Director of Nursing at Nexus Family Healing – Plymouth, Minnesota

Nexus Family Healing is looking to hire a Director of Nursing to join our fantastic team!

For more than 50 years, Nexus has empowered thousands of children, families, and adults to find hope and healing. What started in 1972 as a single program in Minnetonka, Minnesota has grown into a nationally recognized network across five states. As a progressive leader in youth and family mental health, we’re driven by a clear mission: to close gaps in care and create brighter futures for those we serve.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Pay and Schedule:

• Full-time Hybrid opportunity
• Travel up to 50% of time
• Starting salary range: $135,000-1500,000 annually

Nexus’ Comprehensive Benefits Include:

• Five weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401k match
• NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
• NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion
• And much more!

Position Summary: Our Director of Nursing provides organization wide leadership, guidance, and oversight for nursing services across all Nexus Family Healing agencies employing nursing staff. This role ensures consistent, high quality nursing practice through standardized policies, procedures, and clinical expectations, while maintaining compliance with all applicable regulatory, licensing, and accreditation requirements. Serving in an advisory and oversight capacity rather than direct supervision, the Director of Nursing collaborates with executive leadership, agency leadership, and nursing teams to strengthen clinical practice, support quality outcomes, and promote organizational consistency.

Primary responsibilities:

Organization-Wide Nursing Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership and clinical oversight for nursing services across all Nexus Family Healing agencies with nursing staff.
• Establish consistent, effective nursing practices aligned with evidence-based standards, ethical guidelines, and organizational expectations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to executive leadership and agency leaders on nursing practice, trends, regulatory requirements, and emerging clinical issues.
• Provide consultation and clinical guidance to agency leadership and nursing teams to support sound decision making, risk mitigation, and client safety.
• Promote high quality, evidence-based nursing care aligned with Nexus Family Healing’s mission, values, and commitment to positive client outcomes.
• Foster a culture of clinical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across nursing services organization-wide.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for the Electronic Medical Record System (EMR), providing guidance, support, and training to agencies and nursing staff.

Policies, Procedures, and Standardization

• Develop, implement, and maintain system wide nursing policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines that support safe, effective, and consistent nursing practice.
• Ensure nursing policies reflect evidence-based standards and professional practice guidelines while allowing for agency specific regulatory requirements.
• Identify and advance opportunities to standardize nursing practices, documentation, tools, and workflows to reduce variation and improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with agency leadership and nursing teams to assess current practices and support appropriate standardization.
• Ensure nursing policies, procedures, and documentation remain current, accurate, and compliant with federal, state, and local regulations, as well as accreditation standards.
• Support agencies with education, implementation, and ongoing adherence to standardized nursing practices.

Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management

• Monitor and interpret regulatory and accreditation requirements impacting nursing services across all jurisdictions of operation.
• Assess regulatory changes and provide guidance to agency leadership to support timely and compliant implementation.
• Serve as a resource to agencies on nursing scope of practice, licensure, documentation, and regulatory expectations.
• Partner with Quality & Outcomes and Operations to identify, assess, and address nursing related risk and compliance issues.
• Participate in incident reviews, investigations, and root cause analyses as needed and support corrective and preventive actions.
• Assist agencies in preparation for audits, inspections, accreditation reviews, and regulatory monitoring visits, including corrective action planning and follow up.

Collaboration and Consultation

• Act as a key consultant to agency leadership, nursing leadership, and clinical teams on nursing standards, practice expectations, and system wide initiatives.
• Foster collaborative relationships across agencies to promote alignment, transparency, and shared accountability.
• Partner with Human Resources to maintain consistent nursing role expectations, job descriptions, competencies, and scopes of practice.
• Support consistency in nursing onboarding, orientation, and training standards across agencies.
• Provide input into nursing workforce planning, recruitment, retention, role design, and long-term organizational needs.
• Support initiatives that strengthen nurse engagement, retention, and professional development.

Quality Improvement and Outcomes

• Define and monitor organization level nursing quality indicators to evaluate safety, effectiveness, and consistency of nursing services.
• Collaborate with Quality and Clinical teams to align nursing metrics with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and accreditation standards.
• Analyze nursing related data, trends, and outcomes to identify strengths, opportunities, and emerging risks.
• Share insights and recommendations with executive and agency leadership to support informed decision making.
• Support the development, implementation, and evaluation of continuous quality improvement initiatives related to nursing practice and care delivery.
• Promote a culture of quality, accountability, and data informed practice within nursing services.

Education and Professional Development

• Define and maintain core nursing competencies, training requirements, and education standards applicable across agencies.
• Ensure competencies and training expectations align with regulatory, accreditation, and evidence-based practice standards.
• Support ongoing education and professional development by identifying training needs, best practices, and skill building opportunities.
• Collaborate with agency leadership, Clinical, and Human Resources teams to facilitate access to education and professional growth.
• Promote professional standards, ethical practice, continuous learning, and clinical excellence across nursing services.

Required Education and Licensure:

• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in at least one state where Nexus operates
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive nursing experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in leadership, clinical oversight, or system-level roles
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in behavioral health, mental health, residential treatment, or human services
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements impacting nursing care
• Experience with accreditation bodies and regulatory inspections
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare Administration, or related field preferred.
• Experience supporting nursing services across multiple locations or agencies preferred

Travel:

• Travel up to 50 percent of the time required via air and ground transportation

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

Our ICARE Values:

• Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches
• Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern
• Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly
• Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate
• Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!