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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
