Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.
The BHU Director provides clinical and administrative direction and leadership necessary for staff to attain our mission, vision, and values. They are a key/vital member of our health care team, coordinating, leading and implementing patient outcome improving patient care delivery. They are the foundation upon which our values are built and solidified in assuring our patients receive personalized, high quality care.
Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s prepared Registered Nurse licensed by the New Mexico Board of Nursing
- Five (5) years’ of Behavioral Health Leadership experience
- Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills
- Demonstration effective interpersonal skills
- Self-motivation and accountability
- Team oriented
Preferred Qualifications:
- Board certification in nursing leadership (i.e., CNML, CENP, or NE-BC)
- Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
- Previous CNS Behavioral Health experience
Duties and Responsibilities:
Clinical Leadership:
- Leads quality and outcome improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes
- Ensures that patients and families are provided discharge education on disease prevention and management
- Provides leadership in nursing practice and serves as a role model for other registered nurses
- Develops policies and procedures to enhance clinical practices and that align with regulatory expectations
Financial and Strategic Management:
- Understands health care economics and health care public policy.
- Demonstrates strong financial aptitude.
- Exhibits strong business planning and project management abilities.
- Identifies opportunities and provides direction for program development in the in-patient and clinic settings.
Human Resource Management and Leadership:
- Knowledgeable in various recruitment and interviewing techniques.
- Committed to all aspects of employee development including scope of practice.
Quality and Performance Improvement:
- Consistently displays a commitment to improving quality performance.
- Actively participates in departmental and organizational quality initiatives.
- Assures the safety of patients and staff is maintained.
Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors:
- Exhibits effective communication and negotiation skills.
- Can lead a team and crosses boundaries to facilitate collaboration.
- Interface with, and cultivate relations with, professional and community partners.
- Understands one’s values, beliefs, and attitudes and how they affect interactions with others.
Shared Decision-Making:
- Understands the structure and process of shared governance.
- Promotes and implements shared decision-making structures and processes.
Personal and Professional Accountability:
- Actively participants in personal and professional growth and development.
- Practices and supports nursing standards and scopes of practice.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Utilizes information technology systems to support business decisions and has a strong understanding of the effect of information technology on patient care.
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly with assistance.
- Must be able to walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist frequently.
- Must be able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds frequently.
- Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids and meets OSHA training requirements.
Special Demands:
- Sets limits when dealing with angry, hostile, or sometimes verbally or physically abusive patients and families in an attempt to ensure a safe, respectful environment that will support the delivery of care.
- Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients