Nurse Manager, Children's Residential

Overview Join a Team That Changes Lives For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change - helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives. Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives - including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters. At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer: 1. Generous Paid Time Off 2. Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages 3. Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay 4. Paid On-the-Job Training 5. Tuition Reimbursement 6. Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth 7. Flexible Schedules 8. Retirement Savings Plan Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today. Job Description Elwyn is seeking a Nurse Manager to support other nursing team members in providing normalized, empathetic, therapeutic, and preventative health care to children and adolescents with intellectual / developmental disabilities, and autism. As a key member of the Children's Residential Treatment Facility (CRTF) nursing leadership team, the Nurse Manager oversees the functions associated with managing the nursing needs of individuals in the CRTF, care coordination, and the delivery of nursing services while ensuring that both regulatory and clinical practice standards are met. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Nurse Manager: Ensures ongoing medical assessment, coordination, and interdisciplinary team collaboration that is necessary to meet client health care needs Ensures that appropriate health care assessments and reports are accurate and completed by the interdisciplinary treatment team, per established policy and procedures, and ensures regulatory requirements through tasks including, but not limited to, intake assessment, and routine assessments for individuals on antipsychotics (including Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale [AIMS], and applicable labs) Collects data through direct observation, interview, clinical assessment, and records; presents updates to the psychiatrist and larger interdisciplinary team; attends and actively participates in Treatment Team Rounds Sets health care priorities, including but not limited to medication administration, vital sign monitoring, and wound care in accordance with standard of care and professional judgment without jeopardizing the safety of the children In collaboration with the larger interdisciplinary treatment team, monitors, develops, and maintains a safe and therapeutic living environment, including, but not limited to, monitoring for potential threats to health and safety and taking appropriate actions to eliminate such threats Provides supervision of assigned staff in the areas including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, leadership, coaching, training on health-related topics, medical procedures, and infection control as needed; assists with the training and orientation of new nursing employees; performance management, promotion, discipline, and termination Ensures annual physicals are completed with the Primary Care Physician (PCP), and presents to the larger interdisciplinary team ensuring that all health care needs have been addressed to ensure quality of client care Reviews recommendations of consulting pharmacist and liaisons with physicians and care providers for necessary follow-up including but not limited to medication changes, and altering medication administration times, to ensure continuity and quality of client care Works closely with family members/legal guardians/health care decision-makers for the children supported in the CRTF to identify, and communicate client health care needs, changes, and actions eing taken to address them Serves as a resource person for questions related to health and wellness issues (e.g. nutrition, exercise) around the quality of care of the children served Monitors physician's orders, Medication Administration Records (MARs), and relevant documentation to ensure that medications are properly and safely administered to reduce the risk of medication errors and injuries Reviews critical incidents related to the health and safety needs of the children, and ensures that there is accurate, detailed, and timely follow-up and documentation of such via daily progress notes, communication to program staff, and communication, whether in person, via phone or through email, with the Nursing Supervisor for addition to the Nursing Supervisor Shift Report Liaisons with external pharmacies, durable medical equipment (DME) providers, vendors, specialists, community-based providers, and insurers to ensure that client-specific needs are met in a clinically prudent and fiscally-sound manner Assists in accessing community-based services and care providers, especially in emergency situations Utilizes quality improvement strategies to address the following: Clinical performance of nursing staff through monthly audits of nursing documentation and care delivery Use of best practice guidelines in promoting health maintenance and disease prevention strategies Compliance with regulatory standards as they relate to specific program areas, such as licensing regulations and current policy Access to high quality care consistent with individuals' specific needs Ensure that all program based medical and nursing equipment is clean, well kept, and in good working order, arranging replacement as needed Inventory of nutritional supplements, medical equipment, and medical/dietary supplies Health care utilization data Assigns specific quality improvement activities/functions, such as medical record reviews or observations, to nursing staff to ensure compliance with regulatory standards Performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid, safe crisis intervention, and medication administration using agency-trained protocols Provides round the clock on-call nursing support to assigned staff, via telephone communication, text, and/or email with the Shift Supervisors, to manage emergent healthcare issues, including but not limited to possible infection, fainting, abnormal vital signs, vomiting, that occur during off hours Provides weekend (Friday at 4:00pm to Monday at 8:00am) and holiday on-call coverage, as an on-call Nurse Manager to ensure quality of care for individuals; 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