Registered Nurse Supervisor 2

Alden, NY – Wende Correctional Facility

About the role

Registered Nurse Supervisor 2 (Regional Medical Unit) responsible for establishing standards for nursing practice to meet requirements of accrediting agencies and providing direct supervision and administrative direction to clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Establish and implement an organizational plan to accomplish objectives.
• Coordinate, supervise, and evaluate all activities of nursing personnel in areas of organizational responsibility.
• Establish professional role expectations based on research findings, health care trends, appropriate legal standards, and professional organizations.
• Develop and promote clinical practice/performance in behaviors identified by professional role expectations.
• Develop and promote the managerial development of Registered Nurse Supervisors 1 within their respective areas.
• Select, hire, orient, and supervise Registered Nurse Supervisors 1 with emphasis on decentralization.
• Evaluate and provide feedback through performance evaluations, planned meetings, and informal discussions.
• Identify the individual and collective needs of nursing staff to optimize professional performance.
• Establish and monitor staffing patterns to assure safe, high-level individual care.
• Determine and justify the need for staffing, material, and environmental resources to deliver high-quality patient care for existing and proposed programs.
• Develop, implement, and monitor risk reduction measures.
• Participate in the organizational Quality Assurance Program to ensure high-level individual practices.
• Provide overall direction for Quality Assurance within nursing areas of clinical responsibility.
• Monitor problem reporting and resolution based on nursing quality assurance.
• Collaborate with others in monitoring interdisciplinary individual care practices.
• Develop and implement organizational and community programs and policies consistent with accepted standards for health care management and delivery.

Requirements

• A license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.
• A bachelor’s degree in nursing.
• One of the following:
  • One year of permanent service as a Registered Nurse Supervisor 1; OR
  • One year of permanent service as a Registered Nurse 3 (Infection Control) or Registered Nurse 3 (Correctional Services); OR
  • Two years of permanent service as a Registered Nurse 2 (Utilization).

Pay

$93,659 - $118,388/year

Benefits

Full-time position with benefits.