Medical Services Manager

Essentials

• Administers personal care, medications, treatments, and other nursing procedures to selected clients as authorized by Hospital policy, RN License, and Standards of Practice.
• Supervises, encourages, and teaches the client personal hygiene and dietary needs as well as medication actions and reactions.
• Makes sure clients take prescribed psychotropic medications and records medications accurately.
• Provides on call coverage for emergency consultation and intervention outside of regular work hours.
• Assists in situational crisis intervention as needed.
• Participates in treatment team meetings, in-service training, and other meetings as scheduled.
• Aids professional staff in arranging emergency transportation for psychiatric and medical emergencies.
• Provides 24 hours on-call coverage for emergency consultation and intervention outside of regular work hours.
• Reports safety hazards, maintenance, and housekeeping requirements to the Residential Manager.
• Leads clients education groups, provides individual client psych-education and completes billing as directed.
• Orders, receives and stocks Medication Room supplies.
• Responds appropriately to emergency situations; i.e., notifies staff administration, police, fire department, ambulance and paramedics, as appropriate.
• Supervises and monitors the performance of Medication Technicians.
• Reviews and appraises the performance of subordinates annually.
• Formally reviews and appraises the performance of subordinates annually.
• Assists in personnel actions, such as recruitment, evaluations and discipline.

Essential Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English both verbally and in writing.
• Proven ability to work with adult clients.
• Operate selected equipment.
• Possesses knowledge of current trends in psychiatric client care, management theories, nursing acuities and therapeutic milieu, Client Rights, DMH, and Title 22 AOA requirements.
• High degree of inter-personal skills, communication, and leadership, along with management skills in nursing, including organizing and staffing P.A.’s, M.H.A’s, Medication Technicians and L.V.N.’s.
• Understanding of individual, group, and family psychotherapy.
• Basic physical assessment skills and analytical data review.