Outpatient Behavioral Health RN Program Manager
 Denver Health | |
tuition reimbursement, retirement plan
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 United States, Colorado, Denver | |
| 777 Bannock Street (Show on map) | |
 May 24, 2025 | |
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We are recruiting for a motivated Outpatient Behavioral Health RN Program Manager to join our team!
We are here for life's journey. Department Substance Use Disorder Oper The following positions within Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry, Inpatient Adult Psychiatry, Psychiatric Emergency Services, CARES, and Outpatient Behavioral Health Services are offering the opportunity to enroll in a program offering a cash incentive to recognize your work treating patients with substance use disorders. This program is sponsored through the ACCESS (Advancing Careers, Competencies, and Equity in Substance Treatment Services) grant. Employees must be >0.6 FTE to be eligible. 50% of the bonus will be received 90 days after signing the program contract. Program is available until grant funds are exhausted.* Registered Nurses (RNs) may earn up to $7,500 * Behavioral Health Technicians (BHTs) may earn up to $3,500 * Care Navigators may earn up to $3,507 Summary The Outpatient Behavioral Health Services (OBHS) RN Program Manager plays a critical role in supporting the nursing team that advocates for individuals undergoing treatment for opioid use disorders. Working closely with OBHS leadership and healthcare providers, the RN Program Manager collaborates in performing managerial and leadership functions over progressional nursing teams to ensure the safety and well-being of patients and the nursing workforce. This role requires a deep understanding of opioid addiction, regulatory compliance, pharmacology, crisis intervention, behavioral health, recruitment and retention, and nursing principles. The RN Program Manager works within a free-standing facility that delivers care to a patient population diagnosed with severe opiate use and the co-occurring factors of social impairment, high risk behavior, and both medical and psychological concerns. OBHS employs a high level of security, which impacts daily working conditions, including both personal and institutional safety and clinical operations. Environmental awareness, independent, critical thinking, and decisive, decision-making skills are required in the OBHS ambulatory care setting. The RN Program Manager is trained in trauma and therapeutic response, verbal de-escalation, addictions medicine, and Motivational Interviewing to provide whole person care. Essential Functions * Staff Management, education, onboarding 25% * Mentoring and Recruitment 15% * Records Management 10% * Problem Solving Patient and Family needs 10% * Patient Safety and Quality Care 10% * Policy Development and revision 10% * Scheduling 5% * Support and implementation of organizational initiatives and strategic planning 5% * Promote employee engagement 5% * Staff Unit 5% Education
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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities * Adherence to Standards of Professional Nursing Practice/ Process / Performance [ANA Standards addendum- signed] and accrediting body standards. * Strong understanding and display of the principals of customer service as it applies to patients, staff and the community * Ability to assist in identifying ways to promote quality patient-centric care and maintain Denver Health's high level of patient satisfaction. [Nursing Vision Statement] * Ability to work effectively in a team matrix environment. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels and in a cross functional environment. * Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary staff, charge nurses, clinical nurse educator(s), navigators, pharmacists, Social workers, Nursing Managers, providers, executive leadership to provide care to patients with respect to their uniqueness using informed judgment, competence, individual qualifications, and collaboration with the health care team. * Ability to demonstrate an understanding of assessment findings as they relate to the disease process and continuum of care. * Supports compliance with national patient safety goals, accrediting agency standards, and quality initiatives. * Evaluates practice in relation to professional standards, statues, regulations, hospital and departmental policies, standards of care, and regulatory * Promotes quality care by redefining priorities for care based on evaluation of healthcare consumer/family response, changing condition, and community needs. * Ability to demonstrate an understanding of assessment findings as they relate to the disease process and continuum of care. * Proficient in EHR documentation * Proficient in Office Suite * Knowledge of JCAHO and other federal, state and local regulatory requirements impacting ambulatory care clinics. * Applies knowledge and support to a variety of roles supervised including onboarding and orientation, appropriate scope of practice, continuing education and development plans. * Knowledge and adherence to standards of care for ambulatory care nursing and provision of clinical care across the continuum of age and culture. * Supports and implements organizational initiatives of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging on the unit with direct reports and in all interactions. Shift Days (United States of America)Work Type RegularSalary $88,000.00 - $136,400.00 / yrBenefits
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All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made. Applicants will be considered until the position is filled. | |