Children's Behavioral Health Nursing Director

Overview

Job Title: Children s Behavioral Health Nursing Director

This position provides leadership, clinical and operational direction to Children’s Behavioral Health and Primary Children’s. This position is the senior nursing leader for Children’s Behavioral Health and Primary Children’s Hospital – Taylorsville (behavioral health campus). Responsibilities include ensuring optimal patient care, achieving financial goals, and leadership development. The role has system level accountability in the Children’s Behavioral Health service line and operational responsibility for 3 pediatric behavioral health inpatient units, with a total of 66 beds at 3 hospitals.

It also leads a team of Nursing House Supervisors at Primary Children’s – Taylorsville campus, and nursing across the care continuum of pediatric behavioral health services. The role reports to the Hospital President for Primary Children’s Taylorsville campus & Children’s Behavioral Health, with a dotted line to the Children’s Health Chief Nursing Officer. Home location is Primary Children’s – Taylorsville campus, with regular on-site work at other children’s behavioral health locations as well.

Compensation and

Schedule:

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of base salary and paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals. Location is Primary Children s at Taylorsville; scheduled weekly hours are 40. The hourly range listed is $58.62 - $90.48, dependent on experience.

• Champions the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards.
• Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level.
• Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budgets for the unit. Provides resources effectively for department managers to meet financial goals of the department.
• Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
• Ensures a competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, including hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
• Accountable for the implementation of clinical program protocols, and ongoing monitoring and process improvement to assure goals are achieved.
• Collaborates with medical director and system colleagues in the development and implementation of clinical program goals.
• Evaluates staff competency through performance reviews and peer reviews.
• Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives and regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit-specific accrediting and certifying bodies.
• Facilitates the use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles.
• Acts as an exemplary figure for employees in all facets of patient care.
• Monitors and improves patient satisfaction using available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop action plans and achieve desired outcomes.
• Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
• Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

• Leadership
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Financial acumen
• Clinical knowledge
• Resource management
• Patient safety
• Mentorship
• Community outreach

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
• Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
• Leadership/supervisory experience.
• 3 years of management experience and 2…