policy and procedure development and implementation
• Basic teaching or training skills; skills in analysis, evaluation, and interpretation, organization, prioritization, and time management skills
• Sound written and oral communication skills
• Adaptability and flexibility; track record as a team player
• Clinical evaluation and intervention skills, including crisis management
• Detail-oriented, balanced with the ability to see whole clinical and organizational picture and make sound clinical and administrative judgments and decisions, independence
• Skills in maintaining therapeutic milieu
• Working knowledge of, and skills in maintaining therapeutic milieu
• Must also be able to cope well with stress, have a strong sense of compassion, and communicate well with others

Pay

Pay Range: $144K/Annually

Benefits

• 401K Retirement Plan
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Healthcare Spending Account & Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• PTOPTO Cash Out option
• Sick Pay
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• ID Theft Protection