Inpatient Nurse Manager - RN

Centerstone is among the nation’s leading nonprofit behavioral health systems with thousands of employees dedicated to delivering care that changes people’s lives. A dynamic, well-established organization, we offer rewarding opportunities to serve all ages in a variety of settings. Come talk to us about joining the Centerstone team!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Summary

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 timeframes.
• 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 treatment services. Telehealth participation may be required based on program needs.

Supervisory Requirements:

• Communicate the strategic direction of the organization and encourage participation by all team members.
• Provide leadership and guidance to all aspects of the department.
• Take an active role in monitoring the identification, development, and execution of strategic objectives.
• Involve, as appropriate, all team members to achieve goals.
• Effectively communicate to team members any changes and newsworthy events within the department or company.
• Handle difficult team member situations directly, using appropriate discretion and Human Resource advice to show respect for the individual
• Champion change and effectively manage the implementation of new ideas.
• Reinforces team approach throughout functions; support and solicit input from team members at all levels within the company.
   

Employment Requirements:

• Successful completion of background check including criminal record, driving record, abuse/neglect and fingerprint check.
• Completion of New Hire Orientation at the beginning of employment.
• All training requirements including Relias at the beginning of employment and annually thereafter.
• Annual maintenance of licenses, and certifications. 
• Completion and maintenance of required training, competencies, licensure, certifications, and continuing education in accordance with Florida requirements, accreditation standards, and organizational policy.

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Delivering care that changes people's lives starts with our employees. Below are just some of the great benefits Centerstone employees enjoy:

• Medical, dental, and vision health coverage

• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts

• 403b retirement plan with company match

• Paid time off and ten paid holidays

• AD&D Insurance, Life Insurance, and Long Term Disability (company paid)

• Employee Resource Groups

• Continuing education opportunities

• Employee Assistance Program

Centerstone is an equal opportunity employer. Employment at Centerstone is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We treat all clients and colleagues with dignity and respect.

At Centerstone, we use our values as a guide for what we do. Respect, Expertise, Integrity and Empowerment are at the heart of every interaction at Centerstone, and particularly rooted in our Culture.

Our approach to culture is to create an environment that encourages, supports and celebrates the voices and experiences of our employees. We are committed to a culture of empowerment, respect, integrity and expertise that powers our innovation and connects us to each other, our clients and the communities we serve.

Centerstone is also committed to a strong culture of quality and safety, celebrating role-models who champion best practices for quality, clinical risk, and patient safety.