JOB SUMMARYThe Director of Nursing provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for psychiatric nursing services at Texas Behavioral Health Center. This position is responsible for advancing safe, high-quality, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate care for adult and pediatric psychiatric patients. The Director oversees nursing operations, clinical quality, patient safety, workforce development, regulatory readiness, fiscal stewardship, and performance improvement across assigned patient care areas.
BENEFITSUT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:
- PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
- 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
- Paid Time Off, available day one
- Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
- Paid Parental Leave Benefit
- Wellness programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
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EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONRequired- Education
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
- Experience
5 years of Nursing management/supervisory experience, with additional years of clinical nursing experience.
- Licenses and Certifications
(RN) REGISTERED NURSE
(CPI) CRISIS PREVENTION INSTITUT CER required within 4 weeks of hire
Preferred- Education
Graduate degree in Nursing or a related field
JOB DUTIES- Provides operational, clinical, and strategic leadership for inpatient psychiatric nursing services and assigned clinical departments.
- Oversees the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centered psychiatric nursing care across assigned adult and pediatric patient care units and services.
- Collaborates with the Chief Nursing Officer, medical staff, senior leadership, interdisciplinary teams, and operational leaders to support hospital goals, strategic priorities, and clinical objectives.
- Ensures compliance with CMS Conditions of Participation, Joint Commission standards, Texas Administrative Code requirements, patient rights standards, and organizational policies and procedures.
- Leads nursing quality, patient safety, performance improvement, patient experience, and regulatory readiness initiatives.
- Directs nursing operations across the continuum of care, including patient flow, staffing, resource utilization, admission support, transfer coordination, and discharge planning processes.
- Develops, implements, and monitors operational, clinical, quality, workforce, and financial metrics; analyzes trends and leads corrective action plans to improve performance.
- Promotes a culture of safety, accountability, recovery-oriented care, trauma-informed practice, therapeutic engagement, and continuous performance improvement.
- Provides leadership for restraint and seclusion reduction, violence prevention, suicide prevention, ligature risk mitigation, elopement prevention, and behavioral emergency response practices.
- Oversees recruitment, retention, competency management, succession planning, professional development, and performance coaching for nursing leaders and staff.
- Establishes and monitors staffing plans, productivity standards, acuity-based staffing strategies, scheduling practices, and workforce utilization to support safe patient care and operational efficiency.
- Develops and manages departmental operating and capital budgets and ensures effective stewardship of staffing, supplies, equipment, and other resources.
- Supports implementation, standardization, and optimization of clinical documentation systems, nursing workflows, psychiatric nursing standards, and evidence-based practices.
- Works cooperatively with directors, managers, physicians, advanced practice providers, therapists, educators, and support service leaders to ensure efficient hospital and departmental operations.
- Maintains confidentiality and exercises sound judgment and discretion in all patient care, personnel, financial, and organizational matters.
- Develops annual departmental goals aligned with hospital strategic priorities and ensures execution of action plans to achieve desired outcomes.
- The Director of Nursing monitors, reports, and leads improvement work related to nursing-sensitive and behavioral health quality indicators.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Salary InformationSalary is commensurate with education, skills, and relevant experience.
