SENIOR REGISTERED NURSE SUPV - 60009855

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

Northeast Florida State Hospital (NEFSH) is a 613-bed, licensed mental health treatment facility that provides person-centered services to adults suffering from severe and persistent mental illness. The hospital, located in Macclenny, was established in 1959 and is the largest state operated civil treatment facility. 

NORTHEAST FLORIDA STATE HOSPITAL IS A TOBACCO FREE FACILITY.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION.

AFTER-HOURS POSITION AVAILABLE: 11PM - 7AM

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as a Senior Registered Nurse Supervisor at the Northeast Florida State Hospital. This position will collaborate with each section within the state facilities and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented. 

This position requires lifting, pulling, squatting. Duties of this position require the incumbent to be knowledgeable of and utilize the principles of Total Quality Management. 

The incumbent of this position must be a professionally qualified Registered Nurse with appropriate experience, education, licensure, teaching, and ability to make good judgment decisions in nursing practice and administrative duties.  The incumbent in this position must be employed full-time.  This position has responsibilities as a manager, communicator and participator in the treatment team process, evaluator of nursing care, and ultimately overall supervision of all nursing care on the unit to assure that residents receive the optimum achievable nursing care with the resources made available.  This position provides supervision on a 24-hour basis over all nursing/direct care personnel within the unit with direct supervision of the Registered Nurse Supervisor positions and night shift nursing staff.  Nursing will provide guidance in the care and treatment of residents.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• SUPERVISION, DISCIPLINE, & EVALUATION: 
  • Assume ultimate responsibility for all nursing care delivered in unit and supervise same. 
  • Serves as immediate supervisor to the Registered Nurse Supervisors and night shift personnel. 
  • Writes performance expectation/standards for all Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and direct care staff in assigned unit, using personal observation and monitoring data. 
  • Counsel, confer with, discipline or ensure that appropriate disciplinary measures are taken to assure the delivery of quality nursing care, the respect of all residents' worth as individuals and compliance with DCF Employee Handbook, by all nursing/direct care employees. 
  • Supervise and participate in completing nursing progress notes, nursing assessments, and nursing care plans in accordance with POR Standards. 
  • Monitor the delivery of nursing care in terms of established professional standards through visits and inspections, staff and patient contacts and communications, records and residents' chart.  Monitor unit compliance with Federal, State and Children and Families guidelines as applicable to nursing. 
  • Assist in developing corrective action plan for any program deficiencies. 
  • Monitor the quality and implementation of nursing care plans in the unit. 
  • Perform quarterly/annual audits on staff supervised with performance improvement plans as needed. 
  • Create, develop, and revise monitoring tools as needed for auditing the documentation of the staff supervised. 
  • Provide Infection Control Committee with monthly report which contain inclusive information and is in a professional format. 
  • Monitors 1-on-1 medication administration at least yearly on all nurses directly supervised with delegation to Registered Nurse Supervisors the medication monitoring for staff supervised and maintain documentation in unit.
  • Serve as a consultant to the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurses and direct care in the unit on matters related directly to the delivery of nursing care and of administrative matters indirectly affecting the delivery of nursing care. 
  • Make ward rounds to assess the delivery of nursing care and make recommendations to the nursing staff based on this assessment. 
  • Provide professional assistance to the nursing personnel and direct care staff regarding the delivery of nursing services. 
  • Assist in implementing the Disaster Plan or emergency evacuation. 
  • Maintains 90% or above compliance with nursing and direct care standard requirements.
• COMMUNICATIONS: 
  • Schedule and chair Registered Nurse meetings on a monthly, or as needed basis (a minimum of 6 per year). 
  • Provide input to supervisor in matters relating to or affecting the profession of nursing practice in the unit. 
  • Represent the practice of professional nursing by serving on committees as designated by supervisor. 
  • Establish and maintain a good working relationship with other services within the unit to coordinate an effective nursing delivery. 
  • Serve as treatment team coordinator as needed. 
  • Participate in discharge planning and resident education to prepare for living in the community when appropriate.
  • Attend in-service seminars or workshops for professional development as required by departmental and hospital policy and licensure responsibilities.
• PROGRAMMING PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT: 
  • Responsible for developing, reviewing, and revising unit nursing and direct care policies and procedures necessary to provide quality nursing services with continuity of care 24 hours daily, seven days a week. 
  • Responsible for the development of unit philosophy and nursing objectives, compliance with professional nursing standards, hospital goals, hospital nursing policies, procedures and other integrated hospital services. 
  • Posts coverage schedules in area highly visible to staff per policy/procedure/contracts.  
  • Assumes responsibility for assuring that required equipment necessary for performing nursing procedures and activities is available, functioning efficiently and in good repair. 
  • Participate in, or designate a registered nurse representative to participate in, quality assurance activities, including infection control. 
  • Determine all independent nursing programming in unit to create and maintain the role of psychiatric nursing as defined by the American Nurses' Association for Psychiatric Nursing Practices. 
  • Plan programs, along with orientation books/pamphlets to orient newly hired nurses to unit responsibilities and requirements. 
  • Keeps required nursing files in office or unit as designated by supervisor for review of nursing services by inside or outside auditors. 
• ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES: 
  • Assist with the preparation and follow-up of agency surveys and actively participates in the survey process when appropriate. 
  • Maintain a current file of all licensed nursing personnel in the unit, including a copy of current license. 
  • Interview nursing applicants and make recommendations to supervisor as to employment potential.   
  • Maintain professional proficiency in nursing skills to be competent in responding to both medical, psychiatric and HCS interventions. 
  • Perform group or individual education and/or coaching as needed.
• SAFETY: 
  • Responsible for following all departmental facility safety guidelines and observing and complying with all policies relating to the security of residents.
• MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION/MONITORING: 
  • Responsible for 1-to-1 monitoring of nurses directly supervised on medication/ treatments at least yearly with documentation or more often as needed with corrective action plans for medication variances as required. 
  • Performs administration of medication/treatments when needed to provide minimum coverage in accordance with Florida Statutes 395, 464 Nurse Practice Act and 64B9 Florida Board of Nursing Rules and Operating Policy/Procedures/Guidelines of the facility. 
  • Complete medication administration/treatments within timeframes specified with all forms required.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:

• Knowledge of nursing principles, practices and techniques.
• Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.
• Ability to work with patients having a variety of physical problems.
• Ability to supervise people.
• Ability to determine work priorities, assign work and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in accordance with Florida Statute 464 and three years of Registered Nursing experience or Master's of Science degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university.

Candidate Profile (application) must be completed in its entirety.

• Include supervisor names and phone numbers for all periods of employment.
• Account for and explain any gaps in employment so that the hiring process is not delayed.
• Experience, education, training, knowledge, skills and/or abilities as well as responses to pre-qualifying questions must be verifiable to meet the minimum qualifications. 
• It is unacceptable to use the statement “See Resume” in place of responding to qualifying questions and entering work history.
• If you experience problems applying online, please call the People First Service Center at (877) 562-7287.

Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits.

For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.

DCF EMPLOYMENT DISCLOSURES

US CITIZEN REQUIREMENT Only US citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers will be hired.

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM REGISTRATION All selected male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion into an authorized position unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS).  Verification of Selective Service registration will be conducted prior to hire.  For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov.

RETIREE NOTICE If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you required to repay all benefits received depending upon the date of your retirement.

BACKGROUND SCREENING It is the policy of the Florida Department of Children and Families that any applicant being considered for employment must successfully complete a State and National criminal history check as a condition of employment before beginning employment, and, if applicable, also be screened in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, F.S., and Chapter 408, F.S.  No applicant may begin employment until the background screening results are received, reviewed for any disqualifying offenses, and approved by the Agency.  Background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for State and Federal criminal records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and may include local criminal history checks through local law enforcement agencies.

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