Assistant Nurse Manager - Nurse III - Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (Denver)

Job Title

Registered Nurse

Job Description

Location: 3520 W Oxford Avenue, Denver, CO 80236 Full-Time, On-Site

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies and shifts. This position exists to provide supervision, clinical/administrative nursing consultation, and direction to registered nurses and nursing assistive personnel on the assigned shift to assure the delivery of quality patient care through the nursing process per the nursing and hospital-wide standards. Responsible for maintaining safe, adequate coverage for the inpatient units on the assigned shift. Serves as a resource or guide by advising others on how to use processes within a system or as a member of a collaborative problem-solving team.

Primary Job Duties

• Coordinates patient care in collaboration with nursing staff and other disciplines.
• Directs and consults with other RN III's and subordinate staff in their provision of patient care.
• Provides support for the delivery of patient care and provides clinical leadership.
• Assures the provision of adequate staff coverage across the hospital on off-hour shifts.
• Makes frequent rounds to each of the inpatient units and dining areas. Covers on units when necessary.
• Reassigns staff to other units when the situation dictates.
• Obtains coverage for call-offs or when additional staffing is required due to acuity.
• Communicate with multiple departments, such as dietary, operator, lab, hospital security, and housekeeping.
• Functions as a liaison between off-hour nursing staff and nursing service administration and communicates incidents, injuries, and critical incidents to nursing and hospital administration.
• Participates in staff meetings and hospital/nursing committees.
• Assist staff in handling complications about off-hour admissions.
• May escort patients to activities and appointments on the grounds and in the community, including driving patients to appointments.
• Assumes responsibility for paperwork, assuring confidentiality.

Staff Supervision and Staff Development

• Promotes staff development and training at shift level by supporting staff compliance with hospital-wide mandatory training, (i.e., CPR, infection control, safety, medication review, and seclusion/restraint), attending Code Blue events and drills, fire drills, and in-services.
• Assures ongoing assessment of staff training needs and provides in-the-moment training as needed.
• Coordinates with Nurse Managers to provide employee orientation to new staff.
• Provide direct supervision for 4-8 internal float pool staff.
• Participates in job interviews and provides input into decisions about hiring staff.
• Monitors for compliance with standards of nursing practice and standards of patient care.
• Monitors staff performance, coaching and counseling, and performance management reviews.

Responds and Provides Leadership in Emergency Situations

• Assumes leadership role in crises.
• Respond immediately to all psychiatric and medical emergencies, i.e., Code Blue, accidents, injuries, fires, and all other disasters.
• Proactively identifies the potential impact of non-routine or non-predictable events on the usual routine, i.e., suicide attempts, serious assaults, admissions, or discharges, and makes changes to address these events safely and appropriately.
• Oversee the utilization and appropriate implementation of seclusion/restraint, emergency medications, etc.
• Notifies appropriate personnel of incidents, injuries, etc.
• Assists staff in handling angry or impaired visitors.

Monitors Quality of Patient Care

• Monitors for quality care, assuring the delivery of patient care according to nursing, hospital, and accreditation standards.
• Complete specific quality improvement monitors/audits for the Nursing Service office.
• Keep staff informed of changes in hospital and division policies.

Document Reports and Maintain Records

• Ensures iNotify documentation is completed and documentation of the incident is in the patient's medical records as needed.
• Transcribe physician's orders, give shift reports, and chart medication and their effectiveness when providing coverage on the team.
• Complete the Off-hour Nursing Supervision report for each shift worked, assuring that the report is sent to Hospital Management and other staff, as indicated.

Maintains Skills/Competency

• Maintains updated skills, knowledge, abilities, and competencies necessary to the position through continuing education, clinical supervision, clinical/administrative supervision, and literature review to ensure that nursing practice is evidence-based, best practice, and within the standards of professional nursing practice.

Other duties as assigned:

• May need to cover for nurses on treatment teams.
• Other duties as assigned for this position.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:

Current, valid licensure as a Registered Nurse from the Colorado Board of Nursing or any state participating in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) Three (3) years of professional experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position

Substitutions:

Appropriate education will substitute for up to two (2) years of the required experience on a year-for-year basis

Special Qualification: Maintains active and unencumbered Colorado Registered Nurse License

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in long-term care or assisted living facility; experience with staff development.
• Experience as a supervisor
• Experience working with individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities;
• Experience working with individuals with mental health diagnoses.
• Experience multi-tasking and prioritizing assignments;
• Caring, supportive, accountable leader;
• Willing to work on an interdisciplinary team and problem-solve solutions to improve services.

Conditions of Employment:

1. Disclose that information on the application.
2. Explain why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify you from the current position.
3. Provide your employee number from your prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Supplemental Information

How to apply to the State of Colorado

The Assessment Process

About Us & Benefits:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401(k) and 457 plans
• Medical and dental health plans
• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
• Paid life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
• State of Colorado Employee BenefitHub Resource Center
• Employee Wellness program
• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more
• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions
• *Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Our Values:

• We believe in a people-first approach: We prioritize the needs, well-being, and dignity of the individuals, families and communities we serve. We commit to respect, fairness and access in every decision, policy and interaction. We engage client voices and experiences in the development and implementation of the services we provide.
• Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.
• We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions,