CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER
Posted: May 05, 2025
Company: Illinois Department of Human Services
Employer Type: Government
Position Type: Full Time
Job Type: Nursing
Experience Level: Mid Level
Certification Required: B.A
Education Required: Bachelors
City: ALTON
County: MADISON
Salary Range: $75000 and Up
Posting Identification Number 45334
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Position Overview
The Division of Mental Health is pleased to announce an opening for a Clinical Nurse Manger (CNM) for the Alton Mental Health Center located in Alton, Illinois. The Alton 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, assuring that general health, and nursing care needs are met for our patients. Alton 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 for the Locust Civil Unit.
- Serves as full-line supervisor.
- Provides recommendations to the DON in the development of policies and procedures.
- Evaluates patient services by conducting ongoing audits (e.g. performance improvement) of services provided in adherence to established goals and standards.
- Provides professional nursing services to patients including new admissions, administering medications, giving shots, taking medical histories, etc.
- Develops a plan to implement alternatives to restraint/seclusion which outlines the roles and responsibilities of program staff.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Desired Skills
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse by 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 experience meeting deadlines with strong attention to detail and the ability to utilize critical thinking skills while multi-tasking multiple projects.
- Two (2) years of professional nursing experience working with individuals with mental illness.
- Two (2) years of professional experience recommending or 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
- Two (2) years of professional experience recommending and implementing disciplinary actions following collective bargaining agreements.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires the ability to physically restrain patients as necessary to prevent injury to patients or others.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
- Requires the ability to serve on-call after business hours, weekends and holidays on a rotation basis.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
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