Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Behavioral Health

Intermedia Group•Tucson, AZ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a new start-up Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) position in Behavioral Health located in Tucson, Arizona. The role requires a strong leader with extensive inpatient behavioral health experience, nursing leadership expertise, and ideally, experience in a start-up environment. The CNO will set the vision for nursing practice, ensuring safe, timely, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care. This includes collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, managing nursing personnel, and developing strategic goals for the nursing staff. The position involves anticipating and managing changes in census and acuity, allocating resources, and serving as a role model for customer service and patient safety. Key responsibilities include determining and assessing performance objectives, organizing and reviewing policies and procedures to meet regulatory and quality standards, and overseeing the operational and financial efficiency of the nursing department. The CNO will also lead and develop nursing staff, manage the departmental budget, and handle staff management functions such as hiring, development, training, and performance management. The role may require providing direct patient care as needed.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

10+ Years RN experience preferred.
Nursing leadership experience in a freestanding psychiatric hospital.
Prior CNO/DON experience.
Candidate to have start up exp if possible.
Master’s degree in nursing or mental health nursing strongly preferred.
Nursing leadership experience in a freestanding psychiatric hospital strongly preferred.
Prior CNO/DON experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Sets the vision for nursing practice in the delivery of safe, timely, efficient, equitable and patient centered care.
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.
Responsible for the quality of care, operational and financial efficiency of the nursing department.
Lead and develop the nursing staff within the facility, providing performance goals, feedback and development opportunities.
Set and carry out policies, goals and procedures for their function or department.
Evaluate the quality of care, staff's work and the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the function or department.
Develop and oversee functions or departmental budget and reporting.
Provide staff management to include hiring, development, training, performance management and communication to ensure effective and efficient department operation.
Provide direct care as needed.
Direct and conduct recruitment, hiring and training of personnel.