Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Regional Leadership: Oversees clinical and administrative operations, ensuring strict adherence to internal policies, ANA ethical standards, and NCCHC/ACA benchmarks.
• Staff Management: Directs recruitment, selection, performance evaluations, and support mentorship and succession planning efforts throughout the region. Ensure staff assignments align with professional competency and educational standards.
• Quality & Compliance: Develops regional performance goals, revise and collaborate on operational policies, and maintain documentation integrity through systematic chart reviews.
• Strategic Collaboration: Acts as the primary health services liaison to executive and administrative stakeholders. Proactively mitigate operational risks and resolve service gaps.
• Professionalism: Models ethical leadership, maintain strict patient confidentiality, and foster collaborative relationships across the regional network.
• Partners with facility leadership to develop and implement action plans that address operational, clinical, staffing and compliance challenges.
• Collaborates with executive leadership to develop and execute strategic nursing initiatives that align with organizational goals and objectives.
• Travel regularly to assigned facilities, including overnight travel as needed, to provide onsite leadership, support and operational oversight.
• Participates in required company training, leadership development programs, compliance education, and continuing professional development activities.
• Ensures compliance with all federal, state, local regulations, and company policies, procedures, and standards of care.
• Responds to urgent operational or clinical issues outside of regular business hours as needed.
• Assists with onsite training, evaluations and monthly staff meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned to support FCH’s goals, objectives and values.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

• Knowledge of nursing principles, standards of practice, and evidence-based patient care.
• Strong background in acute and chronic disease management, infection control, and emergency response.
• Strong experience with electronic health records (EHR) and healthcare management software.
• Ability to supervise and mentor nursing staff, ensuring proper patient care and adhere to protocols.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced correctional healthcare environment.
• Maintain positive, collaborative working relationships with leadership, staff, patients, the public and external partners.
• Possess strong judgment, discretion, flexibility and integrity.
• Ability to quickly assess medical emergencies and implement appropriate interventions effectively and calmly.
• Strong decision-making skills in high-pressure situations, balancing medical care with security concerns.
• Strong ability to maintain confidentiality of all proprietary and/or confidential information.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-up and timely completion of assigned tasks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent communication skills with proven experience leading, managing, and coaching medical staff through complex human resources issues and challenges

Requirements

Minimum Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing, Business Administration, or Healthcare Administration from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of seven (7) years in nursing and healthcare, with demonstrated success in multi-site and high-acuity settings.
• Five (5) years of clinical or regional program management experience.
•  OR An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job, such as those listed above, unless otherwise subject to any other requirements set forth in law or regulation.

Required Certifications and Licenses

• Must have and maintain an active, unrestricted Registered Nursing (RN) license in the State of Georgia
• Must have and maintain a current BLS Certification

Preferred Qualifications

• ·   Experience in correctional, jail, or secure forensic environments.

ADA Statement

In accordance with the American Disabilities Act (ADA), FirstClass Healthcare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position, unless doing so would cause undue hardship on the company. Please contact the Human Resources department with any accommodation questions or requests in writing at [email protected].

Physical and Mental Demands

This position requires physical and mental ability to perform essential job functions, including frequent standing, walking, sitting, lifting, bending, pushing, pushing, twisting, kneeling, crouching, grasping, and repetitive motion. Must be able to seize, hold, grasp, turn or otherwise work with your hands. Must be able to perform repetitive tasks, such as typing for extended periods of time, viewing a computer and reading a variety of materials. This role also occasionally requires exerting up to 50 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, or pull objects, with or without reasonable accommodation.

In this position, you must be able to effectively communicate, possess clinical judgment, and respond to emergency or high-stress situations, with or without reasonable accommodation.

This position requires sustained concentration, sound clinical judgment, situational awareness, cognitive flexibility and adaptability, and the ability to remain calm and focused while working in a correctional environment.

Work Environment

Work is performed in a correctional healthcare environment with exposure to noise, communicable diseases, controlled access areas, and unpredictable conditions. Employees must comply with all safety, security, infection control, and emergency response protocols. Reasonable accommodation may be provided in accordance with ADA, provided that it does not present an undue hardship on the company’s operations.

Summary

The Regional Director of Nursing is responsible for the clinical and administrative leadership for nursing operations across the region. This critical leadership role will also bridge corporate strategy and site-level execution, ensuring standardized, high-performing, and compliant nursing services through clinical consultation and continuous quality improvement. This position will report directly to the Executive Director of Nursing.

About Us

FirstClass Healthcare (FCH) is a physician owned and operated Atlanta-based healthcare organization focused on delivering patient-centered care that specializes in treating patients with compassionate care through operational and clinical excellence. FCH is dedicated to providing exceptional care to a population who are most often in their greatest time of need. 

Come join our world-class team of professionals to make a difference and be part of our mission, “Delivering Medically-Led Quality Care to People in Jails and Prisons”.

First Class Healthcare Staffing Management, LLC 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.