Nurse Manager

Initial Posting Date:

03/27/2025

Application Deadline:

04/07/2025

Agency:

Department of Corrections

Salary Range:

$8,920 - $13,148

Position Type:

Employee

Position Title:

Nurse Manager (Wilsonville)

Job Description:

Nurse Manager (Wilsonville)

Coffee Creek Correctional Facility - Wilsonville, Oregon

Oregon Department of Corrections

About the Job - Your Role

You will supervise Institution Registered Nurses, Health Services Technicians, and Certified Medication Aids. You may also supervise Registered Nurses who have been designated as Lead Workers and Pharmacy Technicians 2.

Your duties will include recruitment, hiring, training, scheduling, assigning, and managing employee performance. You will establish and manage systems to deliver medical, dental, hospice, psychiatric treatment, and medications services on a 24-hour, 7-day per week basis for adults in custody (AICs) housed in a variety of units including, but not limited to, general population, infirmary, minimum housing, disciplinary segregation unit, mental health unit, and administrative segregation unit. You will ensure the standard of health care is consistent with that available in the community and assists the facility to meet standards for environment/occupational health and safety. You will serve as the on-site health authority. You will also participate on the statewide Health Services Management team which is a forum used to problem solve operational issues, develop short- and long-range operational goals, and develop policies.

Managing

Manages human resources to deliver all levels and types of nursing care to a population of the adults in custody. Recruits, interviews, selects, and orients nursing personnel to perform health care delivery. Verifies licenses, certificates, and secures training for personnel. Assigns work to nursing personnel consistent with credentials and clinical privileges. Supervises employees and agency personnel so work performed is consistent with assignment and licensure requirements. Uses progressive discipline to correct deficient employee performance. The total nursing staff in each facility ranges from 05-37 positions servicing 1,400-3,000 adults in custody.

Ensures medical records are properly maintained on all adults in custody.

Establishes and maintains a system for administration of medication according to physicians' orders, which is timely and conforms to applicable law, administrative rule, and security requirements.

Responds to written and verbal complaints, grievances, or other request for information including investigations.

Represents the Department of Corrections in court as necessary. Must be able to perform the duties as listed on the institutional Registered Nurse position description in case of emergencies, staff shortages, or as needed.

Planning

Writes and implements health services procedures consistent with the Health Services policy, assists in the preparation of nursing protocols at the state-wide level, and participates in policymaking regarding Health Services.

Provide and arrange for in-service training of nursing staff. Schedule employees for all required training and assists in facilitating continuing professional education requirements. May function as a trainer for annual-in-service training.

Establishes a plan for health care programs to evaluate and monitor the quality of health care provided. Evaluates and documents the quality of health service delivery. Prepares written and statistical reports which convey or quantify the status, volume, and quality of services provided by the Health Services Program.

Assists the Medical Services Manager in examining, developing, and proposing service alternatives to expand the level of service provided or improve the quality of service, including cost and resource sharing service.

Budgetary

Participates in and assists the Medical Services Manager in examining in managing the fiscal resources; and is primarily responsible for overseeing the nursing schedules to minimize budgetary overtime of the Health Services Program. As part of your role, you will be responsible for managing the timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.

Leadership Skills and Attributes

Collaboration - The ability to intentionally work together with peers, staff, and stakeholders towards shared goals. Collaborative leaders are non-hierarchical and share responsibility, authority, and accountability equitably with others.

Emotional Intelligence- The ability to consciously recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions, and to empathetically and judiciously recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.

Ethics and Values - The ability to behave with integrity, honesty, and transparency in accordance with statute, administrative rule, ODOC Code of Conduct, ODOC Code of Ethics, and Criminal Justice Code of Ethics, and the department's stated values in all actions.

Influence- The ability to shape opinions, change hearts and minds, and motivate others to carry out the goals of the organization by relating their personal motivations to the desired future state.

Inspiring a United Vision - The ability to imagine the future with creativity, wisdom, and ingenuity. Leaders illuminate the path toward continuous transformation, sparking shared commitment, and action in others to reach a common goal.

Managing the External Environment - The ability to look outside the department and understand the totality of the environment within which leaders operate, engage proactively with all stakeholders, and forecast the impact of actions taken inside and outside the department to promote public trust and understanding, and ensure conditions are in place to meet the mission.

Planning and Performance Measurement - The ability to develop comprehensive plans, provide direction, prioritize resources, establish measures of success, inspire action, and ensure continuous improvement in service of the organizational mission, shared vision, and goals.

Resilience - The ability to overcome adversary, opposition, and failure and maintain steady, thoughtful progress towards a goal (mental toughness, grit, tenacity).

Strategic Thinking- The ability to forecast a broad range of alternatives, anticipate likely outcomes of individual or group actions, and consider all potential risk and impacts to stakeholders and systems. Strategic thinkers recognize the relationships, complexities, and implications of a situation; anticipating possibilities and plan for the future.

Team Building- The ability to bring people of diverse thought, experience, and skill sets together as a team, identify purpose and goals, and manage stages of development to ensure collaboration and overall performance is successful.

This position is management services and may be eligible for Police & Fire (P&F) benefits through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), as defined by statute.

Minimum Qualifications

Three (3) years of nursing experience including some supervisory and/or teaching experience which shows knowledge of a) nursing techniques and therapeutic intervention used in care and treatment of patients (specific to the employing facility); b) supervisory techniques and work management of subordinate personnel; and c) administrative and educational principles and practices involved in nursing administration.

At the time of appointment, must possess a valid Oregon Registered Professional Nurse's license.

Requested Skills

Providing professional nursing care to patients
Supervision (e.g., hire, train, assign and review work, motivate, prepare performance evaluations and handle disciplinary actions)
Adapting nursing care to the emotional needs and behavior of patients
Preparing written reports, records of nursing care given and patient progress notes
Communicating orally with a variety of people answering questions and explaining information and decisions
Coordinating patient health care services with other departments
Interpreting and applying rules, statutes, procedures, guidelines, and policies
Managing and working with confidential information including medical information

General Knowledge

Professional nursing process, methods, and procedures
Health teaching and therapeutic intervention techniques
American Nursing Association standards of psychiatric nursing
Patient rights
Human behavior and biophysical, developmental, mental, and emotional health
Personnel administration as it relates to the selection, motivation, and disciplining of employees
Principles of work organization and simplification
Administrative and educational principles and practices involved in nursing administration

In the Work Experience section of your application make sure to include the dates and duties of all relevant positions and details to support how you meet these attributes. If you do not include education or work experience meeting the minimum qualifications, you will not be considered for the position. Only the candidates whose experience most closely matches the qualifications and requested skills of this position will be invited to interview. Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications on or before the job posting close date.

Cover Letter

Please submit a formatted cover letter no longer than 3 pages clearly addressing your qualifications and experience in a Supervisory and/or Leadership role.

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