Nursing Manager - Behavioral Health

About This Role

This Clinical Nurse Manager role provides administrative and clinical supervision to nursing staff across various units at Hartgrove Behavioral Health System. The manager is responsible for ensuring quality care, maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment, and evaluating program effectiveness for patients ranging from children to older adults.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and clinical supervision to all nursing staff
• Assume 24-hour responsibility for the assigned unit to ensure quality care and services
• Ensure the provision of a safe and therapeutic milieu for patients
• Evaluate the effectiveness of programs to meet patient needs
• Actively participate in multidisciplinary treatment plan meetings to coordinate patient care

Requirements

• Graduate of a nursing program
• BSN degree
• 3 years of clinical experience in psychiatric nursing
• Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois
• Knowledge of general and psychiatric nursing principles, concepts, theory
• Knowledge of leadership skills, age-specific growth and development, limit setting, crisis and behavior management

Qualifications

• Graduate of a nursing program. BSN required/MSN preferred.
• Three years clinical experience in psychiatric nursing and 2 years in management preferred. Minimum of 1 year experience or special training in the treatment of the specific age/population served.

Nice to Have

• MSN degree
• 2 years of management experience