Job Title – Nurse manager / Behavioral Health

Location –Randallstown, Maryland

Base Salary – $120,000 – $140,000

Industry: Healthcare / Health Services

Job Category: Medical / Health – Nurse Leadership

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Looking for someone who is currently in an inpatient behavioral health facility. Ideally an Assistant Nurse Manager looking to progress to a manager.

Job Details:

The Behavioral Health Nurse Manager assumes 24-hour accountability for the coordination of resources to ensure quality service and overall direction for and coordination of unit operations in concert with Hospital vision.

Establishes standards and expectations for all personnel within the area of responsibility. Promotes team building through cooperation and consensus building to create positive patient outcomes, i. e. work groups. Follows up with and provides feedback to all team members by reviewing expectations with action plans to improve. Mentors and coaches team members through active role modeling, i. e. rounds, team meetings, performance improvement, evidenced based practices.

Designs and implements plans for unit improvements which demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and cost effectiveness. Identifies unit-based indicators that reflect customer relations, clinical performance, and financial improvement. Implements evidence-based practices.

Assists with the preparation and implementation of operational and capital budget. Develops a unit-based expense budget. Monitors financial expense variance reports for staffing and supplies. Maintains financial variances plus or minus one percent.

Knowledgeable about current regulatory standards governing patient care and ensures that nursing staff carries out patient care according to those standards. (i. e. JCAHO, IDPH/HCFA, specialty). Incorporates national standards of practice and care into unit-based standards. Monitors and measures effectiveness of unit standards of practice and care. Develop and ensure compliance with appropriate departmental policy and procedure manuals for use by the staff. Ensure compliance with government regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies

Required Skills:

3+ years

Nursing Degree

Registered Nurse License

Current Maryland license or eligibility to obtain Maryland license

Basic Life Support

Preferred:

APRN-Clinical Nurse Specialist License – Current Maryland license or eligibility to obtain Maryland license

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support

Pediatric Advanced Life Support