RN Psychiatric Clinical Supervisor (NIGHT SHIFT)

Masonicare Corp•Wallingford, CT

9d•Onsite

About The Position

This role coordinates the daily clinical operations of the unit and directs the delivery of patient care within a 50-bed Behavioral Health Hospital Unit. The supervisor oversees the integrated care plan to ensure holistic, medical, spiritual, and emotional care, emphasizing quality, dignity, compassion, and confidentiality. They uphold nursing practice standards for optimal clinical outcomes and ensure the team utilizes quality customer service principles.

Requirements

Graduate of school of professional nursing
BSN required or working towards
Two years acute care clinical experience
Current Connecticut State RN licensure required

Nice To Haves

Knowledge in financial, regulatory and legal aspects of healthcare preferred

Responsibilities

Acts as a role model for staff by promoting professional practice through effective team building, communication, and advocacy.
Identifies opportunities for workflow/operational improvement in patient care planning and care delivery and presents to Director, Acute and Psychiatric Services using evidenced-based literature.
Demonstrates and promotes critical thinking skills and effective nursing judgment in patient interactions and role models behaviors for staff.
Manages the assignment process on a daily basis, including delegating assignments, completing patient assignment sheets, making appropriate changes to assignments as patient/unit needs change, communicating changes in level of care/acuity, ensuring tasks are carried out, ensuring staff arrive and depart on time, and reporting variances.
Acts as a liaison between interdisciplinary team members to ensure behavioral care plans are developed and appropriate, and the nursing care plan is updated.
Attends Team meetings and participates as the clinical representative, facilitating the development of behavioral interventions and communicating plans to clinical staff.
Shares appropriate patient information and concerns.
Documents and updates treatment plans per unit policy.
Coordinates scheduled discharges with the team and reports the plan to assigned staff for preparation.
Communicates 1:1 status every shift and if able to D/C 1:1 goal no more than 3 on 1:1 at a time.
Participates in the change of shift report for 1st and 2nd shifts, ensuring a timely start, that all staff members have received report, and that all nursing staff have taped shift report.
Rounds with unit staff daily and throughout the shift to assess unit activity regarding patient flow, changes in patient acuity, troubleshoot throughput issues, and mediate other issues/concerns.
Takes lead on incident reporting and ensures all required documentation and notifications are complete prior to final submission.
Updates care plans and patient profiles as patient conditions change.
Ensures that inter-shift environmental rounds are completed.
Ensures that all immediate concerns related to patient care, staff, the environment, IT, etc. are directly reported to the Director.
Manages staffing needs to ensure the unit has adequate staffing for the shift, including reaching out to staff to cover callouts and existing holes.
Participates in a rotating on-call schedule to address any immediate needs or crisis related to patient care, environment, staffing, etc.