Job Description

Charge Nurse
Belton
45822BR
Position Description
Employees in this classification are responsible for nursing care at Bell County Jail in Belton, TX. Implements unit objectives and administrative policies.
Major/Essential Functions
As a clinical leader, you'll play an important role in creating an environment where patients receive quality care and clinical teams have the support they need to succeed. You'll combine clinical expertise, leadership, and operational oversight to help drive safe, effective, and compassionate care.
- Clinical Operations Oversight: Provide leadership and oversight of daily clinical operations, ensuring compliance with organizational, state, and regulatory standards. Maintain appropriate staffing and skill mix to support safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
- Staff Supervision and Development: Lead, support, and develop clinical team members through ongoing coaching, feedback, performance evaluations, and professional development.
- Quality and Compliance: Promote a culture of quality, safety, and regulatory readiness. Support continuous improvement initiatives and ensure adherence to established clinical and compliance standards.
- Clinical Care and Documentation: Ensure patients receive timely, responsive clinical care, including sick-call and emergency services. Promote accurate, thorough, and timely clinical documentation.
- Patient Care Coordination: Support effective coordination of care and ensure patients with higher-risk or complex needs are appropriately identified and escalated through established clinical channels.
- Communication and Reporting: Foster clear and consistent communication among clinical staff and leadership. Ensure appropriate incident reporting, effective shift handoffs, and participation in required clinical and leadership meetings.
- Operational Support: Demonstrate flexibility in supporting evolving operational needs, including cross-coverage and special assignments, while maintaining high standards of clinical and operational performance.
Required Qualifications
- Graduate from an accredited nursing program.
- Two years of nursing experience, with at least 6 months of that experience as a Registered Nurse. Possession of a valid, current RN license as approved by the Texas State Board of Examiners.
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Like Texas itself, we are an independent and proud institution that is part of a larger union, the Texas Tech University System. As a university separate from Texas Tech University, we have been entrusted with a singular charge: to teach the next generation of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers and health care professionals while simultaneously providing the people of West Texas with world-class patient care. We are both an institution of higher learning and a place where real people come for life-saving medical care.
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