Walden - Nursing Supervisor

About the role

We save lives while providing the opportunity for people to realize their healthy selves. Walden Behavioral Care is one of the only rapidly growing, leading national specialty healthcare systems dedicated to serving all genders and offering the full continuum of care for people with all types of eating disorders. We currently have 14 locations on the East Coast in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Georgia. Over the past 15 years, utilizing our state-of-the-art, evidence-based, personalized approach to care, we have helped over 20,000 people on their road to recovery. Headquartered in Massachusetts, we have over 450 employees who are dedicated to helping people with eating disorders get the help they need and deserve. Learn more at www.waldenbehavioralcare.com.

Responsibilities

• Performs regular nursing rounds on each of the inpatient units and in the residential program.
• Assists in the management of medical and/or psychiatric emergencies.
• Investigates critical incidents as they occur.
• Serves as a patient advocate and assists in the patient and/or family complaint resolution process.
• Serves as a clinical resource for employees.
• Assures nursing standards of practice are adhered to.
• Role models professional practice when assisting in the milieu.
• Assists in the orientation of new employees to their respective role.
• Evaluates the staffing needs on each of the units and allocates resources accordingly.
• Provides administrative direction and consultation regarding patient and employee issues.
• Implements efforts to minimize and prevent the utilization of patient restraint in the inpatient setting.
• Assists in the coordination of patient admissions in collaboration with the Admissions Department.
• Participates in the supervision and disciplinary action of employees in collaboration with nursing leadership.
• Completes performance reviews on assigned employees and contributes to the performance evaluation of other employees as requested.
• Assists in employee recruitment and retention efforts in partnership with nursing leadership and Human Resources.
• Serves as a medium of communication between individuals and shifts.
• Implements emergency services and initiates disaster planning according to Walden policy.
• Acts as a liaison between units, programs, and other departments.
• Intervenes and resolves staff issues that may contribute to ineffective work practices and/or negative patient outcomes.
• Maintains competency requirements.
• Monitors staff competence through observation of skills and implements initiatives to elevate practice.
• Acts as a role model for employees and uses experience as an educational tool.
• Regularly attends Grand Rounds or other offered educational in-services.
• Attends and contributes to the facilitation of monthly staff meetings.
• Serves as a trainer for identified patient care initiatives.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
• 2 years RN experience, and 2 years of Supervisor experience in a general inpatient or behavioral health care setting preferred.
• Massachusetts RN license.
• CPR Certified
• Must possess knowledge of general and psychiatric nursing processes, therapeutic relationships and processes, age-specific growth and development, limit setting, behavior, and crisis management