Clinical Nurse Manager

at DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DHS in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Opening Date: 08/12/2026
Closing Date: 08/25/2026
​Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015 .
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $10,127 - $11,647 per month ($121,524 - $139,764 per year)
Category: Full Time 
County: Sangamon
Number of Vacancies: 2
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

To be considered, applicants must apply through our official website: https://illinois.jobs2web.com/job-invite/57883/

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Position Overview

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 detailed-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 individual’s 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.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.