Director of Nursing

About the Role

As our Director of Nursing, you will provide leadership, guidance, and administrative oversight to the psychiatry unit team to ensure safe, high-quality, and evidence-based care is delivered every day. In this role, you will support individuals across North Dakota who are experiencing severe and chronic mental health and substance use challenges. Your work will directly impact some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens by helping create an environment focused on dignity, recovery, and long-term success. By leading with light, you will bring compassion, accountability, respect, and hope to both the people we serve and the staff you support.

You will oversee and support psychiatry unit team members by providing coaching, education, and ongoing training to ensure staff have the knowledge and resources needed to provide effective care. You will work closely with staff on daily operations, step in to assist during challenging situations, and help foster a collaborative and supportive team environment. You will also ensure clear understanding of professional boundaries and scopes of practice by recognizing the differences between prescriber responsibilities and nursing responsibilities to maintain compliance with regulations and safe patient care practices.

In this position, you will need to be a motivated and resilient leader who can remain focused and supportive during difficult situations. You will understand that progress and recovery can take time, and you will continue working alongside staff and patients to help individuals gain the skills, resources, and supports needed to live as independently and successfully as possible.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance, and administrative oversight to the psychiatry unit team.
• Support individuals with severe and chronic mental health and substance use challenges.
• Oversee and support team members through coaching, education, and ongoing training.
• Assist with daily operations and challenging situations to foster a collaborative environment.
• Ensure understanding of professional boundaries and scopes of practice for compliance and safe patient care.
• Lead with adaptability, critical thinking, and strong working relationships across disciplines.
• Strengthen services and support staff development to help North Dakota become one of the healthiest states.

Requirements

• North Dakota Registered Nurse license from the North Dakota Board of Nursing or ability to obtain one.
• Minimum of two (2) years of behavioral health supervisory experience.
• Experience working with individuals with substance use disorders.
• Strong knowledge of behavioral health services, psychiatric nursing, and substance use disorders.
• Comfortable having crucial conversations and addressing concerns directly.
• Understanding of state regulations and compliance expectations.
• Ability to ask questions, seek information, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Skills

• Leadership and administrative oversight.
• Coaching, education, and training.
• Critical thinking and adaptability.
• Building strong working relationships across disciplines.
• Compassion, accountability, respect, and hope.
• Leading with LIGHT: hope, purpose, gratitude, health, civility, kindness, and love.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus up to $12,000.

Location

This position will be onsite in Dickinson, North Dakota.

About HHSND

HHS strives to make North Dakota the healthiest state in the nation by reinforcing the foundations of wellbeing: physical, economic, and behavioral. The keys to success are the 2,800 committed team members who are guided by a simple but powerful belief: when we lead with light, we create systems and services rooted in hope, clarity, and possibility. Their work is supported with more than $6 billion in funding from nearly 400 different federal, state, and special sources.