DIRECTOR OF NURSING

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Position Overview

The Division of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire an Illinois licensed Registered Nurse to provide nursing leadership and oversight of the nursing services provided at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna.  The Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center serves a broad spectrum of individuals with behavioral and medical needs.

Essential Functions

• Serves as Director of Nursing for the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center.

• Serves as full-line supervisor.

• Develops, reviews and coordinates the revision of nursing services policies and procedures, manual revisions, and standards review.

• Develops in-service education programs for professional and paraprofessional nursing staff.

• Develops nursing services staffing plan for the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center.

• Provides input in budget preparation activities, reviews specialized equipment/supply needs, prioritizes requests, and recommends items for order/purchase.

• Conducts personal inspections of the various offices and living units to determine cleanliness, compliance with Federal, State, Agency, etc., policies and procedures, drug security measures and certification standards.

• Conducts staff meetings with both subordinate managers and other subordinate staff to discuss new policies and procedures.

• Provides active nursing care to patients.

• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois.

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college with coursework in nursing.

• Requires prior experience equivalent to four years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years of professional experience supervising paraprofessional and professional nursing staff, assigning work, providing guidance to subordinates, recommending counseling and/or discipline following collective bargaining agreements, training staff and preparing and singing performance evaluations.

• Three (3) years of professional experience performing quality assurance assessments to improve the quality of care delivered to individuals.

• Three (3) years of professional experience directing and managing the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a nursing services program for a public or private organization to ensure that all individuals care is done in a complete, effective, proper and timely manner.

• Three (3) years of professional experience providing advice and guidance regarding the most difficult nursing issues.

• Two (2) years of professional experience recommending and implementing nursing policies and procedures relative to latest trends and nursing standards.

• Two (2) years of professional experience developing budget and staffing plans for a public or private organization.

• One (1) year of basic proficiency in the use of office equipment, including personal computers and basic computer skills.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.

• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and holidays on a rotation basis.

• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.

• Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individuals or others.

• Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.

• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.