RN Manager Nurse

Acadia•Malden, MA

7d•$100,000 - $130,000•Onsite

About The Position

Tufts Medicine Behavioral Health Hospital, a 144-bed facility in Malden, Massachusetts, formed through a partnership between Tufts Medicine and Acadia Healthcare, is hiring an RN Nurse Manager. The hospital is slated to open in fall 2025. Pay is $100,000–$130,000, depending on experience. The RN Nurse Manager assists the DON/CNO in directing, planning, coordinating, monitoring, and supervising nursing operations for assigned units. The role oversees behavioral health and nursing services with a positive, empathetic, and professional approach. In collaboration with interdisciplinary treatment teams, other departments, and administration, the manager works to meet patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs, and addresses customer complaints. The manager provides leadership to support compliance with applicable regulations and nursing practice standards, with patient safety as a priority. The position manages nursing resources according to census and patient acuity, oversees staff and care coordination, serves as a clinical resource, and is accountable for the facility’s standard of care. Duties also include recruitment, hiring, staff training and education, policy and procedure implementation, reporting on programs and quality initiatives, budget planning and expenditure authorization, and providing direct care as needed.

Requirements

Current registered nursing license as required by the state of the facility.
At least two years of registered nursing experience.
At least one year of experience with the facility’s patient population.
At least one year of charge RN or other administrative experience.
CPR certification and de-escalation/restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.

Nice To Haves

BSN or higher strongly preferred.
Three years as a registered nurse strongly preferred.
Two years of prior registered nursing experience with the facility’s patient population preferred.
Prior experience as a house supervisor strongly preferred.
First aid may be required based on state or facility.

Responsibilities

Assist the DON/CNO with directing, planning, coordinating, monitoring, and supervising nursing operations for assigned units.
Oversee behavioral health and nursing services and help ensure patient physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs are met.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary treatment teams, other departments, and administration; acknowledge and work to resolve customer complaints.
Provide leadership to support compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and nursing practice standards.
Anticipate and manage changes in census and acuity and allocate nursing resources based on patient acuity and care needs.
Model customer-service expectations and urgency regarding patient safety.
Be accountable for the facility’s standard of care and provide consultations and expertise in care delivery.
Serve as a clinical and service resource to nursing and other staff as assigned.
Manage staff activities and coordinate safe, appropriate care among departments and disciplines.
Manage and evaluate nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other facility staff as directed.
Analyze situations and information to select solutions to problems.
Recruit, hire, and train new staff.
Identify others’ educational needs and develop educational or training programs.
Assist with developing and implementing facility policies and procedures.
Prepare reports on the status and implementation of unit programs, services, and quality initiatives.
Perform administrative and managerial functions, including budget planning and authorizing expenditures.
Provide direct care as needed.
Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.