Job Summary:

Responsible for providing operational oversight, clinical support and administrative decision making for the hospital during the evening hours.

Ensures the delivery of safe, effective, patient care while maintaining regulatory compliance, staffing adequacy, and coordinated communication across all units and departments.

Key responsibilities

• Provide leadership coverage for the entire hospital during evening hours, ensuring smooth and safe operations across all inpatient units, and the admission department.
• Serve as the onsite administrative authority, making timely decisions regarding clinical care, safety issues, operational workflow, and resource allocation.
• Conduct regular hospital wide rounds to assess unit needs, staffing, patient acuity, environmental risk, and overall safety.
• Maintain clear, consistent communication with leadership team, nursing directors, supervisors, and on call administrators.
• Monitor adherence to all patient safety protocols, including observation levels check procedures, fall risk interventions, suicide risk precautions and contraband reduction efforts.
• Responded to all psychiatric and medical emergencies and assist in managing urgent situations.
• Ensure timely incident documentation and initiate preliminary investigations for safety events, behavioral events, near misses, patients’ complaints, and environmental hazards.
• Adjust staffing in real time based on the census and acuity needs.
• Support staff with complex clinical decisions such as patient assaults, patient placements, initiation of 1:1/ acuity and block beds.
• Assess block beds, room availability, and unit suitability based on behavior, safety needs and acuity levels.
• Oversee the flow of admissions, from IAC to the units throughout the evening shift.
• Attend weekly HR meetings and collaborate closely with human resources department on matters related to employee performance and the disciplinary processes.
• Participate in hiring, including interviewing candidates, supporting orientation for new evening staff.
• Attend weekly nurse director meetings to ensure alignment with hospital policies, clinical standards, and operational expectations.
• Participate in assigned projects, hospital initiatives and performance improvement activities, ensuring timely completion and effective implementation.
• Serve as an active member of hospital committees as designated, for example, hospital quality council, etc.
• Provide real time coaching, feedback, mentoring, and professional support to staff.
• Engage in performance management activities such as staff counseling, documentation of performance concerns, complete performance evaluations and provide input into evaluations for unit-based staff as appropriate.

Job Qualifications and Specifications

• Education: RN, Bachelor’s degree, Master’s Degree in Health Care Field preferred
• Training and Experience: Current RI license as RN
• Four years’ experience in psychiatric nursing, at least two years management experience-
• Demonstrated leadership ability.

Schedule: 24/48 Every Other Weekend / 3p-11:30p

Care New England Health System (CNE) and its member institutions, Butler Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, Kent Hospital, VNA of Care New England, Integra, The Providence Center, and Care New England Medical Group, and our Wellness Center, are trusted organizations fueling the latest advances in medical research, attracting top specialty-trained doctors, and honing renowned services and innovative programs to engage in the important discussions people need to have about their health.

EEOC Statement: Care New England is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

Ethics Statement: Employee conducts himself/herself consistent with the ethical standards of the organization including, but not limited to hospital policy, mission, vision, and values.

Americans with Disability Act Statement: External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled must be able to perform the essential job-specific functions either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.