Title: RN Manager I-Unit Manager
State Role Title: Registered Nurse Manager I
Hiring Range: Minimum Salary: $107,812/year - Salary Commensurate with Relevant Years of Experience
Pay Band: 5
Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop
Location: Southwestern VA Mtl Hlth Inst
Agency Website: www.swvmhi.dbhds.virginia.gov
Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties
SWVMHI has four Unit Nurse Coordinator (UNC) positions: one each for the two parts of Acute Admission Unit (AB and CD total census is 71), one for Geriatric Unit (EF census 41), and one for Extended Rehabilitation Services (HIJ census 63). Approximate numbers of nursing employees on each unit average between 70 and 100 fulltime positions.
UNCs are expert Psychiatric Nurses, Managers, and Leaders responsible to ensure quality nursing care is provided on an identified unit 24 hours a day/7 day a week to clients on the road to recovery from mental illness by:
• Providing management and leadership to all levels and all shifts of unit-based nursing
staff members who provide nursing care in a safe, secure, and therapeutic
environment for both forensic and non-forensic adult and/or geriatric clients with
mental illness as a primary diagnosis.
• Collaborating assertively as part of an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental team to
provide, observe, communicate, and encourage interventions, treatments, and
behaviors that promote holistic well-being and achieves satisfactory results.
• Ensuring the Nursing Process is integrated within the Comprehensive Treatment Plan
and carried out according to professional nursing standards through effective
collaboration between nursing roles, facility shifts, departments, and disciplines,
promoting recovery concepts.
• Creating and role modeling healthy interpersonal interactions with staff and clients.
• Overseeing that medication administration and treatments are done according to
standards, client/family and education are carried out, and leadership is provided
during interventions for emergency situations.
• Ensuring fiscally responsible work schedules for unit/shift based direct care staff and
that short term staffing needs are met by effective nursing recruitment, retention, and
creative use of resources.
• Collaborating with Unit Program Director, Nursing Administration, and Fiscal
Department to oversee unit budget.
• Coordinating unit and department-based performance improvement activities and
staff education meet TJC and CMS accreditation and that other regulatory/oversight
agency standards are met.
• Covering on an occasional basis for the Chief Nurse Officer or Assistant Nurse
Executive.
• Directly supervising and documenting the performance of an assigned group of about
5-10 staff members which includes Head Nurses and possibly Team Nurses, Ward
Clerk CNAs, and/or Lead CNAs.
Minimum Qualifications
• Must be a Licensed Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia or applicant status
Additional Considerations
• Prefer significant experience in an inpatient treatment setting related to adult mental
health.
• Strongly prefer significant experience in middle management with supervision of
various levels of nursing staff.
• Computer skills are needed.
Special Instructions
You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.
Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute (SWVMHI) only accepts online applications via PAGEUP. Resumes and other documents may accompany the application but will not serve as a substitute for an application. Faxed, e-mailed, or mailed applications will not be accepted. Please refer to your PAGEUP account for the status of your application and this position. For classified positions, postings will remain open for a minimum of five (5) business days.
SWVMHI is an Equal Opportunity Employer located in Marion, VA. Employment opportunities are open to all regardless of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, political affiliation, genetics, or disability.
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their Certificate of Disability (COD) provided by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor within the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their Certificate of Disability. If you need to get a Certificate of Disability, use this link: Career Pathways for Individuals with Disabilities, or call DARS at 800-552-5019, or DBVI at 800-622-2155.
A fingerprint-based criminal history check, a Department of Social Services/Child Protective Services check, and drug testing is required for the selected candidate for this position. Under Virginia Code 37.2-314 and 37.2-408.1, the Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services is prohibited from employing or using as volunteers, persons who have been convicted of specific ("barrier") crimes or persons who may be the subject of pending ("barrier") charges (Go to the code sections to see barrier crimes and related information).
Contact Information
Name: Rebecca Richardson
Phone: 276-706-3516
Email: rebecca.richardson@dbhds.virginia.gov
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.
Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.