Inpatient Nurse Manager - RN

RN Inpatient Nurse Manager

The RN Inpatient Nurse Manager provides clinical and operational leadership for nursing services within a Florida behavioral health hospital and addiction treatment center. This position supervises Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Behavioral Health Technicians, and other assigned staff while overseeing safe, effective, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented care for individuals receiving inpatient psychiatric, crisis stabilization, detoxification, and substance use disorder treatment services.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide day-to-day leadership and clinical oversight for inpatient nursing operations, including psychiatric, crisis stabilization, detoxification, and addiction recovery services.
• Supervise, coach, and support RNs, LPNs, Behavioral Health Technicians, and other assigned team members to ensure safe staffing, effective patient care, and compliance with hospital policies.
• Ensure timely nursing assessment, triage, care planning, medication administration, withdrawal monitoring, vital sign review, and response to changes in patient condition.
• Coordinate with physicians, advanced practice providers, clinical leaders, and interdisciplinary treatment teams to support individualized, medically appropriate, and clinically integrated care.
• Respond to medical and behavioral health emergencies, including withdrawal complications, medication reactions, accidental injuries, psychiatric escalation, and other urgent patient care needs.
• Promote a safe, therapeutic, trauma-informed environment that supports patient dignity, de-escalation, infection prevention, suicide risk mitigation, and recovery-focused care.
• Monitor medication practices, medication occurrences, documentation accuracy, and corrective action processes in accordance with applicable Florida nursing standards, accreditation requirements, and organizational policy.
• Develop and maintain staff schedules, daily assignments, and coverage plans to support patient acuity, census needs, regulatory expectations, and budgetary guidelines, including appropriate management of overtime.
• Participate in recruitment, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, competency validation, coaching, performance management, and retention efforts for nursing and behavioral health support staff.
• Ensure staff complete required orientation, annual competencies, continuing education, crisis prevention training, and other assigned learning within required time frames.
• Complete all evaluations and required status notices in a timely manner.
• Facilitate staff meetings, huddles, education sessions, and communication forums to promote accountability, teamwork, patient safety, and consistent practice across shifts.
• Support compliance with applicable Florida regulations, accreditation standards, infection prevention expectations, patient rights requirements, and organizational policies governing inpatient behavioral health and addiction treatment services.
• Participate in treatment team meetings, quality reviews, incident reviews, root cause analyses, and performance improvement initiatives related to safety, documentation, patient outcomes, and staff practice.
• Demonstrates interest in long term and short-term goals and objectives of the company.

Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Nursing, Hospital Administrator, Program Director, Vice President, or other executive leadership.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Thorough knowledge of principles, theories, and practices of nursing related to mental health and/or substance abuse services.
• Detailed knowledge of information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and provide alternative treatments.
• Skilled in effective entering, transcribing, recording, and storing information in written or electronic form.
• Ability to plan, supervise and evaluate the work of direct reports.
• Aptitude to evaluate services within assigned program and give input.
• Capable of communicating ideas clearly and effectively verbally and in writing to produce clear and concise reports.
• Effectively apply techniques of a complex nature to make a decision or solve a problem by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions.

Experience and Education

Qualifications:

• Current Registered Nurse license in the State of Florida, or eligibility to obtain Florida RN licensure prior to employment.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred. Minimum of four (4) years of professional nursing experience required, with experience in inpatient behavioral health, psychiatric, crisis stabilization, detoxification, substance use disorder treatment, or addiction recovery services strongly preferred.
• Minimum of two (2) years of supervisory, charge nurse, nurse manager, or comparable nursing leadership experience required.

Applicant must maintain active Florida RN licensure and meet all organizational, regulatory, and continuing education requirements applicable to inpatient behavioral health and addiction…