RN House Supervisor

Job Posting

Bakersfield Behavioral Healthcare Hospital, located in Bakersfield, California, is an acute psychiatric and behavioral 90-bed facility situated on 8.8 acres.

We offer inpatient and outpatient services for children, adolescents, and adults needing mental/behavioral health, chemical dependency; and co-occurring disorders treatment through our medically supervised detoxification.

Within our Workplace Community, BBHH is striving daily to be one of the BEST PLACES TO WORK not just here in Kern County, but throughout the Behavioral Healthcare Community.

By offering amazing benefits, encouraging individual growth and development, and incorporating our CARES values system into our daily operations, we are creating a JUST workplace culture where people enjoy coming to work each day.

BBHH CARES about your experience as a candidate and we encourage you to apply to our open positions.

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Job Summary

Our progressive and dedicated healthcare team strives to change the lives of our patients and provide exceptional care.

This is a fast pace environment that requires critical thinking, teamwork and good communication between staff and patients. We are looking for a Registered Nurse, House Supervisor to help with BBHH's vision of providing that excellent care and striving to be the best hospital we can be.

1. Demonstrates sound leadership skills and utilizes these skills in organizing the activities and schedules for medical and/or non-medical tasks of the Child, Adolescent and Adult for a given shift, while supervising clinical staff working with patients.
2. Consistently high quality of clinical and interpersonal skills to be an exemplary role model to other staff, Thorough working knowledge of Hospital, Nursing and HR policies/procedures, with demonstrated ability to use skills in clinical and leadership situations.
3. Record of consistently high quality of clinical and interpersonal skills to be an exemplary role model to others;
4. Displays basic knowledge of treatment procedures; interventions common to acute psychotic as well as non-violent crises intervention practice;
5. Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in the child or adolescent psychiatric population, application of this knowledge to child, adolescent or adult knowledge of medical terminology, especially those terms associated with child, adolescent or adult psychiatric care;
6. Thorough familiarity of psych pharmacy and the use of psychotropic medications with child, adolescent or adult psychiatric population, basic teaching and training skills helpful; problem-solving;
7. Organizational and time management; crisis intervention skills;
8. Written and oral communication skills; skills in facilitating and/or co-facilitating process-oriented and didactic groups.

This nursing department leadership position is in our Inpatient units.

The attention to detail and level of situational awareness required of the staff in the Inpatient Unit is paramount to the success of all patient outcomes.

Our CARES values system must be on display in every act of patient care, no matter the circumstances.

BBHH is a fast-paced environment that requires critical thinking, teamwork, and excellent communication between staff and patients.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse, House Supervisor to provide excellent care and to join our Workplace Community in our effort to be the best hospital we can be.

Bakersfield Behavioral Healthcare Hospital