Director of Nursing

Director Of Nursing

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Salary : $120,000-$150,000

A nationally recognized comprehensive Health and Human Services Agency, with over 60 programs across New York City and greater New York Area.

Samaritan Daytop Village, serves over 33,000 New Yorkers annually within your neighborhoods and communities so our success depends on those we employ.

The Role

Under general direction, the Director of Nursing is responsible for the overall management of nursing staff employed in the Clinical division. Management responsibilities include assuming authority, responsibility and accountability for the delivery of nursing services in the division. Provides direct supervision of nursing staff and coordinates patient medical care in order to ensure the delivery of timely, appropriate and a high caliber quality of care. Collaborates with other departments, medical professionals, consultants, organizations and advocacy groups to develop, support and coordinate care, related administrative functions and to represent the interests of the division. This work is carried out in support of the mission and goals of Samaritan Daytop Village.

Responsibilities

What You Will Do

• Leads subordinate nursing staff in delivering excellent care to clients and offers quality support to medical staff.
• Monitors completion of medical support and nursing staff assignments, identifies lags in daily flow and intervenes as necessary to improve efficiency. Maintains and / or improves levels of productivity set by administration and needs of clients.
• Interviews, hires, fires, disciplines, provides in-service orientation, trains and completes competency evaluations for agency nursing staff.
• Supervises care provided by nursing staff (RNs and LPNs) to ensure conformance with regulations, current competency and best practice standards.
• Provides medication administration training and competency evaluation for agency's Health Care Coordinators. Instructs and evaluates competency of nursing staff and Health Care Coordinators.
• Creates new policies and updates existing policies to help improve level of care for patients served.
• Communicates and interprets policies and procedures to nursing staff and monitors staff practices and implementation.
• Provides direct patient care as needed.
• Assists physicians by identifying, reporting and addressing changes in patient's health status.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and application of key Clinical Indicators and proactively monitors and implements systems to achieve and surpass agency thresholds.
• Communicates daily with clinical staff to identify client needs so that they can be incorporated into daily work schedule.

Qualifications

Who You Will Be