RN Supervisor

Full Time RN Supervisor - Nursing Home

A beautiful, 120 bed skilled nursing facility is looking for strong RN Supervisor.

Major Functions:

Under general direction, the Nurse Supervisor is responsible for the management of the nursing services of the agencies program in accordance with NYS and federal law and regulation. Management responsibilities include the direct supervision of nursing and medical support staff and coordination of client medical care to ensure the delivery of timely and appropriate medical services. Collaborates with the multidisciplinary care team to provide a safe and comfortable medically supervised process. Provides in-service orientation, training and competency evaluation to agency nursing staff and medical support staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops nursing and medical support staff schedules.
• Monitors completion of medical support and nursing staff assignments, identifies lags in the daily flow and intervenes as necessary to improve efficiency. Maintains and/or improves levels of productivity set by administration and the needs of clients.
• Supervises care provided by nursing staff to ensure current competency and best practice standards.
• Conducts orientation for new nursing and medical support staff and provides in-service training as needed.
• Provides medication administration training and competency evaluation for required staff.
• Provides direct client care.
• Assists physicians by identifying, reporting and addressing changes in the client's health status.
• Communicates daily with clinical staff to identify client needs so that they can be incorporated into the daily work schedule.
• Provides "on call" coverage, via beeper, as required and assigns other nursing staff to the "on call" schedule to ensure 24-hour coverage.
• Supervises staff to ensure compliance with agency policies and procedures for client record documentation and billing information management.
• Ensures integrity, proper organization, completeness and confidentiality of the client record in accordance with agency policy and procedure.
• Ensures proper safekeeping and dispensing of controlled narcotics
• Completes quarterly infection control reports.
• Identifies quality of care issues and makes recommendations for improvement to Program Director, and Medical Director.
• Attends case conferences and other meetings as scheduled by the Program Director.
• Keeps abreast of changes in field.
• Performs other duties as requested.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing. Associate's Degree in Nursing.
• Minimum 5+ years nursing supervisory experience with a minimum of which, must include 3 years of hospital, substance use or other behavior healthcare supervisory nursing experience.
• Available to work a flexible schedule and be to work all shifts as needed in response to participant and staff needs.
• Computer literacy including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and EMR.
• Strong leadership and effective management skills.
• Ability to implement and monitor policy and procedure in accordance with agency guidelines.
• Knowledgeable about federal, state and local law and regulation governing substance abuse treatment programs.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

License/Certification Required:

• NYS RN license
• BLS Certification.