Dir, Nursing, Childrens Servs Elwyn paid time off, tuition reimbursement United States, Pennsylvania, Media Oct 13, 2026

Overview Join a Team That Changes Lives For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change - helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives. Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives - including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters. At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others.

We offer:

Generous Paid Time Off

Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages

Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay

Paid On-the-Job Training

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth

Flexible Schedules

Retirement Savings Plan Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today. Job Description Elwyn seeks a Director of Nursing to lead the Children's Services nursing team in providing normalized, empathic, coordinated, therapeutic, and preventative health care to children with severe and persistent behavioral health challenges and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities within a variety of settings. The Director of Nursing oversees the functions associated with care coordination and the delivery of nursing services while ensuring that both regulatory and clinical practice standards are met with the focus on appropriate medical and nursing management of both acute and chronic illness as well as working collaboratively with physicians, Elwyn staff, clinicians, therapists, other ancillary care providers, hospital care teams, pharmacies, and external vendors. Duties & Responsibilities Provides nursing oversight for the Children's Services education and residential treatment facilities and programs to ensure that nursing practice consistently meets regulatory requirements, Elwyn policies and procedures, and clinical best practice standards

Ensures that ongoing clinical assessments, coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration are performed following nursing scope of practice to meet client health care needs

Ensures that appropriate health care assessments, including children's nursing clinical assessments and reports, are accurate and completed as directed by the treatment team by following policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, best practices, and nursing scope of practice

Presents health care data collected through direct observation, interview, clinical assessment, and records review to the physician and larger treatment team to ensure a comprehensive plan of care

Sets health care priorities in accordance with professional judgment

Serves as a resource person to the staff and children served at Elwyn for questions related to health and wellness

Reviews follow-up documentation of all recommendations for specialized services/consultations as necessary

Reviews recommendations of consulting providers and liaisons with physicians and care providers for follow-up to ensure a comprehensive plan of care

Advocates for all children served by all Children's Services programs by monitoring the quality of the medical and behavioral health supportive care provided by staff and community-based providers to ensure that care standards meet regulatory guidelines while encompassing a person-centered plan of care

Coordinates activities and communication between external pharmacies, durable medical equipment (DME) providers, laboratory services, vendors, and insurers to ensure that children's specific needs are met in a clinically prudent and fiscally sound manner

Maintains up-to-date inventory of nutritional supplements, medical equipment, personal protective equipment, and medical/dietary supplies to be used for resident and staff health, safety and wellness

Executes infection control practices, isolation procedures, and point of care testing related to infectious disease, particularly COVID-19, to maintain health and safety standards

Provides nursing leadership, direction, and support to the extended care team to ensure that consumer health and safety needs are adequately addressed

Monitors the acute, chronic, and prophylactic healthcare needs of residents including regular review or having a designee review all physicians' orders related to medications, treatments, nutritional support, diagnostic testing, and ancillary therapies on at least a monthly basis to ensure a comprehensive plan of care

Assists managers and directors with ensuring performance standards of any staffing agency-placed personnel resources and addressing any performance issues with agency liaisons

Provides supervision of assigned staff in the areas including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, leadership, coaching, training, performance management, and progressive disciplinary action, promotion, and termination

Provides nursing and program staff in-service training and ongoing staff development on health-related topics, medical procedures, and infection control as needed to ensure that nursing staff are adhering to current and best practices in following clinical nursing care standards and are meeting children-specific health care needs and

organizational learning needs including regulatory training requirements

Directs the orientation and training of assigned nursing personnel to ensure effective onboarding

Utilizes quality improvement strategies to address the following:

Clinical performance of nursing staff through monthly audits of nursing documentation and care delivery

Use of best practice guidelines in promoting health maintenance and disease prevention strategies

Compliance with regulatory standards as they relate to specific program areas, such as licensing regulations and current policy

Access to high quality care consistent with consumer specific needs

Health care utilization data

Assigns specific quality improvement activities/functions to nursing staff as necessary

As part of the therapeutic team, monitors, develops, and maintains a safe and therapeutic living environment, including but not limited to monitoring for potential threats to health and safety and take appropriate actions to eliminate such threats

Facilitates communication and collaboration with community-based social service agencies, healthcare providers, insurance providers, county and state offices of behavioral health, families, and other stakeholders in order to ensure quality care for the individuals served

Reviews critical incidents related to the health and safety needs of the consumers and provides timely follow-up and communication to appropriate administrative staff

Reviews medically complicated, high acuity cases in residential and educational programs with the interdisciplinary team in routine meetings, recommending changes and improvements in care delivery, as needed, and determining the appropriateness for admission to the behavioral health programs

Provides on-call nursing support to staff in managing emergent healthcare issues

Attends both professional and organizational meetings necessary to keep abreast of changes in nursing practice.

Actively participates (or has a nursing designee participate) in Treatment Team and Morning Meeting (Rounds) to ensure the continuity of care of the residents

Performs other duties as assigned Policy and Procedure Development Serves as a member of the Elwyn Nursing Policy and Procedure Committee to assist in prioritizing policy and procedure review and collaborates with other committee members to ensure compliance with nursing best practice standards and consistency across Elwyn services and locations; presents policies and procedures to the Nursing Policy and Procedure Committee for review and approval

Works closely with the Nurse Educator to ensure that all behavioral health and education nursing staff are educated in nursing operations

Identifies specific clinical and operational needs and works with the program nursing leadership team to develop policies, procedures, and training guidelines as needed; reviews and revises existing nursing policies and procedure for behavioral health and education on at least an annual basis, as assigned by the Service Line's Quality Improvement team; participates in the development of new policies as the needs arise

Assures adherence to all established healthcare and safety policies, procedures, protocols, and regulations as they apply to the children's residential services and educational programs through regular review of practices Training, Education, and Professional Development Works closely with the Quality Improvement Director, to facilitate, schedule, and track the completion of orientation requirements and annual training/education requirements for behavioral health and education nursing services, ensuring that requirements are met; assists Quality Improvement Director in maintaining staff credentialing files that comply with regulatory requirements

Assists program managers and directors with specific training initiatives as needed

Participates in the ongoing development and evaluation of nursing staff through timely performance-based feedback and annual performance evaluations

Monitors and maintains current nursing licensure to ensure compliance with Pennsylvania's State Board of Nursing Licensing requirements

Attends and participates in ongoing educational opportunities designed specifically to better support the children served and obtains updated nursing and regulatory information to share with the program nursing and nursing leadership staff

Applies best practices to the nursing practice at Elwyn Other Duties Represents Childrens Services on Elwyn committees (e.g. Pharmacy and Therapeutics), workgroups, and project teams as assigned

Performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), crisis intervention, safe crisis management, and medication administration using agency-trained protocols

Performs other duties as assigned Qualifications, Education & Experience Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN); Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) preferred

Five (5) years demonstrated experience with increasingly progressive management responsibilities in healthcare operations

Ten (10) years of delivering direct clinical nursing services

Behavioral health or school nursing experience preferred

Demonstrated experience executing infection control practices, isolation procedures, and point of care testing related to infectious disease, particularly

COVID-19

Experience working with pediatric population with medical and behavioral health challenges,

Experience working with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities preferred.

Human service experience highly preferred

Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage and prioritize multiple, often competing, priorities

Demonstrated strong attention to detail

Demonstrated excellent planning, analytic, strong time management, and organizational skills

Demonstrated excellent judgment with the ability to independently solve problems and make decisions with little or no need for direct supervision

Demonstrated ability to anticipate future needed changes or identify problem areas and take effective actions

Must possess excellent customer interaction, negotiation, conflict resolution, collaboration, presentation, written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills

Demonstrated intermediate proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience in the use of OneDrive / SharePoint or similar cloud-based groupware, collaboration, and storage computing solutions preferred

Experience with Electronic Health Record (EHR) / Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

Current CPR certification with ability to perform CPR using agency-trained protocols; ability to perform safe crisis management and medication administration

Demonstrated strong leadership skills, troubleshooting capability, and ongoing development of staff

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels

Must possess a current, valid driver's license in state of residence, have a minimum of two (2) years of driving experience within the United States, and have an acceptable driving record. Equal Opportunity Employer Elwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Elwyn does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, pregnancy status, medical condition, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, sexual orientation or identity, age, national origin, citizenship, handicap status, marital or family status, mental or physical disability, perceived disability, military or veteran status, political activities or affiliations, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at ADArequest@elwyn.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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