Enterhealth is a nationally recognized leader in the addiction field. The Deputy Nurse Manager is responsible for assisting the nurse manager in directing and coordinating all nursing duties.
Essential Functions
- Assist in planning, direct, control, coordinate, and evaluate the nursing program activities to provide and promote adequate nursing staffing, quality care, client rights, and compliance with Enterhealth and regulatory standards
- Comply with all Administrative, Clinical, and Human Resources policies and procedures.
- Ensure the utilization and incorporation of the Nursing Process into the Master Treatment Plan as it relates to the Nursing Care Plan.
- Assist in overseeing medical care including detoxification services.
- Assure that medication and medical treatment is administered as prescribed by a physician and that nursing care and treatment progression is documented completely and accordingly to policy.
- Manage alongside the nurse manager and provide nursing management, assessment, intervention, and crisis management.
- Function as an interdisciplinary treatment team member.
- Communicate with sensitivity to growth, development, and cultural issues.
- Maintain qualified staff and develop personnel.
- Determine needs for personnel, supplies, equipment, and physical plant.
- May provide and document client and family education.
- Participate in activities consistent with duties outlined in the Nursing Job Description.
- Utilizes EMR
- Monitors QA activities corresponding
- Maintains professional demeanor in dress, attitude and performance in support of community milieu
- Actively supports the mission, philosophy, and goals for Enterhealth
- Protects organization reputation by keeping information confidential
- Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments
- Performs other duties as required by the Nurse Manager.
- Maintains strict adherence to HIPAA.
Core Competencies
- Demonstrate personal accountability and initiative.
- Strong communications style, both written and verbal, including adherence to brand.
- Collaborative and collegial.
- Organized and detail oriented.
- Service oriented.
- Friendly and able to listen to people's needs and concerns.
- Able to explain complicated concepts clearly and concisely.
Qualifications
- Proficient in EMR
- Current Texas licensure - RN, LVN
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, preferred
- Previous experience as Nurse Manager of substance dependency treatment services preferred.
- Strong supervisory, leadership, hands-on management, and coaching skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate on various levels to include management, departmental, customer and associate levels utilizing both written and verbal skills.
- Customer service abilities including effective listening skills.
- Proficient computer skills including data entry, word processing, Outlook and Excel.
- Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: Enterhealth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. You will have some light physical demands.
WORKING CONDITIONS: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job in a typical office or administrative setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually low.
COMPENSATION: Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits program including Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k), and Basic Life and AD&D insurance.