Nurse Manager Behavioral Health

About the role

This job description applies to Nurse Manager and Nurse Manager‑Complex. The difference is the scope level below. The role involves managing and supervising nursing departments. Collaborating with nursing leaders and other facility managers and departments, the nurse manager is key in ensuring excellent patient care, achieving financial objectives, and fostering leadership development. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 50% Tactical (day‑to‑day activities like staffing and equipment availability), 40% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 10% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals). Scope Level 1 Nurse Manager: Manages 50 headcount or more than 2 departments and manages a department operating 24/7. Span of control may vary for leaders responsible for complex nursing programs with multi‑center or enterprise‑wide reach. Variances from established guidelines must be supported by demonstrated program complexity and scope and require iNet approval. This role encompasses a range of responsibilities that report to a Nurse Director. The position is based at Intermountain Health LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the clinical nursing environment, contributing to strategic planning, day‑to‑day operations, and standards of care.
• Facilitating collaborative problem‑solving, advocating for resources, promoting shared decision‑making, and implementing the organization's vision and values.
• Managing budgets.
• Ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification.
• Championing the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards.
• Facilitating collaborative decision‑making and upholding professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level.
• Assisting with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for the unit.
• Using resources effectively and managing expenses to meet financial goals of the department.
• Modeling and fostering an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
• Ensuring a competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient