Behavioral Health Nurse Manager I

Kaiser Permanente; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Atlanta, GA seeks a Behavioral Health Nurse Manager I to lead ambulatory operations and ensure high quality patient care across locations.

Responsibilities include developing staff, enforcing standards, managing resources, and collaborating with physicians and care teams to deliver safe, effective treatment and compliant operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) and a minimum of three years in business operations, clinical care, or related field.
• Minimum two years in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Licensed RN in Georgia and BLS certification at hire; strong clinical supervision skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides developmental opportunities; leads performance feedback and coaching.
• Manages ambulatory operations; aligns resources and budgets; ensures timelines and standards.
• Drives patient care improvements; ensures compliance with regulatory standards and readiness.
• Develops strategic partnerships; uses data to guide daily operations and improvement projects.
• Oversees standardized care delivery and staff performance; monitors risks and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Ambiguity management

Attention to Detail

Communication

Leadership

Nursing Principles

Patient Safety

Change Management

Decision Making

Stakeholder Management

Team Building

Problem Solving

Strategic Thinking

Collaboration

Quality Improvement

Mentoring/Coaching

Clinical Supervision

Education

BSN

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for implementing best practice models; implementing patient care delivery systems and practice standards in one or more locations; investigating and resolving patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; collaborating with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; monitoring resource needs in assigned clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; monitoring the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; fostering a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise of self and/or team, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.

• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.

• Manages ambulatory operations to support patient care by: driving implementation of action items and supporting compliance with timelines and financial commitments; using and providing feedback on standard reports and identifying needed ad hoc reporting to meet specific client needs related to workflow and performance targets; providing feedback as needed on data collection, reviewing data, and translating reports into short-term operational initiatives; managing human resources activities related to recruitment, creating and ensuring the use of standardized procedures and processes for employee management; designing survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports;and assisting in the development and management of their departments budget, expenditures, and payroll with input from a higher-level leader.

• Ensures standardized care delivery by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians and subject matter experts and managing complex work streams and implementing strategic initiatives with significant program impact; using data and analysis to ensure strategic alignment while developing and implementing plans; proactively monitoring and managing daily operational activities involving patient care management; managing resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing multidisciplinary ambulatory team(s); implementing emergency preparedness programs and ensuring the teams emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current and that staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; and leading project teams, initiatives and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives.

• Manages improvements to patient-centered operations and technology processes by: defining issues and overseeing the development of goals and priorities for strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; applying a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic department initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

• Attention to Detail

• Business Knowledge

• Communication

• Constructive Feedback

• Critical Thinking

• Cross-Group Collaboration

• Decision Making

• Dependability

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support

• Drives Results

• Facilitation Skills

• Health Care Industry

• Influencing Others

• Integrity

• Leadership

• Learning Agility

• Organizational Savvy

• Problem Solving

• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall

• Strategic Thinking

• Team Building

• Teamwork

• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Emergency Preparedness

• Evidence-Based Medicine Principles

• Licensure Principles

• Nursing Principles

• Patient Safety

• Change Management

• Confidentiality

• Conflict Resolution

• Human Resources Systems

• Legal And Regulatory Requirements

• Microsoft Office

• Outcome Driven Innovation

• Stakeholder Management

• Training

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum three (3) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.

• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

• Minimum two (2) years of customer or member/patient service experience.

• Basic Life Support required at hire

• Registered Professional Nurse License (Georgia) required at hire

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Nursing (MSN) OR Master's degree in a business, nursing, health care, or directly related field and Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN).

• Two (2) years of project/program management and/or implementation-related experience.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Behavioral Health Nurse Manager I

LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia

REQNUMBER: 1438906

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.