West Pines Behavioral Hospital is a new 144-bed inpatient behavioral health facility serving Denver area residents. It is a joint venture between Intermountain Health and Acadia Healthcare, providing comprehensive inpatient and intensive outpatient services to address the growing need for accessible, high-quality behavioral health care in the Denver metro area. The purpose of this role is to provide day-to-day oversight of nursing operations, ensure adequate staffing for patient care, and oversee the delivery of behavioral health/nursing services with a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude. This role collaborates with interdisciplinary treatment teams and other departments to meet resident needs, resolves customer complaints, and ensures compliance with regulations and nursing practice standards, prioritizing patient safety. The position involves managing census and acuity changes, allocating nursing resources, enforcing policies, ensuring proper staffing, overseeing chart checks and documentation, conducting rounds and audits, assisting with staff orientation and competency, providing mentoring and training, ensuring facility compliance with standards, coordinating patient care, documenting medical and nursing information, administering medications, assisting in developing and updating care plans, prioritizing tasks, delegating staff, managing admissions and discharges, informing physicians of patient condition changes, utilizing administrator-on-call for escalated situations, and providing direct care as needed.
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level