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Job Description

GEO Care, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The GEO Group, Inc. GEO is a premier provider of behavioral healthcare and other special needs services to state and local government agencies including management and treatment services for forensic and civil mental health hospitals, long-term care and geriatric centers, sex offender and other special needs facilities.

Columbia Regional Care Center in Columbia, South Carolina is managed and operated by GEO Care and is fully licensed and accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare (NCCHC).  Columbia Regional Care Center offers 374 beds providing sub-acute, skilled intermediate and hospice care for conditions such as AIDS, cancer, cardiac disease, dialysis, life support, mental health treatment and special needs programs.

As a member of the facility management team, this position plans, organizes, and directs the functions of the nursing department. This position assumes a primary role in ensuring the delivery of high quality, efficient nursing care. Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
 

• CNO provides overall leadership of the nursing and professional staffs to ensure consistent, high-quality care
• Responsible for strategic planning and performance improvement across for all respective assigned departments, the continuum of care. Also responsible for oversight and day-to-day operations/problem solving.
• Maintains substantial involvement in departmental activities to ensure consistency with all applicable standards, state and federal as well as alignment of staffing and contractual requirements. The candidate will assure consistency between strategic goals, human resources management and resource management.
• Participates in the operations of the implementation of and operations active treatment in all patient living areas and ensures with Program director that patients are involves in at least four (4) hours of treatment plan related activities per day.
• Interviews, hires new staff for available positions in service area and assures initial competencies are met prior to offer of positions.
• Responsible to assure effective , safe scheduling is correctly managed.
• Approves and monitors use of all leave requests, including use of overtime and comp. time.
• Completes performance reviews for direct reports and provides input to evaluation of staff reporting to manager or supervisor. Responsible for total performance of department.
• Reviews all recommendations for corrective action or discharge. Assists managers or supervisors in resolving complex employee relations problems. Takes corrective action for staff in area(s) of responsibility.
• Determines what will be accomplished department-wide with available resources. Establishes related departmental procedures and assures adherence to such.
• Manages the financial and capital resources of the department/service groupings by monitoring operating revenue and expenses, establishing and maintaining cost control programs. Has overall accountability for staffing levels, structure and skill mix and operating expenses. Implements new or revises current programs and/or services set out in the business plan. 
• Develops, maintains, administers and communicates departmental policies, procedures and practices to all employees.
• Implements and maintains an ongoing nursing education program for licensed nursing staff.
• Maintains knowledge of trends and developments in the field by reading appropriate articles, journals, and related material, and by attending seminars, conferences and so forth.
• Provides professional nursing care to patients in response to workload demands and/or staffing shortages.
• Chairs and attends meetings as assigned
• Develops a process to ensure the clinical competence of all nursing staff.
• Develops and implements all policies in accordance with JCAHO, state, federal and local requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

• Master's degree in Nursing and two (2) years of managerial experience; or Master’s degrees in a related health care or medical service, behavioral or rehabilitative science field and three (3) years of managerial experience. The managerial work experience must come from performing those duties typically associated with an Assistant or Associate Director of Nursing, or Director of Nursing.  Experience must be in a mental health and medical surgical setting with some sub-acute and dialysis experience preferred.
• State license in the State of South Carolina, including at least two years of post-licensure clinical nursing experience working exclusively with individuals diagnosed with mental illness or multiple disabilities.
• Work requires the analytical skills necessary in order to solve technical, clinical, administrative, or managerial problems that require a professional level of knowledge in a specific discipline/design relatively complex plans, systems, and programs.
• Work requires the communication skills necessary to interpret hospital policies in situations requiring persuasion prepare and present presentations to hospital senior management, manage the performance of employees within a large or diverse department, or other duties requiring a comparable level of communication skills.
• Work is assigned in the form of broad goals or areas of responsibility and requires incumbents to make many decisions with respect to policies as well as financial and operating plans. Independent decisions require defining the possible choices from board information where the alternatives and implications may be unclear.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.