Inpatient Nurse Manager - RN

Position Summary

The RN Inpatient Nurse Manager provides clinical and operational leadership for nursing services within a Florida behavioral health hospital and addiction treatment center. This position supervises Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Behavioral Health Technicians, and other assigned staff while overseeing safe, effective, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented care for individuals receiving inpatient psychiatric, crisis stabilization, detoxification, and substance use disorder treatment services.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership and clinical oversight for inpatient nursing operations, including psychiatric, crisis stabilization, detoxification, and addiction recovery services.
• Supervise, coach, and support RNs, LPNs, Behavioral Health Technicians, and other assigned team members to ensure safe staffing, effective patient care, and compliance with hospital policies.
• Ensure timely nursing assessment, triage, care planning, medication administration, withdrawal monitoring, vital sign review, and response to changes in patient condition.
• Coordinate with physicians, advanced practice providers, clinical leaders, and interdisciplinary treatment teams to support individualized, medically appropriate, and clinically integrated care.
• Respond to medical and behavioral health emergencies, including withdrawal complications, medication reactions, accidental injuries, psychiatric escalation, and other urgent patient care needs.
• Promote a safe, therapeutic, trauma-informed environment that supports patient dignity, de-escalation, infection prevention, suicide risk mitigation, and recovery-focused care.
• Monitor medication practices, medication occurrences, documentation accuracy, and corrective action processes in accordance with applicable Florida nursing standards, accreditation requirements, and organizational policy.
• Develop and maintain staff schedules, daily assignments, and coverage plans to support patient acuity, census needs, regulatory expectations, and budgetary guidelines, including appropriate management of overtime.
• Participate in recruitment, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, competency validation, coaching, performance management, and retention efforts for nursing and behavioral health support staff.
• Ensure staff complete required orientation, annual competencies, continuing education, crisis prevention training, and other assigned learning within required timeframes.
• Complete all evaluations and required status notices in a timely manner.
• Facilitate staff meetings, huddles, education sessions, and communication forums to promote accountability, teamwork, patient safety, and consistent practice across shifts.
• Support compliance with applicable Florida regulations, accreditation standards, infection prevention expectations, patient rights requirements, and organizational policies governing inpatient behavioral health and addiction treatment services.
• Participate in treatment team meetings, quality reviews, incident reviews, root cause analyses, and performance improvement initiatives related to safety, documentation, patient outcomes, and staff practice.
• Demonstrates interest in long term and short-term goals and objectives of the company.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Nursing, Hospital Administrator, Program Director, Vice President, or other executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Current Registered Nurse license in the State of Florida, or eligibility to obtain Florida RN licensure prior to employment.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
• Minimum of four (4) years of professional nursing experience required, with experience in inpatient behavioral health, psychiatric, crisis stabilization, detoxification, substance use disorder treatment, or addiction recovery services strongly preferred.
• Minimum of two (2) years of supervisory, charge nurse, nurse manager, or comparable nursing leadership experience required.
• Applicant must maintain active Florida RN licensure and meet all organizational, regulatory, and continuing education requirements applicable to inpatient behavioral health and addiction treatment services.
• Telehealth participation may be required based on program needs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of principles, theories, and practices of nursing related to mental health and/or substance abuse services.
• Detailed knowledge of information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and provide alternative treatments.
• Skilled in effective entering, transcribing, recording, and storing information in written or electronic form.
• Ability to plan, supervise and evaluate the work of direct reports.
• Aptitude to evaluate services within assigned program and give input.
• Capable of communicating ideas clearly and effectively verbally and in writing to produce clear and concise reports.
• Effectively apply techniques of a complex nature to make a decision or solve a problem by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions.

Supervisory Requirements

• Communicate the strategic direction of the organization and encourage participation by all team members.
• Provide leadership and guidance to all aspects of the department.
• Take an active role in monitoring the identification, development, and execution of strategic objectives.
• Involve, as appropriate, all team members to achieve goals.
• Effectively communicate to team members any changes and newsworthy events within the department or company.
• Handle difficult team member situations directly, using appropriate discretion and Human Resource advice to show respect for the individual.
• Champion change and effectively manage the implementation of new ideas.
• Reinforces team approach throughout functions; support and solicit input from team members at all levels within the company.

Pay

$81,850.00—$122,740.00

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health coverage
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• 403b retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off and ten paid holidays
• AD&D Insurance, Life Insurance, and Long Term Disability (company paid)
• Employee Resource Groups
• Continuing education opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program

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