Nurse (RN) Manager - Day Shift

Acadia Healthcare; Danville (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Danville, in partnership with Acadia Healthcare, seeks an RN Manager to lead nursing operations for the unit. You will oversee staffing, regulatory compliance, and the delivery of behavioral health nursing services, while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to meet patient needs and maintain high-quality care.

The role emphasizes patient safety, staff development, and effective management of resources within a fast-paced behavioral health setting in

Qualifications

• BSN or higher strongly preferred
• Current registered nursing license in state required
• Three years as a registered nurse strongly preferred
• Two years RN experience required
• One year of charge RN or other administrative experience required

Responsibilities

• Anticipate census and acuity changes and allocate nursing resources
• Provide customer service leadership with emphasis on patient safety
• Ensure standard of care and provide consultations to the staff
• Manage staff and coordinate care across departments
• Recruit, hire and train new staff
• Develop educational programs for staff
• Assist with policies and procedures development
• Prepare reports on programs and quality initiatives
• Perform administrative duties including budgeting and expenditures
• Provide direct care as needed

Education

BSN or higher

Current RN license

Leadership/administrative experience

Patient population experience

Charge nurse supervision

Job description

Overview

Geisinger Behavioral, Danville is seeking a RN Manager to joing the team!

Acadia Healthcare and Geisinger Health have partnered to establish a state-of-the-art, 96-bed behavioral health hospital in Danville, PA. Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Danville will serve pediatric and adult patients, offering inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient programming, and ECT services. It will also serve as a teaching hospital for students and residents of Geisinger’s College of Health Sciences.

This facility will help meet the urgent need for accessible, high-quality psychiatric care in the region, expanding capacity to support patients with diverse mental health needs.

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Assists the DON/CNO with directing, planning, coordinating, monitoring and supervising the effective and efficient use of the operations of nursing for assigned units. Oversees the delivery of behavioral health/nursing services in a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers at all times.

Collaborate with interdisciplinary treatment teams, other departments and administration to ensure that all residents’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met and when they are not met, acknowledges and works to resolve customer complaints.

Provide leadership to assure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, as well as nursing practice standards. Recognizes that patient safety is a top priority.

Responsibilities

• Anticipates and effectively manage changes in census and acuity and allocates nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care needed
• Role models expectations related to customer service and demonstrates a sense of urgency related to the importance of patient safety
• Accountable for the standard of care at the facility, providing consultations and expertise in the delivery of care to patient.
• Serve as a clinical and service resource to nursing staff and other staff as assigned.
• Manage the activities of staff, coordinating safe and appropriate care between departments and disciplines.
• Manage and evaluate work activities of nursing, technical, clerical, service or maintenance staff for the unit, work group and other facility staff as directed.
• Analyze information/situation to choose the best solution(s) to solve problems.
• Responsible for recruitment, hiring and training of new staff.
• Identify the educational needs of others and develop educational or training programs.
• Assist with the development and implementation of organizational policies and procedures for the facility.
• Prepare reports to inform management of the status and implementation of programs, services and quality initiatives of the unit.
• Perform administrative or managerial functions such as planning budgets and authorizing expenditures.
• Provide direct care as needed.

OTHER FUNCTIONS:

• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

OTHER FUNCTIONS:

• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• BSN or higher strongly preferred
• Current registered nursing license in State of facility required
• Three years as a registered nurse strongly preferred
• Two years of registered nursing experience required
• Two years of prior experience as a registered nursing with patient population of the facility is preferred.
• One year of prior experience with the population required
• Prior experience as a house supervisor strongly preferred
• One year of charge RN or other administrative experience required.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Current RN license as required by state.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

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