Director Nursing – Psychiatry and Emergency Services

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, NH

Are you a visionary nursing leader with a passion for psychiatric care and emergency medicine? Join the region’s only Level I Trauma Center and Academic Medical Center in the rural heart of New England. DHMC seeks a Director of Nursing to lead psychiatric and emergency nursing across inpatient, emergency, and ambulatory settings by shaping care delivery, quality, staffing, training, and strategic program development in a system that values innovation, compassion, and professional growth. Our psychiatric and emergency service lines are growing, so this new leader will be instrumental in our success.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership for nursing services across psychiatric and emergency care at DHMC and affiliated contracted entities.
• Ensure compliance with budgetary, regulatory, and accreditation requirements; oversee staffing models, training, and documentation standards.
• Partner with medical and administrative leaders to deliver safe, effective, high-quality, and cost-effective patient care.
• Advance nursing practice through continuous learning, recognition, and professional development.
• Lead patient-experience improvement: review data, address concerns, implement actions; track engagement and reduce turnover.
• Champion shared governance, empowering nurses to influence practice and operational decisions.
• Contribute to system leadership (committees, professional organizations, publishing, teaching, research).
• Recommend policy changes to align operations with organizational strategy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
• Master’s degree in Psychiatric Nursing (MSN) required; direct patient-care experience required.
• 5+ years of progressive nursing management/leadership experience.
• Specialty certification strongly preferred; ongoing professional education and participation in professional organizations desired.

Licensure/Certification

• Active RN license in New Hampshire (or eligibility).

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We have new, updated nursing rates
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs
• Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We understand that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets, or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic is a line at the chair lift on the ski mountain.

Read more about Dartmouth Hitchcock and why YOU should work here.

We are Dartmouth Health, one integrated, award-winning health system of diverse facilities across New Hampshire and Vermont. From rural critical access clinics to academic medicine and research, you will find the opportunity, training, benefits, and support to help you thrive in your career. We are an organization focused on the success of every employee in every role and want you to be part of our team. Join Dartmouth Health and help us shape the future of healthcare.

Applicants are encouraged to learn more and apply at:

https://careers-dartmouth-hitchcock.icims.com/jobs/33609/director-nursing-%E2%80%93-psychiatry-and-emergency-services/job

Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.