Chief Nursing Officer (Behavioral Health)

Advatix, Inc. • Westminster, CO

4d • $140,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) will collaborate with interdisciplinary treatment teams, other departments, and administration to ensure all residents’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental, and cultural needs are met. The CNO will also acknowledge and work to resolve customer complaints when needs are not met. This role involves directing, supervising, and evaluating the work activities of all nursing personnel, providing clinical leadership, and setting strategic and long-term goals for the nursing staff. The CNO will anticipate and effectively manage changes in census and acuity, allocating nursing resources based on patient acuity and care needs. They will serve as a role model for customer service and demonstrate a sense of urgency regarding patient safety. Additionally, the CNO will determine, assign, and assess performance objectives for the nursing department and organize, coordinate, develop, and review policies, procedures, and nursing protocols within the facility to meet all regulatory, compliance, and quality care standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or commensurate experience required.
• 2 years behavioral health experience as and RN in an inpatient psychiatric setting required
• 3 years of progressive nursing management or administrative nursing experience required.
• 6 years RN experience required.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in nursing or mental health nursing strongly preferred.
• 10+ Years RN experience preferred.
• Nursing leadership experience in a freestanding psychiatric hospital strongly preferred.
• Prior CNO/DON experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary treatment teams, other departments and administration to ensure that all residents’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met and when they are not met, acknowledges and works to resolve customer complaints.
• Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of all nursing personnel.
• Provide clinical leadership, strategic and long-term goals for the nursing staff.
• Anticipates and effectively manage changes in census and acuity and allocates nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care needed.
• Role model expectations related to customer service and demonstrated sense of urgency related to the importance of patient safety.
• Determine, assign, and assess performance objectives for nursing department.
• Organize, coordinate, develop and review policies, procedures and nursing protocols within the facility to meet all regulatory, compliance and quality care standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree