Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Program Director

Company: Dominion Hospital
Location: Falls Church
Posted on: May 23, 2025

Job Description:

DescriptionThis position is incentive eligible.**WE ARE OFFERING SIGN ON BONUSES and RELOCATION ASSISTANCE**Apply today and a member of our team will reach out within 24 hours!!IntroductionWe are seeking a Psychiatric Mental Health Program Director with Dominion Hospital supporting our adult and specialty programs to promote growth and unlock possibilities. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life. Share your leadership skills and come make a difference with us!BenefitsDominion Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.Learn More About Employee BenefitsNote: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.We are seeking a Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Program Director for our team to be an innovator. HCA Healthcare partners with Harvard Pilgrim Institute and the CDC to use our data from more than 26 million patient encounters each year to impact the industry. Come build your career with us!Job Summary And Qualifications
  • Maintains accountability for clinical, operational, and nursing management oversight for our Adult, Trauma, and Disordered Eating Programs.
  • Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating all phases of nursing care provided on the program.
  • Determines staffing requirements and material resources necessary to provide care to the patients on the program.
  • Provides supervision of, assesses and evaluates the competence and performance of the nursing personnel.
  • Participates in the recruitment and community education process Demonstrates expertise in mental health promotion and maintenance of high quality, comprehensive patient care.
  • Assumes responsibility for the counseling and evaluation of nursing staff in an objective, consistent and timely manner.
  • Anticipates and resolves staff conflict at the program level.
  • Provides direct supervision, guidance and support to nursing staff utilizing effective communication skills to address issues and seek feedback from staff.
  • Schedules and maintains nursing staff assignments for 24-hour coverage on a regular basis.
  • Maintains appropriate staffing patterns with the guidelines for assigned program to ensure optimum patient care and understanding FTE requirements for program and hospital.
  • Works effectively with the CNO and Medical Director to monitor and evaluate program standards and guidelines.
  • Functions as liaison between physicians and nursing staff to ensure optimum patient care.
  • Demonstrates ability to develop and maintain open working relationships with all hospital employees
  • Promotes integration of behavioral health throughout hospital by participating in hospital wide initiatives
  • Assists with referral development and community education activities
  • Monitors and ensures compliance with policies and procedures.
  • Responsible for maintaining and upgrading knowledge in psychiatric nursing by engaging activities that enhances current knowledge.
  • Ensures compliance with local, state and federal regulations and standards, and assists in preparation for all regulatory surveys, promoting a culture of constant readiness.
  • Hiring, rounding, evaluations, expectations, terminations
  • Management of corporate Behavioral Health Expectations
  • Keep professionally current, by attending continuing education programs, seminars, workshops, and/or independent research reading.What qualifications you will need:
    • Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
    • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
    • Registered Nurse
    • Bachelors Degree required - Masters preferred
    • 3 years of leadership experience
    • Behavioral Health experience - requiredDominion Hospital has provided quality healthcare services for close to 50 years! Our 116-bed hospital is one of the region's leading mental healthcare facilities in Northern Virginia. Our convenient location in suburban Falls Church, VA, offers a full range of treatment options with a distinctive focus on crisis intervention and stabilization through our inpatient, partial hospitalization programs (PHP), and intensive outpatient (IOP). Our inpatient programs are comprised of five distinct units. These units include Child, Adolescent, Adult, Eating Disorders, and Complex Trauma and we maintain complementary PHPs and IOPs to match. We maintain an excellent outpatient referral network. Our patients receive the best quality care through specialized services in safe, healthy, confidential, and trauma-informed environments.At Dominion Hospital, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people, and our community. We are committed to each other. When we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times.-- In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses."There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.HCA Healthcare Co-FounderJoin our family of over 180 hospitals and about 2,000 sites of care to drive excellence and raise the bar for our over 35 million annual patient encounters.We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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