Nurse Manager, Behavioral Health (Randallstown, MD)

Job Title: Nurse Manager, Behavioral Health
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Location: Randallstown, Maryland
Employment Type: Full-Time
Base Salary: $120,000 to $140,000 per year
Industry: Healthcare / Health Services
Category: Medical / Health, Nurse Leadership

Position Summary

Dhaka Technologies Limited Company (DTLC) is hiring on behalf of its client for a Behavioral Health Nurse Manager in Randallstown, Maryland. The Behavioral Health Nurse Manager assumes 24 hour accountability for the coordination of resources to ensure quality service and overall direction and coordination of unit operations in concert with the hospital vision.

Ideal Candidate

Candidates currently working in an inpatient behavioral health facility, ideally an Assistant Nurse Manager ready to progress into a manager role.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish standards and expectations for all personnel within the area of responsibility.
  
• Promote team building through cooperation and consensus building to create positive patient outcomes, including through work groups.
  
• Follow up with and provide feedback to all team members by reviewing expectations with action plans to improve.
  
• Mentor and coach team members through active role modeling, including rounds, team meetings, performance improvement, and evidence based practices.
  
• Design and implement plans for unit improvements that demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and cost effectiveness.
  
• Identify unit based indicators that reflect customer relations, clinical performance, and financial improvement, and implement evidence based practices.
  
• Assist with the preparation and implementation of the operational and capital budget, and develop a unit based expense budget.
  
• Monitor financial expense variance reports for staffing and supplies, maintaining financial variances within plus or minus one percent.
  
• Maintain current knowledge of regulatory standards governing patient care and ensure nursing staff carry out patient care according to those standards, including JCAHO, IDPH/HCFA, and specialty standards.
  
• Incorporate national standards of practice and care into unit based standards, and monitor and measure the effectiveness of those standards.
  
• Develop and ensure compliance with appropriate departmental policy and procedure manuals for use by staff.
  
• Ensure compliance with government regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies.
  

Required Qualifications

• Three or more years of relevant nursing experience
  
• Nursing degree
  
• Registered Nurse license, current Maryland license or eligibility to obtain a Maryland license
  
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
  

Preferred Qualifications

• APRN Clinical Nurse Specialist license, current Maryland license or eligibility to obtain a Maryland license
  
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
  
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)