Clinical Area Director - Nurse Practitioners

Requirements

• Master's degree in advanced nursing required.
• Actively licensed Advanced Nurse Practitioner (at least two years with prescribing authority preferred)
• 3+ years of progressively responsible management experience and staff supervision are required.
• Excellent time management, communication, and stress management skills.
• Demonstrated empathy and interpersonal skills.
• Clinical experience managing services, including mental health and SUD, and populations with significant medical, social, and behavioral complexity.
• Ability to provide leadership and team management as well as ability to recruit and retain clinical staff.
• Flexibility
• Self-aware. Uses appropriate self-expression and effective interpersonal skills.
• Builds trust and influences action. Serves as a positive role model.
• Adapts communication style and delivery method effectively. Listens to understand and facilitates open exchange of ideas.
• Seeks to clarify and understand issues, makes decisions based on data, presents conclusions appropriately, makes decisions while considering long-term impact and self-corrects ineffective solutions.
• Participates in organization wide goal setting and communicates organization wide objectives to behavioral health team.
• Builds long term ability to produce and sustain results by successfully acquiring and retaining the right talent.
• Demonstrates effective problem-solving skills; assess and research preventable errors and incidents.

Additional Information

The Clinical Area Director of Nurse Practitioners at GuideStar Eldercare (GSE) is responsible for deploying, empowering, supporting, and optimizing clinical practices that involve nurse practitioners across each region of GuideStar's service market. This position collaborates with other operational leaders and the executive team in developing strategy and aligning strategic vision and infrastructure to successfully build and execute the Model, driving growth, operational efficiency, and financial performance. Ensures that GSE clinicians provide consistent quality, service, and improved outcomes for behavioral health patients in all facilities GuideStar serves. The Clinical Area Director of Nurse Practitioners will work at our Corporate office in Crown Point, Indiana when not fulfilling position-related travel obligations. All GuideStar employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu. GuideStar follows all applicable laws; contact humanresources@guidestareldercare.com for more information. Testing for illegal drugs will be administered to all final candidates for whom an offer of employment has been extended. WHAT MAKES US GREAT GuideStar Eldercare is the national leader in neurobehavioral long-term care services, providing expert neuropsychiatric and dementia care services to nursing homes and memory care facilities. GuideStar Eldercare's mission is to enhance the quality of life for patients by easing their suffering while actively promoting their safety, functionality, and dignity. We believe in bringing the highest level of clinical care to the long-term care population. GuideStar is led by CEO and Founder Dr. Steven L. Posar, alongside our clinical team of expert physicians, psychiatrists, gerontologists, neurologists, and psychologists, who work with our clinical staff to find the best possible outcomes for our shared patients. Our neurologically based model ensures proper diagnosis and treatment, which improves care outcomes for patients with dementia, neurocognitive impairments, and/or psychiatric conditions. GuideStar is dedicated to rigorous clinical care protocols and exceptional documentation and communication, based on the most up-to-date research and practice. Our dedication is underscored by our own research and desire to educate the greater long-term care industry. Most recently, our research on antipsychotic reduction through neurologic protocols was published in JAMDA in September of 2023. Associations and publications our research has been featured in include: PALTC, McKnight's, AAGP, OHCA, and AAIC. GuideStar Eldercare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. GuideStar is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, GuideStar will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need accommodation please contact us at careers@guidestareldercare.com

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