Director of Nursing

Recruiting Director of Nursing/Chief Nursing Officer

Greater Binghamton Health Center (GBHC), a Joint Commission accredited Office of Mental Health (OMH) facility is recruiting a Director Nursing 3 (Psychiatric) to serve as the Chief Nursing Officer and a member of GBHC’s executive leadership team.

As the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), you will provide leadership and strategic oversight for all inpatient, outpatient, community, and residential nursing and direct care services at GBHC. The CNO is a GBHC policymaker that sets the vision for nursing care delivery and professional practice models that align with GBHC and OMH mission and values to ensure high quality, patient-centered care. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serving as a member of the GBHC Cabinet and Executive leadership team and contributing to organizational planning, policy development, and decision-making processes


• Implementing compliance and regulatory process structures to meet Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals and Standards and OMH regulatory requirements


• Analyzing and reporting on regulatory compliance and leading survey readiness initiatives


• Overseeing the integration of mental health, primary care, and substance abuse treatment to support individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery


• Addressing critical change management factors essential to support a culture of excellence in patient care


• Overseeing safety initiatives and working with GBHC committees including infection control and safe patient handling


• Mentoring and professional development of nursing staff, managers, and educators; establishing and implementing a progressive vision for the training, and continuing education for nursing and direct care staff


• Overseeing recruitment, retention, supervision, and evaluation of nursing and direct care staff


• Monitoring staffing, assignments, and scheduling to ensure quality care

About GBHC

GBHC, located in Binghamton, New York, is a community-based mental health facility providing inpatient and outpatient services to adults and children and youth who live in Upstate New York’s Southern Tier region.

GBHC delivers comprehensive, integrated services to hospitalized individuals on four (4) distinct adult units and one (1) unit for children and youth. GBHC’s outpatient services include Transitional Living Residences, Family Care Program with certified homes in the community, clinic services, Mobile Integration Team (MIT), Adolescent Crisis Residence, Adolescent Day Treatment, and OnTrack NY program.

GBHC is committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities along with activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment for underserved populations and enable individuals with psychiatric illnesses to lead successful lives in the community.

About OMH

OMH operates the largest state mental health system in the country, with 23 hospitals, 90 clinics, two world-class research institutes, a secure residential center, and a network of community services. OMH hospitals are all Joint Commission-accredited and recognized as among the best mental health hospital systems in the United States. OMH believes everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve mental wellness. This means implementing services and policies to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for historically marginalized, underserved, and unserved populations.

If you would like to join GBHC and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer:

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick, and personal leave as well as thirteen (13) paid holidays


• Option to choose a NYS health insurance plan that meets your needs.


• No Cost dental and vision coverage.


• Enrollment in the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) and Deferred Compensation

Minimum Qualifications

• Possession of a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State; and


• Six years of post-licensure clinical nursing experience*. Two years of this experience must have been at a managerial level with overall responsibility for the development, implementation, and evaluation of nursing programs and services in a mental health, developmental disabilities, addictions, medical-surgical, or long-term care setting, or psychiatric program in a health care setting.

*A master’s degree in nursing may substitute for one year of post-licensure clinical nursing experience; and a doctorate in nursing may substitute for two years of post-licensure clinical nursing experience.

Notes

The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. The Office of Mental Health embraces diversity and promotes a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, and respected. The New York State Office of Mental Health is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

In order to be hired and to maintain your employment, candidates cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists. If appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists, you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.

Background checks are required.