Clinical Nurse Manager

Position: CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER
Job

Requisition

Opening Date: 12/26/2025

Closing Date: 01/09/2026

Agency:
Department of Human Services

Class

Title:

PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015

Skill Option:
Special License - Registered Nurse License

Bilingual Option:
None

Salary:
Anticipated Salary: $9,785 - $11,253 per month ($117,420 - $135,036 per year)

Job Type: Salaried

Category:
Full Time

County:
Madison

Number of Vacancies : 1

Bargaining Unit Code:
None

Merit Comp Code:
Gubernatorial (Management Bill) Exclusion from RC063 Collective Bargaining Coverage

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Position Overview

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is pleased to announce an opening for a Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM) for the Forensic Unit A, day shift at Alton Mental Health Center located in Alton, Illinois. The Alton Mental Health Center is seeking to hire an energetic and detail-oriented licensed Registered Nurse to direct and oversee para-professional and non-professional nursing personnel, assuring that general health and nursing care needs are met for our patients.

Alton Mental Health Center strives to provide equitable access to social/human services, supports, programs and resources to enhance the lives of all who we serve.

Essential Functions

* Serves as Clinical Nurse Manager for the Forensic Units AFC-A for the day shift.

* Serves as full-line supervisor.

* Provides recommendations to the DON in the development of policies and procedures.

* Evaluates patient services by conducting ongoing audits (e.g. performance improvement) of services provided in adherence to established goals and standards.

* Provides professional nursing services to patients including new admissions, administering medications, giving shots, taking medical histories, etc.

* Develops a plan to implement alternatives to restraint/seclusion which outlines the roles and responsibilities of program staff.

* Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

* Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse by the State of Illinois.

* Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in nursing.

* Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

* Three (3) years of professional experience supervising professional nursing staff.

* Three (3) years of professional experience meeting deadlines with strong attention to detail and the ability to utilize critical thinking skills while multi-tasking multiple projects.

* Two (2) years of professional nursing experience working with individuals with mental illness and recommending or preparing treatment plans for patients and developing and implementing nursing policies and procedures following evidenced-based practice and nursing standards.

* Three (3) years of professional experience communicating with internal and external stakeholders in oral or written form relative to the care and treatment of patients.

* Two (2) years of professional experience recommending and implementing disciplinary actions following collective bargaining agreements.

Conditions of Employment

* Requires the ability to physically restrain patients as medically or psychiatrically necessary to prevent injury to patient or others.

* Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.

* Requires the ability…