Associate Director Of Nursing

Position Overview

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a licensed Registered Nurse to serve as Assistant Director of Nursing and to oversee and supervise professional and paraprofessional nursing staff in the care and treatment of psychiatric patients at the Elgin Mental Health Center located in Elgin Illinois. The Elgin Mental Health Center provides treatment for release and restoration of the people we service. It is a place of hope for the healing of mind body and spirit where many find health and happiness again. Recovery is our vision.

Essential Functions

• Serves as Associate Director of Nursing (ADON).
• Serves as full-line supervisor.
• Assigns and verifies that staff attend mandatory in-service programs.
• Develops and maintains good interpersonal relations with staff.
• Monitors the Nursing Quality Improvement (QI) Plan to ensure it is utilized to assist in the evaluation of patient care.
• Reviews the therapeutic environment aspects of the nursing process to ensure they consist of assessments care plans treatment plans interventions and documentation in progress notes in order to meet the standards of EMHC and outside reviewing bodies.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerative above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois.
• Requires knowledge skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in nursing.
• Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in nursing.
• Three (3) years of professional experience working in a psychiatric hospital.
• Three (3) years of professional supervisory experience assigning work providing guidance to subordinates recommending counseling and/or discipline following collective bargaining agreements training staff approving time off and preparing and signing performance evaluations.
• Three (3) years of professional experience recommending and implementing nursing policies and procedures relative to the latest trends and nursing standards.
• Three (3) years of professional experience recommending or preparing nursing treatment plans for patients.
• Three (3) years of professional experience providing training to paraprofessional and professional nursing staff.
• Three (3) years of professional experience performing quality assurance assessments on nursing services and treatments provided to patients.

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 stand and walk for a significant period of time including stooping bending lifting or exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally.
• Requires the ability to physically restrain patients or managing the milieu during a crisis event.
• Requires the ability to work after business hours weekends and holidays.
• This position has been found to meet the requirements in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act requiring the occupant/employee to file a Statement of Economic Interest. The Illinois Governmental Ethics Act (5 ILCS 420/4A et seq.) requires certain state officials and employees to file annual Statements of Economic Interest with the Office of the Secretary of State that will be made available for examination and copying by the public. All employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interest are also required to file the Supplemental Statement of Economic Interest with the Executive Ethics Commission. (See Executive Order 15-09) Fines and penalties apply to untimely filings.

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