House Supervisor (RN)Registered Nurse Behavioral Health

About the role

Oversees nursing and hospital operations during assigned shifts to ensure quality general and psychiatric patient care; supervises staffing and scheduling, provides direct nursing care, and supports department managers with education, discipline, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes specialized plan-of-care intervention and serves as a patient-care innovator.
• Manages scheduling and staffing for the nursing department, ensures coverage, minimizes overtime and agency use, and approves or denies time-off requests.
• Maintains staff attendance records, assists with payroll, provides backup nursing and intake assistance, responds to patient needs, and advocates for patients.
• Supervises hospital operations when administration is not present, oversees staff performance, provides coaching and education as needed, conducts staff evaluations, delivers disciplinary actions professionally and promptly, assists with department meetings, documents attendance, and prepares meeting minutes.
• Supports the intake department as necessary, conducts thorough investigations, collects and documents accurate information, and provides reports to appropriate parties.
• Ensures documentation is timely, accurate, and complete and delivers quality nursing care to achieve treatment plan goals.
• Supervises and mentors nursing and support staff during assigned shift, determines staffing level and assignments based on staff availability, patient acuity, and work/patient flow, provides direct patient care as needed, floats between staff to assist with problem-solving, may take patient assignments to meet staffing needs, evaluates the effectiveness of patient care, and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes.
• Responds to complaints about patient care and related services, and manages through established channels, performs role-specific duties as assigned, including entering orders, performing admissions or discharges, and coordinating transfers, ensures staff has necessary equipment and supplies to provide safe, quality patient care, integrates evidence-based practices into operations and clinical protocols, creates and fosters an environment that encourages professional growth, initiates weekend case management, utilization review screening, assists with D/C planning and swing intake.

Requirements

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Current Registered Nurse license as required by state regulations in which the facility operates.
• 1-year experience in a psychiatric health care facility preferred.
• 1-year experience in a nursing leadership/management role preferred.
• Experience in a psychiatric health-care facility with chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric, or geriatric patients preferred.
• Experience in patient assessment, family motivation, treatment planning, and communication with external review organizations.
• CPR certification required within 30 days of employment and prior to any patient contact.
• De-escalation certification required within 30 days of employment and prior to any patient contact.

Qualifications

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Current Registered Nurse license as required by state regulations in which the facility operates.
• 1-year experience in a psychiatric health care facility preferred.
• 1-year experience in a nursing leadership/management role preferred.
• Experience in a psychiatric health-care facility with chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric, or geriatric patients preferred.
• Experience in patient assessment, family motivation, treatment planning, and communication with external review organizations.
• CPR certification required within 30 days of employment and prior to any patient contact.
• De-escalation certification required within 30 days of employment and prior to any patient contact.

Skills

• Utilizes specialized plan-of-care intervention and serves as a patient-care innovator.
• Manages scheduling and staffing for the nursing department, ensures coverage, minimizes overtime and agency use, and approves or denies time-off requests.
• Provides backup nursing and intake assistance, responds to patient needs, and advocates for patients.
• Supervises hospital operations when administration is not present, oversees staff performance, provides coaching and education as needed, conducts staff evaluations, delivers disciplinary actions professionally and promptly, assists with department meetings, documents attendance, and prepares meeting minutes.
• Supports the intake department as necessary, conducts thorough investigations, collects and documents accurate information, and provides reports to appropriate parties.
• Ensures documentation is timely, accurate, and complete and delivers quality nursing care to achieve treatment plan goals.
• Supervises and mentors nursing and support staff during assigned shift, determines staffing level and assignments based on staff availability, patient acuity, and work/patient flow, provides direct patient care as needed, floats between staff to assist with problem-solving, may take patient assignments to meet staffing needs, evaluates the effectiveness of patient care, and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes.
• Responds to complaints about patient care and related services, and manages through established channels, performs role-specific duties as assigned, including entering orders, performing admissions or discharges, and coordinating transfers, ensures staff has necessary equipment and supplies to provide safe, quality patient care, integrates evidence-based practices into operations and clinical protocols, creates and fosters an environment that encourages professional growth, initiates weekend case management, utilization review screening, assists with D/C planning and swing intake.

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage - tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Days