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Roxborough Memorial Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Director - Behavioral Health

Registered NurseFull-Time

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Job Description

Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community! Roxborough Memorial Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference.

Roxborough Memorial Hospital is a 131-bed community hospital. The hospital has been serving the medical and health care needs of the Roxborough, Manayunk, East Falls and northwest section of Philadelphia communities for more than a century, having first opened its doors in 1890.

Roxborough Memorial Hospitals School of Nursing has been educating nurses since 1898. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation's oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.

Responsibilities

The Director of Behavioral Health is a Registered Nurse who assumes 24 hour administrative responsibility for the management of all Behavioral Health Program functions. Supervises, assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the delivery of patient care.

Develops and implements programmatic plans, including performance improvement activities and compliance with current regulations.

Supervises and evaluates all personnel assigned to the Behavioral Health program(s) and effectively utilizes employee resources, time responsibilities for the unit and is directly accountable to the CNO/Administrator/CEO. Communicates with staff, physicians and administration both written and verbally.

Develops and administers comprehensive Behavioral Health Programing that responds to the patient demographic needs and support the organization’s overall mission, philosophy, and goals.

Integrates the Behavioral Health Services’ into the continuum of care, as appropriate to the facility needs; provides leadership, direction and clinical supervision in accordance with the organizational and departmental goals and objectives.

Qualifications

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING 1. Must have a current and valid Registered Nurse Licensure. 2. Director of psychiatric services has a master's degree (preferred) in psychiatric or mental health nursing 3.

Must have a minimum of have a Bachelor’s degree, with at least 2 years’ experience in psychiatric nursing providing care to the mentally ill, or be qualified by education and experience in the care of the mentally ill, in accordance with local and state regulatory requirements. 4.

Must have minimum of two (2) years management experience with Behavioral Health Care programs. 5. Must have BCLS (AHA) certificate upon hire and maintain current. 6. Behavioral Violence Prevention within 6 months of hire and maintain current annually. 7.

Must have working knowledge of mental health laws and practice standards. 8. Must have knowledge of the continuum of care for behavioral health treatment. 9. Must have excellent verbal, written, and management skills.

Employment Status: Full Time

Shift: Days

Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: eeoc.gov

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Behavioral Health Program ManagementStaff SupervisionProgram DevelopmentRegulatory ComplianceBehavioral Health Treatment ContinuumWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationResource Management

Psychiatry — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 28% are remote, 42% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is down 11.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
92%
Sign-on bonus
13%
Loan repayment
4%
PSLF eligible
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Psychiatry (RN) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 70 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Philadelphia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$204k
Typical market rent
$1,768/mo
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Roxborough Memorial Hospital

Hospitals and Health Care
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
201-500 employees