Nurse Manager- Behavioral Health

OPEN JOB: Nurse Manager- Behavioral Health
LOCATION: Randallstown, Maryland
***Relocation Assistance Available
BASE SALARY: $97,323 to $145,000

Ideal Candidate

- Looking for someone who is currently in an inpatient behavioral health facility.

- Ideally a current Nurse Manger or an Assistant Nurse Manager looking to progress to a Manager.

DETAILS:

- The Behavioral Health Nurse Manager assumes 24-hour accountability for the coordination of resources to ensure quality service to all customers, reflecting the mission, vision, and philosophy of the Department of Nursing.

- Provides overall direction for and coordination of unit operations in concert with Hospital vision, mission, goals, and department specific goals and objectives.

- Demonstrates awareness of changes, concepts in nursing practice and treatment modalities, and utilizes results of Performance Improvement activities to improve the quality of patient care.

- Communicates effectively with leadership team regarding staff, physician and systems problems or issues affecting both the department as a whole and individual services.

- Networks and utilizes resources of other disciplines and allied health personnel to improve delivery of patient care.

- Demonstrates awareness of ethical/legal aspects surrounding the provision of patient care.

- Ensures self and unit staff functions within legal limitation.

- Ensures that hourly rounding is consistently and effectively completed on the unit according to plan, and that staff members are coached as necessary to achieve success.

- 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

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

- Nursing Degree

- Required: 3-5 years

- 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

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:

- MS WORD Resume

- required compensation.

- Contact information.

- Availability

Upon receipt, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the position in full detail.

STEPHEN FLEISCHNER
Recruiting Manager
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
EMAIL: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefleischner/