RN Supervisor - Night

POSITION SUMMARY

To ensure in collaboration with the Nurse Manager that each neighborhood provide safe, appropriate and goal-directed care and to provide support and direct nursing staff. To be familiar with all policies and procedures. Be able to seek appropriate guidance as needed. Work in collaboration with medical doctors in emergent situations and support and promote family centered care and maintain effective communication with family members.

The RN Supervisor will be responsible for working an on-site schedule of a 3-4 days/week including weekend. The ideal candidate has strong clinical skills in change management, emotional intelligence and demonstrated leadership experience in a residential or behavioral health setting.

The RN Supervisor will be included in a Nursing Leadership weekend rotation to ensure continuity of systems and protocols are maintained through the entire week.

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

• Understands and promotes Elizabeth Seton Children’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure application with organizational policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates professionalism and flexibility in all situations and encounters.
• Represents the Children’s Center knowledgably and with dignity when interacting with visitors or in the community.
• Creates and maintains an atmosphere of safety, warmth and support which encourages residents/families and staff to achieve their full potential.
• Provides staff with supervision, support and guidance necessary to implement nursing theory and practice and provide safe, appropriate goal directed care.
• Performs clinical evaluation for the physician on site and reports clinical findings for medical decisions.
• Guides and supervises the nursing staff in the delivery of nursing care, to ensure continuity of care and to evaluate the quality of total care provided on the evening and night tours of duty. Provides accurate, objective and thorough endorsement of resident status to oncoming management and to clinical status meetings when scheduled
• Initiates investigations of care issues and family concerns in a timely and thorough manner. This includes, but is not limited to, incident reports, medication errors and abuse and neglect reporting

• Collaborate with Nurse Manager, supervise and support nursing staff, including performance evaluations, coaching and counseling.

• Interprets policies and procedures for nursing staff and other services. Provides education and training as needed regarding policy and procedure.
• Provides input to Team Leaders on a regular basis regarding employee performance on their shift, and intervenes as necessary to provide coaching, counseling and/or progressive discipline. When providing same follows all rules of regulations of the Center, the SDOH and the 1199 bargaining unit.
• Takes responsibility to arrange coverage for scheduled shift if unable to provide coverage as planned.
• Displays flexibility and willingness to assure house coverage is provided when requested.
• Maintains accurate and clear records regarding changes in shift assignment in accordance with rules of the Center and the 1199 bargaining unit contract.
• Uses SBAR and other tools, such as 24 hours report to objectively document resident/family concerns
• Manages night medication cabinet and seeks solutions to obtain medication for residents if needed.
• Attends management meetings as required, this includes Operations Meetings and other Management Training as scheduled
• Rounds on Neighborhoods for the purpose of obtaining clinical information on residents, to support and educate staff, to assist with family issues and endorses complete information to next shift. Promotes 24 x7 accurate, objective clinical and administrative reports.
• Follow-up on status of residents transferred to other facilities and reports follow up to oncoming shift, Team…