Nurse Manager (RN) - Transitional Care Unit (R7)

MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 132,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nurse Manager (RN) for the Transitional Care Unit at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME, leads day-to-day unit operations, staffing, and care delivery for a 40–50 person team. You will monitor quality, safety, and regulatory compliance while fostering teamwork and professional growth.

Applicants should have inpatient nursing leadership experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Requires current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maine.
• Requires advanced knowledge and expertise in overseeing others and providing inpatient nursing care for 2–3 years of progressive experience.
• Telemetry experience preferred for unit oversight.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations of the Transitional Care Unit (40–50 care team members).
• Ensure safe, high-quality patient care and address quality, safety, and regulatory issues.
• Staffing, scheduling, resource allocation, and workflow optimization to support efficient care delivery.

Skills

Registered Nurse License

Inpatient nursing experience

Telemetry experience

Leadership/management

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Nursing degree (RN)

Job description

Nurse Manager (RN) - Transitional Care Unit (R7)

Location: Portland, ME
Facility: Maine Medical Center
Schedule: Full Time
Shift: Day
Job Category: Management/Leadership
Req #: 92163
Date Posted: Sep 29, 2026

The Transitional Care Unit is a 40-bed medical surgical unit with a focus on patients requiring a longer length of stay. This transitional care unit bridges the gap between various providers, services, and settings.

The Nurse Manager is responsible for the overall day-to-day operations and performance of our unit, providing direct oversight of up to 40-50 care team members. This role ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care through active monitoring and resolution of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance concerns. The Nurse Manager manages daily unit operations, including staffing and scheduling, resource allocation, and workflow optimization to support efficient patient care delivery. Responsibilities also include mentoring and developing staff, conducting performance evaluations, addressing employee relations matters, and fostering a culture of accountability, teamwork, and professional growth. The Nurse Manager serves as a key point of contact for patient and family concerns, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to promote positive patient experiences and achieve operational and clinical excellence.

The ideal candidate will have prior Inpatient Nursing experience, experience managing/leading a clinical team and strong communication skills and experience working seamlessly with interdisciplinary teams. Telemetry experience desired.In this role you will have the ability to be innovative and involved with further growth of the unit. The unit opened June 2024 and there is opportunity for growth to take place with possibility of adding higher acuity patients to the unit.

Summary:

The Nurse Manager in collaboration with the Nursing Director is the vital link between the mission and vision of Maine Medical Center and the delivery of safe patient and family centered care that is compassionate, evidence-based, and provides highest quality care. Reporting through the Nursing Director, this role requires collaboration with staff, physicians, directors, other professional colleagues and occasionally senior administration, to meet the diverse and continually changing challenges of the health care environment. The Nurse Manager must be a creative, autonomous, future-oriented, risk-taking entrepreneur who applies nursing expertise, critical thinking, and effective leadership and management skills to ensure that quality care is provided through satisfied and inspired professionals on a daily basis.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

• License/Certifications: Requires current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maine.
• Experience: Requires advanced knowledge and expertise in providing care in order to oversee others and serve as effective resource at a level normally acquired through two or three years of progressive experience. Inpatient Nursing experience is required. Telemetry experience preferred.
• Requires interpersonal and management skills in order to deal with complex management problems. Communicates effectively with unit and administrative personnel, physicians, a variety of other hospital staff and persons within the community.
• Requires a high level of critical thinking and analytical skills to make management decisions at unit level and make recommendations for consideration on departmental issues.
• Requires the ability to integrate the knowledge of teaching principles and counseling techniques in order to direct the growth of the unit staff.
• Requires a high level of organization skills, effective time management and delegation strategies that include the ability to rapidly prioritize and adjust work flow according to changing unit needs.

Additional Information

MaineHealth is committed to fostering a supportive, inclusive environment where care team members can thrive while making a meaningful impact in the communities we serve across Maine and New Hampshire. We offer competitive benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work options, student loan assistance, professional development opportunities, and well-being resources—so you can grow your career while feeling supported both personally and professionally.

We recognize the value each team member brings to our organization.Any offer of employmentwill depend onqualificationssuch asskills, relevant experience, education, certifications,and otherjob-relatedfactors. Thebase rangeis an estimate and does notreflect the full valueofourtotal compensationpackage.

The pay range for this position is $132,225.60to $178,880.00per year.

Compensation for part-time positions isdeterminedon a prorated basis consistent with the scheduled hours and applicable full-time equivalent (FTE).

In addition to base pay, MaineHealth offerscomprehensivebenefits, recognition programs, career growth opportunities, and,where applicable,shiftdifferentials or other incentives.

MaineHealth will never request financial information during the interview or pre-hiring process. All legitimate communications will come from an email address ending in @mainehealth.org. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately to [emailprotected] .

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Information collected may be used for legitimate business purposes, including security, safety, compliance, investigations, training, quality assurance, and operational management.

MaineHealth policy requires all care team members to be vaccinated, including for influenza, subject to eligibility for medical or religious exemptions which can only be granted in compliance with applicable law.

Notice Regarding Maine Employer Surveillance Statute: Pursuant to Maine's Employer Surveillance Statute, prospective care team members are notified that MaineHealth may monitor, collect, record, review, or retain information related to the use of its systems, networks, applications, files, data, communications platforms (including notified recordings), smart badges, building access, company vehicle GPS data, business calls, and workplace security cameras.

Information collected may be used for legitimate business purposes, including security, safety, compliance, investigations, training, quality assurance, and operational management.