San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Inpatient psychiatric care and addiction treatment

Registered Nurse

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSan Antonio, TX, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school for a Registered Nurse program.
Hold a current unrestricted Texas Registered Nurse license.
Behavioral health, hospital, or nursing home work experience is preferred; 2+ years is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide clinical oversight to nursing personnel providing nursing services to patients receiving treatment or appropriate referrals from other clinics.
Administer medication and medical treatment in accordance with policies and physicians’ orders.
Provide psychiatric nursing interventions and treatment education, with interventions appropriate to each patient’s treatment needs.
Coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges, and ensure nursing documentation is completed in a timely manner.
Supervise special treatment interventions, including de-escalation, physical restraint, and seclusion.
Provide leadership and supervision to direct-care staff, delegate responsibilities, make shift assignments, and monitor performance.
Provide supervision and quality-assurance checks to ensure patient supervision, environmental safety, therapeutic structure, facilitation of patient groups and activities of daily living, and quality patient care by direct-care workers.
Document patient behavior, medication administration, medical interventions, treatment planning, and treatment interventions accurately and thoroughly in accordance with professional standards.
Assess patients’ physical and emotional status and apply psychiatric nursing skills, seclusion and restraint protocols, national patient safety standards, age-specific competencies, pain management, and standards established by the Texas Board of Nursing.
Communicate patient behavior, status, and treatment needs accurately to patients, families, professionals, and facility employees, verbally and in writing; adapt spoken communication to patients’ needs.
Facilitate medication-education groups and train or assist with activities of daily living.
Train staff and oversee vital-sign checks.
Safely de-escalate and manage aggressive patients, and oversee seclusion and physical restraint in accordance with policy.
Handle multiple projects under deadlines and on short notice.
Maintain professional therapeutic relationships with staff, patients, families, and visitors, and maintain patient confidentiality.

Desired Qualifications

2+ years of work experience in a behavioral health setting, hospital, or nursing home.

Registered Nurse Nights with 10K Bonus

San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital · San Antonio, United States · Full-time · Posted 2025-04-25

Workplace: on_site

Department: Nursing

Description

Duties include:

Provides clinical oversight to nursing personnel providing nursing services to all patients coming for treatment and/or appropriate referral from other clinics.
Administer medication and medical treatment in accordance with policies and physician’s orders.
Provides psychiatric nursing interventions and treatment education, provides intervention appropriate to the specific treatment needs of the patient.
Coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges, and assure that relevant nursing documentation is completed in a timely manner.
Supervises special treatment interventions such as de-escalation, physical restraint, seclusion.
Able to provide leadership and supervision of direct care staff, delegate responsibilities, make shift assignments, and monitor performance.
Provides supervision and quality assurance checks to assure patient supervision, environmental safety, therapeutic structure, facilitation of patient groups and activities of daily living, and delivery of quality patient care by direct care workers.
Provide timely, accurate, and thorough documentation of patient behavior, medication administration, medical interventions, treatment planning, and treatment interventions. Documentation reflects professional standards.
Knowledge of psychiatric nursing skills, ability to assess patient physical and emotional status. Knowledge of seclusion and restraint protocols, national patient safety standards, age-specific competencies, pain management, and standards established by the Texas Board of Nursing.
Accurately conveys patient behavior and status verbally and in writing. Professional verbal and written skills for communicating patient status, and treatment needs to clients, families, professionals, and employees of the facility. Able to verbally adapt spoken communication to meet the needs of patients.
Proficiency in facilitating medication education groups, and training/assisting ADLs. Proficiency with training and oversight of vital signs checks.
Able to safely de-escalate and manage aggressive patients, to oversee seclusion and physical restraint of patients per policy. Able to handle multiple projects under deadlines with short notice.
Maintains professional therapeutic relationships with staff, patients, families, and visitors. Able to maintain patient confidentiality.

Requirements

Education/Training:

Graduate of an accredited school for Registered Nurse program.

Licensure/Certification:

Current unrestricted Texas Registered Nurse licensure.

Experience:

Prefer 2+ years work experience in a behavioral health setting, hospital, nursing home.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
401K Retirement Plan
Healthcare Spending Account
Dependent Care Spending Account
PTO Plan with Holiday Premium Pay
Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-up opportunities)

Apply

Apply at San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

About the Company

San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Inpatient psychiatric care and addiction treatment

SABHH offers inpatient psychiatric care and substance-use treatment at a 198-bed facility in Northwest San Antonio and is part of Universal Health Services. It provides a continuum of care, including inpatient hospitalization, Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), using trauma-informed, evidence-based therapies such as CBT, DBT, and specialized PTSD treatments like Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy. The hospital also provides medication management, group and individual therapy, holistic activities, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), and a specialty Victory Program for active-duty service members and veterans in line with DoD/VA guidelines. It accepts insurance—including TRICARE—and aims to deliver comprehensive, individualized mental health and substance-use treatment across care levels.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: San Antonio, TX
Founded: 2014

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

See more jobs