Associate Director RN

About the role

Banner University Medical Center – Tucson (South Campus) houses the only Level 1 Academic Medical Center in Tucson meeting the needs of the SMI population. The Behavioral Health Pavilion is also the largest inpatient psychiatric service in Southern Arizona, offering crisis stabilization, psychiatric assessments, 24-hour psychiatric and nursing care, expressive arts therapy, group therapy, family support therapy, medication management, and a separate behavioral health unit within the Emergency Department.

Responsibilities

• Lead up to 50 staff members and oversee daily operations within the unit: interviews, committee work, quality initiatives, day-to-day operations.
• Provide real-time clinical expertise for unit staff and physicians on escalated patient, process, recruitment, and family issues.
• Manage unit operations to deliver safe, cost-effective, and high-quality patient care.
• Collaborate with bedside staff, quality specialists, and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and departmental success.
• Serve as a role model and encourage staff participation in their own development.
• Responsible for selection, orientation, onboarding, and retention of staff.
• Demonstrate leadership through coaching, performance evaluations, corrective actions, and development opportunities.
• Manage large single or multiple clinical units to ensure excellent patient care.
• Actively develop leadership of entry-level nurse managers while leading clinical improvement initiatives.

Core Functions

• Manages and facilitates patient-centered nursing care for designated patient populations by serving as a real-time clinical expert for unit staff and physicians for escalated problem-solving on patients, processes, and family issues.
• Manages the operations of the unit to ensure smooth and efficient patient care management and resource utilization.
• Leads change by developing, implementing, and evaluating quality and process improvement initiatives of the department in conjunction with the director.
• Seeks and utilizes input from staff and oversees change implementation.
• Ensures compliance with appropriate regulatory agencies.
• Facilitates communication of system, regional, facility, and department initiatives.
• Manages and develops the operational and capital budgets and use of associated resources.
• Assures the development of staff leadership through the design of effective shared leadership models and supports career advancement opportunities.

Requirements

• BSN or MSN required for all new hires; BSN required for internal transfers/promotions within 6 months of transfer/promotion.
• Current valid RN license in state of practice.
• BLS certification.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of clinical care management as normally demonstrated through two years of clinical management experience relevant to patient population.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills of specialty area.
• Requires critical thinking, communication, influence, decision-making, analytical, and flexibility skills to make optimal decisions based on multiple variables and desired outcomes.
• Ability to practice skills according to department and professional standards and quality requirements.
• In LTC setting: familiarity with Alzheimer’s disease and developmental disabilities.
• Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital, BTMC Behavioral or BUMG, BUMCT in a Behavioral Health clinical setting that serves children must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.
• An Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire.
• Employees working at BUMCS in a Behavioral Health clinical setting must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing preferred.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Schedule

Full-Time, Monday–Friday, typically 8:00 am–5:00 pm, with every other Friday off. Leaders rotate on-call to include holidays.