Senior Manager - Behavioral Health

TriHealth, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TriHealth is seeking a Senior Manager - Behavioral Health at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati to lead inpatient behavioral health intake and nursing practices across the system. You will partner with ED and behavioral health leaders to standardize processes, improve workflows, and ensure high-quality patient care.

This nursing leadership role focuses on strategic planning, regulatory readiness, staff development, and system-level performance improvement, with responsibility for 60–99

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 5-7 years progressive nursing leadership experience required.
• 2-3 years clinical nursing experience required.
• RN license required.
• BLS for Healthcare Providers required.

Responsibilities

• Provides system-wide leadership for inpatient behavioral health intake, nursing practice, quality, safety, patient access, and clinical outcomes.
• Oversees inpatient behavioral health intake, inpatient therapy, and social work services.
• Leads standardization and optimization of behavioral health intake processes across Emergency Departments to promote safe, timely patient placement and transitions of care.
• Partners with ED, nursing, behavioral health, therapy, and social work leaders to improve workflows and reduce variation in practice.
• Identifies key quality and performance indicators and leads system-wide performance improvement initiatives.
• Advances evidence-based behavioral health nursing practices, including suicide prevention and restraint-related initiatives.
• Serves as a clinical advisor and system resource for behavioral health nursing best practices, policies, procedures, and clinical decision-making.
• Develops and implements clinical competencies, education, training, and practice standards for behavioral health team members.
• Mentors and supports leaders and team members to promote professional development and clinical excellence.
• Leads strategic initiatives related to behavioral health intake, therapy, social work, and nursing practice.
• Supports accreditation, regulatory compliance, and alignment of clinical practice with organizational policies and standards.
• Promotes recruitment, retention, professional development, and a positive culture for behavioral health nursing.
• Builds collaborative relationships across nursing, physicians, EDs, and other interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient care.
• Encourages continuing education, specialty certification, evidence-based practice, nursing research, professional organization involvement, and community engagement.
• Provides leadership and oversight for a direct/indirect report span of 60–99 team members, including 60–99 indirect FTEs.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Nursing

Quality Improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Senior Manager - Behavioral Health

Full Time Day Shift - TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital

Location:

375 Dixmyth Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220

Work Schedule:

• Full Time Days - (80 hours bi-weekly)

Job Overview:

This nursing leadership role has system-wide responsibility for inpatient behavioral health intake across system Emergency Departments and serves as the nursing clinical advisor and subject matter expert for behavioral health best practices. This nursing leadership position provides strategic, system-level leadership for quality, safety, access, clinical outcomes, competency development, and evidence-based behavioral health nursing practice. The role leads standardization and optimization of inpatient behavioral health intake, partners closely with Emergency Departments and behavioral health teams, and advances initiatives that strengthen patient care, regulatory readiness, staff capability, and the behavioral health care environment.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• 5-7 years experience Progressive Leadership in Nursing in a related field (Required)
• 2-3 years of clinical experience in Nursing (Required)
• Membership in related professional organization preferred
• Certification within specialty area within 2 years of hire
• Registered Nurse (Required)
• BLS for Healthcare Providers

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides system-wide leadership for inpatient behavioral health intake, nursing practice, quality, safety, patient access, and clinical outcomes.
• Oversees inpatient behavioral health intake, inpatient therapy, and social work services.
• Leads the standardization and optimization of behavioral health intake processes across Emergency Departments to promote safe, timely patient placement and transitions of care.
• Partners with Emergency Department, nursing, behavioral health, therapy, and social work leaders to improve workflows and reduce variation in practice.
• Identifies key quality and performance indicators and leads system-wide performance improvement initiatives.
• Advances evidence-based behavioral health nursing practices, including suicide prevention and restraint-related initiatives.
• Serves as a clinical advisor and system resource for behavioral health nursing best practices, policies, procedures, and clinical decision-making.
• Develops and implements clinical competencies, education, training, and practice standards for behavioral health team members.
• Mentors and supports leaders and team members to promote professional development and clinical excellence.
• Leads strategic initiatives related to behavioral health intake, therapy, social work, and nursing practice.
• Supports accreditation, regulatory compliance, and alignment of clinical practice with organizational policies and standards.
• Promotes recruitment, retention, professional development, and a positive culture for behavioral health nursing.
• Builds collaborative relationships across nursing, physicians, Emergency Departments, and other interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient care.
• Encourages continuing education, specialty certification, evidence-based practice, nursing research, professional organization involvement, and community engagement.
• Provides leadership and oversight for a direct/indirect report span of 60–99 team members, including 60–99 indirect FTEs.

Working Conditions:

Bending -Occasionally

Climbing - Occasionally

Concentrating - Consistently

Continuous Learning - Consistently

Hearing: Conversation - Frequently

Hearing: Other Sounds -Frequently

Interpersonal Communication - Consistently

Kneeling - Occasionally

Lifting <10 Lbs. - Frequently

Lifting 50+ Lbs. - Frequently

Lifting <50 Lbs. - Occasionally

Pulling - Rarely

Pushing - Rarely

Reaching - Rarely

Reading - Consistently

Sitting - Consistently

Standing - Frequently

Stooping - Occasionally

Talking -Frequently

Thinking/Reasoning - Consistently

Use of Hands - Frequently

Color Vision - Occasionally

Visual Acuity: Far -Occasionally

Visual Acuity: Near -Occasionally

Walking - Frequently

Leadership Performance Standards

TriHealth leaders create a culture of engagement, safety & reliability and high performance by consistently modeling and utilizing the following TriHealth Way leadership competencies, tactics and ALWAYS Behaviors to drive strategic pillar results:

Achievement of Annual Pillar Goals:

1) Safety/Quality, 2) Service, 3) Growth, 4) Culture/People, 5) Finance

Leadership Competencies:

• TriHealth Way of Leading
• TriHealth Way of Serving
• Transformation Change
• Drive for Results
• Build Organizational Talent

Leadership Tactics:

• Conduct department huddles. Generally, clinical departments hold daily huddles, non-clinical hold weekly huddles.
• Regularly Round on Team Members, using questions from the rounding log.
  • 25 or fewer team members = monthly
  • 26-50 team members = every other month
  • 51+ (and optional team members) = quarterly
• Lead monthly team meetings using meeting agenda template; review stoplight report; cascade key leadership messages.
• Model, coach and validate team members use of TriHealth Way behaviors (AIDET + Promise, Always Behaviors and Always HEARD).
• Recognize team members for safety wins, positive performance and demonstrating SERVE and ALWAYS behaviors, TriHealth Way of Leading, Serving and Delivering Care.

Job Keywords:

Registered Nurse, Assistant Nurse Manager, Charge RN, Nursing, Hospital, Acute Care, Inpatient Care, Supervisor, Leadership, Psychology, Psych, Behavioral Health