Supervisor Behavioral Health Nursing

CommonSpirit Health; Council Bluffs (IA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs is seeking a Supervisor Behavioral Nursing to lead staffing and performance across the unit, ensuring compassionate, high-quality care for patients. You will collaborate within an interdisciplinary team to support patient recovery and staff development.

The role emphasizes critical thinking, urgency, and a patient-first mindset, with responsibilities spanning staffing, performance management, safety initiatives, and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced hospital

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in nursing upon hire and minimum of 1-3 years leadership experience.
• Registered Nurse: IA license required.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification.

Responsibilities

• Allocates and directs staffing to meet patient and unit needs.
• Manages performance: goals, feedback, development and corrective action.
• Monitors patient engagement, safety and quality initiatives across departments.
• Coordinates operating systems, standards and communication per policies.
• Ensures resource utilization aligns with budgets and objectives.
• Maintains compliance with Joint Commission and other regulations.

Skills

Leadership

Staffing management

Performance feedback

Patient safety

Regulatory knowledge

Education

BSN (RN)

IA RN License

Job description

*Job Summary and Responsibilities*

As a Supervisor Behavioral Nursing you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will oversee the functional and technical job performance or team members. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Allocates and directs staffing needs to meet patient, unit and Hospital needs, and collaborates with others to ensure overall staffing needs are met.
• Manages performance including: goal-setting, clarifying job expectations, monitoring performance progress, providing feedback, recognize, developing skills and addressing performance issues related to work and our commitments using corrective action.
• Monitors and oversee customer and patient engagement, growth, quality initiatives and patient safety for multiple departments, utilizing regulatory and organization knowledge and policy for multiple areas as separate functions.
• Coordinates and manages operating systems, operational standardization, service standards and communication methods in line with system policies and processes.
• Ensures optimal utilization of department resources within guidelines set forth through capital and operation budget planning, implementation of practices that achieve defined objectives, and benchmark data.
• Assures appropriate level of understanding, awareness and compliance with all applicable Joint Commission, federal, state and agency laws, regulations, guidelines and professional standards.

*Job Requirements*

• Bachelors degree in nursing upon hire and minimum of 1-3 years leadership experience
• Registered Nurse: IA
• Basic Life Support - CPR

Where You'll Work At CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs, patients are at the heart of our care. Our campus is designed to heal the body, mind and spirit of every person in a more comfortable, less stressful hospital environment. Our full range of medical services include a new pavilion featuring enhancements in heart and vascular care, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging.

*Pay Range*

$38.78 - $56.24 /hour