Nurse Manager-First Shift

Avenues Recovery•Fort Wayne, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Avenues Recovery Center is seeking a Nurse Manager for the First Shift (Monday - Friday, 8am - 4:30pm). This role is responsible for ensuring quality, compassionate, and timely medical care for all clients, seamless coordination of care between departments and external providers, and overseeing medication inventory, logs, and authorizations. The Nurse Manager will also oversee and direct all nursing and medical support staff, maintain medical workflow processes, and ensure quality medical documentation and charting standards.

Requirements

Minimum one year diploma program post - high school
Valid RN licensure necessary to practice nursing in-state, or compact licensure with multistate privileges
Excellent oral and written communication and critical thinking skills
Strong collaborative, multitasking, and time-management skills
Natural leadership abilities with commitment to excellence

Nice To Haves

one year experience in substance use treatment field preferred

Responsibilities

Ensure quality, compassionate, and timely medical care for every Avenues client
Ensure seamless coordination of client care between medical and clinical departments, UR team, external healthcare providers, and pharmacies
Oversee all medication inventory, logs, and authorizations, lab shipments and reports, medical supplies and equipment etc.
Oversee and direct all nursing and medical support staff (interviews, onboarding, training, retention, scheduling, shift coverage, HR needs, and performance reviews)
Maintain medical workflow process and conduct ongoing reviews of protocol and operations
Ensure quality medical documentation and charting standards through weekly chart review