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Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a licensed Registered Nurse to serve as Nursing Supervisor at the Fox Developmental Center in Dwight, Illinois. This energetic and detail-oriented person will supervise professional and paraprofessional staff, ensuring twenty-four-hour supervisory coverage, directing staff on individuals’ needs and the implementation of treatment plans and reviewing nursing assessments and nursing care plans for completeness, accuracy and appropriateness of plans. The Fox Developmental Center serves a broad spectrum of individuals with behavioral and medical needs.

Essential Functions

• Serves as Nursing Supervisor for the Fox Developmental Center.
• Serves as full line supervisor.
• Assists the Director of Nursing (DON) and the Assistant Director of Nursing in developing, documenting, monitoring and implementing policies and procedures.
• Evaluates services for individuals served by conducting ongoing audits (e.g. quality assurance) of services provided in adherence to established goals and standards.
• Provides professional nursing services to individuals on an assigned shift.
• Serves as a member on a variety of committees at the facility.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois.
• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in nursing.
• Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years of professional nursing experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities and/or developmental disabilities.
• Three (3) years of professional experience supervising professional nursing staff.
• Three (3) years of professional experience recommending and implementing nursing policies and procedures relative to the latest trends and nursing standards.
• Two (2) years of professional experience reviewing program needs, setting priorities and assigning nursing staff to ensure compliance with standards of care and practice for a public or private organization.
• Two (2) years of professional experience training nursing staff in nursing care practices and techniques.
• Two (2) years of professional nursing experience communicating in verbal or written form with patients and/or individuals.  

Conditions of Employment

• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays on a rotation basis as Administrator on Duty (AOD).
• Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individuals or others.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties, with overnight stays as appropriate.

*All conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.