Nurse Manager (Salem, Osci/Sci)

Initial Posting Date:

06/12/2024

Application Deadline:

06/24/2024

Agency:

Department of Corrections

Salary Range:

$8,372 - $12,340

Position Type:

Employee

Position Title:

Nurse Manager (Salem, OSCI/SCI)

Job Description:

Nurse Manager (Salem, OSCI/SCI)

Oregon State Correctional Institution / Santiam Correctional Institution

• Salem, Oregon

Oregon Department of Corrections

About the Job

• Your Role

You will supervise Institution Registered Nurses, as well as Registered Nurses who have been designated as Lead Workers, Health Services Technicians, and Pharmacy Technicians 2.

Your duties will include recruitment, hiring, training, scheduling, assigning, and managing employee performance. You will establish and manage systems to deliver medical, dental, hospice, psychiatric treatment, and medications services on a 24-hour, 7-day per week basis for adults in custody (AICs) housed in a variety of units including, but not limited to, general population, infirmary, minimum housing, disciplinary segregation unit, mental health unit, and administrative segregation unit. You will ensure the standard of health care is consistent with that available in the community and assists the facility to meet standards for environment/occupational health and safety. You will serve as the on-site health authority. You will also participate on the statewide Health Services Management team which is a forum used to problem solve operational issues, develop short- and long-range operational goals, and develop policies.

Managing

Manages human resources to deliver all levels and types of nursing care to a population of the adults in custody. Recruits, interviews, selects, and orients nursing personnel to perform health care delivery. Verifies licenses, certificates, and secures training for personnel. Assigns work to nursing personnel consistent with credentials and clinical privileges. Supervises employees and agency personnel so work performed is consistent with assignment and licensure requirements. Uses progressive discipline to correct deficient employee performance. The total nursing staff in each facility ranges from 05-37 positions servicing 1,400-3,000 adults in custody.

Ensures medical records are properly maintained on all adults in custody.

Establishes and maintains a system for administration of medication according to physicians' orders, which is timely and conforms to applicable law, administrative rule, and security requirements.

Responds to written and verbal complaints, grievances, or other request for information including investigations.

Represents the Department of Corrections in court as necessary. Must be able to perform the duties as listed on the institutional Registered Nurse position description in case of emergencies, staff shortages, or as needed.

Planning

Writes and implements health services procedures consistent with the Health Services policy, assists in the preparation of nursing protocols at the state-wide level, and participates in policymaking regarding Health Services.

Provide and arrange for in-service training of nursing staff. Schedule employees for all required training and assists in facilitating continuing professional education requirements. May function as a trainer for annual-in-service training.

Establishes a plan for health care programs to evaluate and monitor the quality of health care provided. Evaluates and documents the quality of health service delivery. Prepares written and statistical reports which convey or quantify the status, volume, and quality of services provided by the Health Services Program.

Assists the Medical Services Manager in examining, developing, and proposing service alternatives to expand the level of service provided or improve the quality of service, including cost and resource sharing service.

Budgetary

Participates in and assists the Medical Services Manager in examining in managing the fiscal resources; and is primarily responsible for overseeing the nursing schedules to minimize budgetary overtime of the Health Services Program.

Leadership Skills and Attributes

Collaboration

• The ability to intentionally work together with peers, staff, and stakeholders towards shared goals. Collaborative leaders are non-hierarchical and share responsibility, authority, and accountability equitably with others.

Emotional Intelligence- The ability to consciously recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions, and to empathetically and judiciously recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.

Ethics and Values

• The ability to behave with integrity, honesty, and transparency in accordance with statute, administrative rule, ODOC Code of Conduct, ODOC Code of Ethics, and Criminal Justice Code of Ethics, and the department's stated values in all actions.

Influence- The ability to shape opinions, change hearts and minds, and motivate others to carry out the goals of the organization by relating their personal motivations to the desired future state.

Inspiring a United Vision

• The ability to imagine the future with creativity, wisdom, and ingenuity. Leaders illuminate the path toward continuous transformation, sparking shared commitment, and action in others to reach a common goal.

Managing the External Environment

• The ability to look outside the department and understand the totality of the environment within which leaders operate, engage proactively with all stakeholders, and forecast the impact of actions taken inside and outside the department to promote public trust and understanding, and ensure conditions are in place to meet the mission.

Planning and Performance Measurement

• The ability to develop comprehensive plans, provide direction, prioritize resources, establish measures of success, inspire action, and ensure continuous improvement in service of the organizational mission, shared vision, and goals.

Resilience

• The ability to overcome adversary, opposition, and failure and maintain steady, thoughtful progress towards a goal (mental toughness, grit, tenacity).

Strategic Thinking- The ability to forecast a broad range of alternatives, anticipate likely outcomes of individual or group actions, and consider all potential risk and impacts to stakeholders and systems. Strategic thinkers recognize the relationships, complexities, and implications of a situation; anticipating possibilities and plan for the future.

Team Building- The ability to bring people of diverse thought, experience, and skill sets together as a team, identify purpose and goals, and manage stages of development to ensure collaboration and overall performance is successful.

This position is management services and may be eligible for Police & Fire (P&F) benefits through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), as defined by statute.

Minimum Qualifications

Three (3) years of nursing experience including some supervisory and/or teaching experience which shows knowledge of a) nursing techniques and therapeutic intervention used in care and treatment of patients (specific to the employing facility); b) supervisory techniques and work management of subordinate personnel; and c) administrative and educational principles and practices involved in nursing administration.

At the time of appointment, must possess a valid Oregon Registered Professional Nurse's license.

Requested Skills

• Providing professional nursing care to patients

• Supervision (e.g., hire, train, assign and review work, motivate, prepare performance evaluations and handle disciplinary actions)

• Adapting nursing care to the emotional needs and behavior of patients

• Preparing written reports, records of nursing care given and patient progress notes

• Communicating orally with a variety of people answering questions and explaining information and decisions

• Coordinating patient health care services with other departments

• Interpreting and applying rules, statutes, procedures, guidelines, and policies

• Managing and working with confidential information including medical information

General Knowledge

• Professional nursing process, methods, and procedures

• Health teaching and therapeutic intervention techniques

• American Nursing Association standards of psychiatric nursing

• Patient rights

• Human behavior and biophysical, developmental, mental, and emotional health

• Personnel administration as it relates to the selection, motivation, and disciplining of employees

• Principles of work organization and simplification

• Administrative and educational principles and practices involved in nursing administration

In the Work Experience section of your application make sure to include the dates and duties off all relevant positions and details to support how you meet these attributes. If you do not include education or work experience meeting the minimum qualifications, you will not be considered for the position. Only the candidates whose experience most closely matches the qualifications and requested skills of this position will be invited to interview.

Cover Letter

Please submit a cover letter no longer than 3 pages clearly addressing your qualifications and experience in a Supervisory and/or Leadership role.

Failure to upload a cover letter or fully address the prompt may result in the dismissal of your application.

Working Conditions

All staff are expected to model pro-social behaviors; reinforce positive behaviors; and effectively communicate observed behaviors to responsible program staff, administrators, and supervisors in support of Oregon Accountability Model. This position works within the secure perimeter of an adult correctional institution and encounters adults in custody routinely. The nurse manager has an inherent responsibility for the supervision of adults in custody in the health care areas. Must have the ability to work any shift of the day; requires mandatory double shifts occasionally; the ability to take call during off hours; requires walking or standing for long periods; requires climbing and descending stairs (with or without medical equipment); requires occasional exertion resulting from patient care; possible exposure to chemicals, radiation, communicable diseases or other hazards inherent in a health care and correctional setting; may require response to medical emergencies that requires lifting/carrying 30 plus pounds; requires kneeling and stooping; may require occasional instate travel.

About the Department

The Oregon Department of Corrections is responsible for over 12,000 adults in custody in 12 state prisons throughout Oregon. It advises and evaluates counties regarding administration of probation and parole programs supervising more than 24,000 offenders in Oregon communities. The mission is to promote public safety by holding offenders accountable for their actions and reducing the risk of future criminal behavior.

The Oregon Department of Corrections serves a diverse and changing population of people who are incarcerated and on supervision. We commit to creating an organization both reflecting the diversity of the population we serve and ensuring all employees thrive in a culture of safety, trust, and belonging. We strive to be an anti-racist corrections system. Welcoming, inclusive, and respectful of all people. Free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

The Department offers a variety of programs and opportunity to create a safe and healthy environment to for our staff, volunteers, and adults in custody. Joining the Oregon Department of Corrections is joining a team working for the benefit of our communities through innovative and proven correctional practices.

Benefits

The salary range listed above is for non-PERS qualifying applicants. PERS qualifying applicants may be eligible for an adjusted range to reflect an additional 6.95%.

The State of Oregon provides a generous benefit package, which includes:

• Family health, vision, and dental insurance

• Vacation, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays

• 21 days paid military leave for national guard and reserve components

• Optional short and long-term disability

• Term life insurance

• Fully paid retirement program

• Oregon Saving Growth Plan

• Flexible spending accounts for health and childcare

• And more

About the Process

• What to Expect

• After the application deadline, a recruiter will review submissions for education and experience to identify candidates who best fit the minimum qualifications and requested skills.

• Top candidates will be referred to the hiring manager.

• The hiring manager will review your application and schedule interviews.

• Interview will be held with a panel of stakeholders who have completed panel assessment training. Scores will be determined based on predetermined questions and scoring guides. Preferences points will be applied in compliance with relevant laws and bargaining agreements. There may be multiple rounds of interviews.

• Final candidates will have a background check, PREA check, and reference checks.

• A Classification and Compensation analyst will review the Workday Application of the successful candidate to determine starting wages. Learn more about Equal Pay.

• A job offer will be extended through Workday to the successful candidate. Congratulations, and welcome to the team!

Requirements for Employment

The successful candidate for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, there may be some felony convictions that could disqualify you for this position. However, having a felony record does not exclusively restrict you from being considered as an applicant. CJIS clearance is done at the conditional job offer. If you have questions about whether or not your criminal record could disqualify for you, please contact the recruiter for more information.

Additional Information

• Please monitor your Workday and email accounts. You may be contacted through Workday or have additional tasks to complete.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDI&B) is embedded in the Department of Corrections core values. The department strives to be a model employer committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Ensuring legal compliance, efficiency, and exceeding expectations to deliver the best public services.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran or protected veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. Additional information can be found from The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Know Your Rights.

The Oregon Department of Corrections is responsible for complying with the Federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA 42 U.S.C. 1997). PREA prohibits the Oregon Department of Corrections from hiring, promoting, or contracting with anyone, (that will have direct contact with residents), who has engaged in, been convicted of, or been civilly or administratively adjudicated for engaging in sexual abuse in confinement settings. Learn more about PREA.

Under Oregon Law, qualifying veterans may apply for veterans' preference. Review our veterans' preference page for details about eligibility. Please note - if you are a veteran, you will receive a task in Workday to upload your documents immediately after you submit your initial application.

Questions

If you have questions about the position, selection process, or need accommodations to participate in the recruitment process please contact the recruiter and reference the requisition number.

Recruiter: Kelli Ketchum, Kelli.L.Ketchum@doc.oregon.gov

Reference Number: Req-158981

• Workday will timeout after 15 minutes of inactivity. You may lose progress on your application.

• Workday performs weekly maintenance Friday evenings, and the system may be down for several hours.

• ODOC does not offer visa sponsorship. Within three days of hire, applicants will be required to complete an I-9 and confirm authorization to work in the United States.

• This applicant list may be used to fill future vacancies. Application information may be used throughout the entire selection process. This process is subject to change without notice.

• This announcement is intended as a general descriptive recruitment guide and is subject to change. It does not constitute either an expressed or implied contract. The pay and benefits on all announcements may change without notice.