Asst Nurse Manager, Behavioral Health

As Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM), Behavioral Health at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, you’ll help lead a compassionate, patient-centered team dedicated to supporting individuals across the lifespan through acute behavioral health and substance use treatment services. This role offers the opportunity to support a diverse inpatient Behavioral Health program that includes Geriatric, General Adult Intensive Management, Child & Adolescent, and Dual Diagnosis populations.

In this role, you’ll provide both clinical and administrative leadership at the unit level, supporting team members through mentorship, staffing coordination, performance management, and daily operational oversight while helping ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality therapeutic care.

You’ll join a supportive and collaborative interdisciplinary team that values patient safety, teamwork, and compassionate care during some of patients’ most vulnerable moments. With a 7:1 patient-to-RN ratio, this leader plays an important role in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment, supporting crisis intervention and de-escalation efforts, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving quality patient outcomes and team engagement.

As a visible and approachable leader, you’ll help foster a culture centered around accountability, teamwork, and therapeutic excellence while supporting patients experiencing mental health conditions, substance use disorders, life stressors, and stress-related physical symptoms.

This is an ideal opportunity for a strong nurse leader with Behavioral Health or acute inpatient psychiatric experience who is passionate about mentorship, team development, crisis intervention, and making a meaningful impact within a mission-driven Behavioral Health service line.

This position may be eligible for relocation. 

• Education: 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, required. BSN, preferred. Graduate Degree, preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of two years of clinical RN experience, preferred. Prior demonstrated nursing leadership, preferred.
• Licensure/Certification: Current RN licensure in appropriate state, required. NC state approved curricula for restrictive interventions (facility specific) within 3 months of hire for Emergency Departments and Behavioral Health units, required. Unit/Dept Specific Required Certifications.
• Additional Skills (required): Successful completion of generic and department-specific skills validation and competency testing. Ability to successfully complete Leader Education & Training.