Lead Nurse Care Manager

Essential Functions

• Provide consultation and operational support to program operations and clinical leadership on the day-to-day expectation of the nursing department.
• Provides mentorship to professional nurses in the organization and supervises any additional assigned staff.
• Affirms medication accuracy with effective ongoing monitoring for ordering, labeling, packaging, distributing and checking that medications ordered by the physician are administered.
• Affirms nursing documentation is being entered following standards of care.
• Develops and conducts medical/health trainings as assigned to staff.
• Provides ongoing supervision and yearly performance reviews of assigned staff.
• Coincides closely with healthcare and allied professionals and departments.
• Manages any matrix schedules across departments including on-call in coordination with leadership.
• Takes oversight and ownership of nursing and related medical supplies.
• Coincides closely with health and allied professionals and departments.
• Care for residents/clients non-assigned units by covering in the absence of unit staff nurses.
• Reviews, revises, and implements nursing policies and procedures in collaboration with clinical leadership of assigned programs.
• Affirms consistent provision of services by monitoring health care in assigned programs and communicating with program staff.
• Affirms current and accurate medical records by maintaining an accurate computer database and consistently charting significant health related interactions.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree required.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of nursing preferred.
• Current Maine Registered Nurse License.
• CPR/First Aid Certification.
• CRMA Training Certification preferred.
• Two years of clinical nursing experience.
• Experience in pediatric/psychiatric nursing or equivalent.