Supervisor of Residential Nursing Towson - Retreat

Responsibilities

• Works with other disciplines to maintain effective communication between nursing staff, residents, families, and other members of the treatment team.
• Provides a work environment conducive to the delivery of optimal health care.
• Communicates and administers the residential quality assurance programs and ensures residential program compliance with system-wide risk management and infection control programs.
• Collaborates with the Program Manager in the selection of nursing staff.
• Orients new nurses to the unit; follows up on progress and training needs.

• Must possess current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maryland at the time of appointment and continuously during tenure in position.
• Work requires written and oral communication skills and comprehensive knowledge of standards of nursing practice – acquired through completion of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited nursing program or through completion of a diploma/AA nursing program plus an additional one to two years’ experience in addition to the experience requirement listed below.
• Work requires clinical and supervisory skills, knowledge of psychiatric nursing, and nursing competency with the adult and adolescent population – acquired through two to three years of related experience.
• Work requires interpersonal skills sufficient to interact effectively with adults and adolescent psychiatrically ill students based on an understanding of their age-specific needs in order to gain their cooperation, to interact effectively with families/guardians, school systems, treatment teams, and a variety of internal and external contacts (51 – 80% of work time).
• Work requires analytical and problem-solving abilities necessary to plan, evaluate, and administer nursing services program resources, to formulate special treatment care plans for identified residents, and to provide appropriate nursing care.
• Work very frequently (51-80% of work time) requires adaption to multiple demands for the individual’s time and energy and produces a high level of stress and mental fatigue.

• Works in a patient care environment where there are exposures to communicable diseases (26-50% of work time).
• Work requires occasional exposure to the risk of physical injury by assaultive residents/ patients (less than 5% of work time).