RN Supervisor Job Description

Job Summary: Provides supervision and direction hospital – wide to all clinical areas in the interest of providing appropriate care for inpatient and residential clients. Works collaboratively with charge RNs inpatient and charge MHWs in residential settings to address medical, psychological, and social concerns of each patient/resident.

This position will initially serve as a Temporary Inpatient Nursing Supervisor, providing operational oversight and clinical support within the inpatient setting. As the residential program opens, the role will transition to provide nursing leadership and supervision for the residential programs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Core Competencies

• Establishes and achieves goals and objectives for the evening or weekend shift consistent with organizational goals.
• Assures a workplace environment and culture that optimizes patient care and patient safety to reduce the likelihood of health care errors.
• Promotes and encourages a workplace environment that embraces a customer service philosophy in interactions with all patients, visitors, staff and vendors.
• Works with hospital-wide staff on appropriate decision making as problems arise.
• Provides comprehensive handoffs both verbal and written to appropriate managers.
• Communicates pertinent information on critical incidents and sentinel events to AOC.
• Motivates, praises and redirects staff as appropriate.
• Provides ongoing coaching, mentoring, recognition and feedback to all staff.
• Responds to behavioral emergencies in the residential units, gets orders for certificate of need (CON) if this is indicated and completes page post-event evaluation of the resident.
• Follows all organizational policies and procedures outlined in the Policies and Procedures Manual of the Retreat. Maintains policies and procedures for the inpatient and residential units.
• Completes required mandatory education, e-learning courses assigned to improve skills and professional development courses required to maintain competency.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

1. Medical and clinical assessment skills.

2. Ability to triage multiple care needs throughout the hospital and problem solve so that the needs of the patients are best met on each unit.

3. Ability to work with staff members and identify their respective strengths and weaknesses.

4. Ability to guide staff toward better care of patients and through a collaborative process and, when necessary, through initiation of disciplinary action in collaboration with the Evening Clinical Managers and the unit managers.

5. Ability to identify milieu destabilizing problems and work collaboratively with charge RNs/MHWs, demonstrating a willingness to guide staff toward stabilizing and maximizing the therapeutic milieu

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Vermont RN licensure or eligibility for Vermont licensure. Master's in nursing preferred.

2. Minimum of three years experience in behavioral health. Two years of management experience

required.

3. Computer literate, knowledge of PC environment, typing skills, email usage skills, and ability to

complete formatted report to executives, managers. and clinicians regarding data and events of previous

shift.

4. Proven ability to triage and problem solve.

5. Proven competence with physical assessment, nursing care and theory, as well as evaluation of the

patient or resident after a physical hold, locked-door seclusion, or involuntary medication event.