CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER

Clinical Nurse Manager

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is pleased to announce an opening for a Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM) for the Elizabeth Packard Mental Center. The Elizabeth Packard 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 in a 24/7 operational facility, assuring that general health and nursing care needs are met for our patients. Elizabeth Packard 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 on an assigned shift ensuring supervision provided to direct care staff at a 24/7 mental health facility.
• Serves as full line supervisor.
• Serves as an active member of Interdisciplinary Treatment Team.
• Monitors staff activities.
• Assists in providing training for hospital staff, orients, and trains new or reassigned staff.
• Provides professional assistance to direct care staff caring for patients.
• As a member of the unit administrative group, develops, implements, and evaluates the unit timekeeping practices as they pertain to direct care staff.
• Actively participates in nursing department administrative/hospital meetings.
• Attends seminars and training programs to remain current on professional nursing policy, practices, and procedures.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires licensure as a registered nurse in 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 nursing experience working with individuals with mental illnesses.
• Three (3) years of professional experience recommending and preparing treatment plans for patients.
• 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.
• Three (3) years of professional experience recommending and implementing nursing policies and procedures following evidence-based practice and nursing standards.
• Three (3) years of professional experience recommending and implementing disciplinary actions following collective bargaining agreements.

Conditions of Employment:

• Requires the ability to work after hours, weekends and holidays.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
• Requires the ability to successfully complete Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training.
• Requires the ability to physically restrain patients as necessary to prevent injury to patient or others.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

Work Hours: various shifts, see below:

• 4pm-12am Week 1 - Off Tuesday and Saturday, Week 2 - Off Sunday and Friday;
• 12am-8am Week 1 - Off Sunday and Friday, Week 2 – Off Tuesday and Saturday

Headquarter Location: 901 E Southwind Rd, Springfield, Illinois, 62703 Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center Lincoln Hall – South Work County: Sangamon

About the Agency:

The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois. Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives. Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois. Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.

As a State of Illinois Employee, you will receive a robust benefit package that includes the following:

• A Pension Program
• Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
• 12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
• 10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
• Personal, Sick, & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour & part-time work schedules (as applicable)
• 13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
• Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
• 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
• Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP), Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP)
• Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
• GI Bill® Training/Apprenticeship Benefits eligibility for qualifying Veterans
• 5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
• Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)