Director of Nursing

We are seeking an experienced Director of Nursing to join our team. In partnership with the rest of the Northbrook leadership team, you will play a key role in building and shaping a strong culture at the location, while offering direct coaching and development to our team. 

Our location in Northbrook is our first and largest facility, and consists not only of our widest variety of programs, but also serves as a pilot site for many of our new treatment offerings. 

• →Manage the various activities of this department and to ensure that proper and timely healthcare is provided to our patients
• →Maintain and implement nursing policies and procedures that conform to current standards of nursing practice, facility philosophy, and operational policies while maintaining compliance with state and federal laws and regulations
• →Communicate and interpret policies and procedures to nursing staff, and monitor staff practices and implementation
• →Oversee personnel selection, supervision practices, and ongoing training and evaluation for the nursing department
• →Conduct staff nurse evaluations and training regarding clinical practices, EMR use, and Compass Health Center protocols
• →Collaborate with staff nurses and treatment team to develop, support and coordinate services that ensure delivery of holistic and individualized quality care to Compass Health Center patients
• →Collaborate with Senior Director of Nursing, Chief Clinical Officer, and leaders across the organization in implementation of Compass wide initiatives, including Access to Care, Optimal Outcomes, Continuity & Excellence, and Patient & Family Engagement
• →Be an active participant of the Crisis Team and serve as an alternate Incident Commander
• →Promote customer service and hospitality and responds to and adequately resolves complaints or concerns from patients and their families about nursing services
• →Assure staff is trained in fire and disaster and other emergency procedures, and evaluates performance during drills
• →Exercise overall related administrative functions and clinical responsibilities within the scope of nursing
• →Aptitude to gain working knowledge and expertise of staff nurse duties and responsibilities Perform other duties as requested

• Hold a BSN degree 
• Registered Nurse with current licensure to practice in Illinois 
• Are certified in Healthcare Provider CPR 
• 7+ years of progressive nursing experience, ideally with 2+ years of management experience 
• Mental health experience 
• Internal applicants must have experience successfully implementing organizational initiatives including Optimal Outcomes and Access to Care
• High degree of leadership, excellent interpersonal communication skills, organizational ability, and time management.
• Possess excellent therapeutic communication skills
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer and standing, bending, and moving
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
• Employee may also be required to work at multiple worksites

Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming. Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare.  

A few more things we want you to know: our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities. 

Compass is committed to cultivating diverse and dynamic teams who exude passion for their craft, so whether or not you check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply – we’d be grateful to hear from you!