Unit Manager - Adult Co-Occurring Disorders

Responsibilities

• Provide 24-hour operational management of assigned unit.
• Manage expense budget(s) of assigned clinical programs.
• Maintain clinical environment and staffing strategy that enable program to maintain or exceed budgeted census.
• Be responsible for the provision of clinical services that are based on an understanding of the cognitive and developmental needs of mentally ill adults.
• Serve as supervisor and support staff, utilizing clinical expertise in the delivery of direct patient care, consultative activities, staff development, and treatment planning.
• Participate in promoting effective team-building, quality improvement, and strong orientation toward customer relations.

Requirements

• Work requires written and oral communication skills and comprehensive knowledge of standards of nursing practice - acquired through completion of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited nursing program and at least 2 years of progressively more responsible inpatient psychiatric nursing experience.
• Must possess current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maryland at the time of appointment and continuously throughout tenure in position.
• Work requires clinical and managerial skills, knowledge of psychiatric nursing, and ability to meet the core competencies (as defined on the competency assessment form) required for working with the specific patient population - acquired through three to five years' of progressively more responsible inpatient psychiatric nursing experience.
• Work requires interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership for assigned personnel and to interact effectively with adult psychiatrically ill patients, their family members, visitors, and a variety of Sheppard Pratt department staff (51 to 80% of work time).
• Work requires analytical and problem-solving abilities necessary to effectively manage unit/program resources, collaborate in clinical program planning, identify appropriate measures of acuity for assigned patient population, and evaluate the quality of nursing care.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $46.53 minimum to $76.66 maximum. Pay for this position is determined on a number of factors, including but not limited to, years and level of related experience.