Director of Nursing

Why You Will Love Working with Us!

At Pasadena Villa - The Grove, we are a dynamic, dedicated, and growing team of professionals deeply passionate about providing evidence-based and personalized clinical care for behavioral health conditions.

Our team’s foundation is client-centered care and clinical excellence through our 5-star service commitment – Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Flexibility, Service, and Collaboration. We are committed to our team and our team is committed to our clients!

Located centrally between DC and Richmond and nestled in a serene residential community, The Grove offers a tranquil, modern environment designed to support healing and recovery. It features spacious, open-floor areas for communal gatherings, peaceful outdoor courtyards, spaces for quiet reflection, a fitness center, and expansive rooms dedicated to group therapy and activities.

As a residential psychiatric treatment center, we offer customizable, comprehensive care for a wide range of mental health disorders. Our primary goal is to equip our clients with the tools they need to successfully transition to everyday life. Our convenient suburban setting is the perfect environment to escape the busyness of daily life and slow down enough to focus on healing.

What we offer

• Collaborative environment dedicated to clinical excellence
• Multiple Career Development Pathways
• Company Supported Continuing Education & Certification
• Multiple Health Plan Design Options Available
• Flexible Dental & Vision Plan Options
• 100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
• 100% Company Paid Critical Illness (with health enrollment plan)
• 100% Company Paid Life & ADD
• 401K with Company Match
• Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax Savings Accounts
• Generous Team Member Referral Program
• Parental Leave

Position Summary

The Director of Nursing (DON) is responsible for coordinating and supervising the facility’s nursing staff. Position is responsible for ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment. The Director of Nursing provides direct client care, takes physician orders, prepares, and administers resident medications, and coordinates outside diagnostic or medical services as ordered by the physician. This position will serve as the Infection Control Designee.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Maintains frequent and close working relationships with the facility Executive Director, National Director of Admissions, Nursing team, Milieu Supervisor, facility leadership, peers and vendors.

Outside the organization: May initiate and maintain working relationships with clinical providers, referral partners, clients and vendors as needed and directed.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and supervision to the nursing team, to include hiring, training, coaching and performance management.
• Oversees and performs daily vital signs/glucose monitoring of clients.
• Oversees and performs medication distribution and documentation, identifies medical issues daily, reports issues to Nurse Practitioner as needed.
• Orders medication and ensures proper delivery from pharmacy.
• Works with insurance companies on patient medications, completes insurance forms, and calls as needed.
• Oversees and performs blood draws, following up on lab values as needed.
• Takes medication orders from MD/NP conducts daily medication order follow up.
• Maintains medical supply inventory, places supply orders as needed.
• Coordinates external client medical appointments with team members.
• Ensures all admission/discharge nursing duties are conducted and documented within required timeframes.
• Ensures effective communication between medical/nursing staff, medical vendors, and direct care team.
• Provides medication management and oversite ensuring accurate accounting of medication charting/procedures/training for all nursing staff.
• Monitors all labs/EKGs/other tests and communicating results with medical providers.
• Oversees all pharmacy paperwork/forms-includes controlled substances.
• Oversees infection control program and quarantine program for staff/clients.
• Maintains biohazard accounts and procedures, ensuring team members are trained on and adhere to infection control procedures.
• Manages the nursing area including ensuring that medications are secured, and only authorized individuals have access.
• Ensures all admission/discharge nursing duties are conducted and documented within required timeframes.
• Works closely with vendors and contractors providing clinical services (i.e. pharmacy, lab, biohazard pick up, etc.) to ensure proper communication and procedures are followed; provides account management.

Additional Responsibilities

• Conducts occasional reviews with insurance companies.
• Coordinates and oversees administration of annual vaccines.
• Participates in on-call rotation, as scheduled.

Education and Experience

Position requires a bachelor’s degree in nursing, active state Registered Nurse license, and 5 years of experience Nursing/Clinical Experience. Previous mental health treatment experience strongly preferred.

Must maintain current CPR/1st Aid/ AED certification.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to communicate with peers/general public, clients and/or vendors.
• Tolerant to various noise levels: noise level in the work environment varies – may be very quiet to moderate.
• Job performance will require the ability to move throughout the building as well as sit or remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to talk or hear, sit, stand, walk, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, taste or smell.
• Ability to move up to 25 pounds.

Other Requirements

• Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.
• Clearance of TB test and any other mandatory state/federal requirements.
• Successful completion of Criminal Background Check through DBHDS, Background Investigation Unit, and VDSS Registry Searches.

Skill Competencies

• Demonstrates a high level of customer service.
• Demonstrates a high attention to detail and organizational and prioritizing skills.
• Demonstrates proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrates the ability to welcome and integrate feedback from team.
• Demonstrates the ability to assess suicide/homicide risk and create clinically appropriate interventions.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and report abuse/neglect in client population.
• Demonstrates the ability to chart vitals, daily assessments, group notes, shift notes, and enters physician orders.
• Demonstrates the ability to perform physical assessments including vital signs and to recognize symptoms and distress of clients in treatment.
• Demonstrates proper management of biohazards.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving and analytical skills and the ability to use sound judgement.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills, while building and maintaining professional relationships.
• Demonstrates a strong belief in and commitment to the values, goals and mission of the Company.

Pasadena Villa provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Pasadena Villa reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”

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