Nursing Services Manager

UHS•Winston-Salem, NC

18h

About The Position

Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services is a private psychiatric hospital serving the Piedmont Triad community. Its 164-bed inpatient services support adolescents through older adults with assessments, psychiatric evaluations, medication stabilization, group therapy, and aftercare planning. The hospital also offers Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Treatment Programs and is accredited by The Joint Commission and certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Nursing Services Manager is responsible for delivering quality nursing care to patients across all units. The role oversees unit activities and staffing, supports employees through education and onboarding, helps maintain regulatory readiness, and manages Registered Nurses and Mental Health Technicians as part of the nursing team.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing with a bachelor's degree; candidates without a BSN must be currently pursuing one and able to obtain it within two years of hire or transfer.
Five years of experience as a Registered Nurse.
One year of nursing management experience.
Two years of psychiatric nursing experience.
Current North Carolina Registered Nurse license or compact-state license.
AHA CPR and First Aid certification.
Knowledge of current nursing procedures, the nursing process, medications, and their correct administration.
Demonstrated leadership, communication, teaching, and supervisory skills.
Knowledge of appropriate nursing assessment, diagnoses, and interventions.
Ability to accurately administer medications and treatments and monitor and record patient responses and side effects.
Ability to safely implement Special Treatment Procedures.
Ability to assist with educating patients and families about medication and care management.
Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Knowledge of human behavior or psychology principles, including therapeutic relationships and processes, age-specific growth and development, limit setting, crisis management, and behavior management.
Ability to meet the physical requirements of the role, including climbing stairs and ramps; maintaining balance; stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling; reaching, standing for sustained periods, pushing, pulling, lifting, moving objects, fingering, grasping, feeling, and repetitive motions.
Ability to speak clearly and accurately, sometimes loudly, and to hear detailed oral communication.

Responsibilities

Ensure the delivery of quality nursing care for patients on all units.
Adjust staffing as necessary across shifts.
Oversee unit activities, including admissions, discharges, milieu management, adherence to the unit schedule, crisis intervention, restraint and/or seclusion, and providing break or meal relief.
Provide on-the-spot and ongoing education to employees.
Assist the hospital with maintaining regulatory readiness and participate in regulatory site visits as required.
Manage Registered Nurses and Mental Health Technicians, including day-to-day personnel issues, orientation and onboarding, and 90-day and annual performance evaluations.
Engage positively and communicate with patients, staff, families, and providers while managing competing priorities under pressure.