Travel Nurse Manager RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit

Company: Bestica
Location: Great Falls
Posted on: March 20, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Bestica is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit Manager for a travel nursing job in Billings, Montana. Job Description & Requirements - Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit - Discipline: RN - Start Date: 04/20/2026 - Duration: 13 weeks - 40 hours per week - Shift: 8 hours, days - Employment Type: Travel 37054396 Duties: Job Summary: This job description applies to Nurse Manager and Nurse Manager-Complex. The difference is the scope level below. This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments. Collaborating with nursing leaders and other facility managers and departments, the nurse manager is key in ensuring excellent patient care, achieving financial objectives, and fostering leadership development. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 50% Tactical (day-to-day activities like staffing and equipment availability), 40% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 10% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals). Scope: Level 1 Nurse Manager: -Manages 50 headcount or more than 2 departments and manages a department operating 24/7. Job Responsibilities: -This role encompasses a range of responsibilities that report to a Nurse Director. -The responsibilities include overseeing the clinical nursing environment, contributing to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, and standards of care. -The role involves facilitating collaborative problem-solving, advocating for resources, promoting shared decision-making, and implementing the organization's vision and values. -Additionally, the responsibilities encompass managing budgets, ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification. -Champions the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards. -Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level. -Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit. -Uses resources effectively and manages expenses to meet financial goals of department. -Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit. -Ensures competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction. -As delegated, ensures that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities. -Evaluates staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews. -Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit specific accrediting and certifying bodies. -Facilitates use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles. -Serves as an exemplary figure for employees, promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections within all facets of providing patient care. -Monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes. -Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals. -Supports the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses. -Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations. Skills: Required Skills & Experience: -Two (2) years of clinical experience. -Leadership/supervisory experience. -Leadership -Communication -Problem-solving -Financial acumen -Clinical knowledge -Resource management -Patient safety -Mentorship -Community outreach Preferred Skills & Experience: -Demonstrated experience in the area of oversight. Education: Required Education: -Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified). Required Certifications & Licensure: -Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers. Preferred Certifications & Licensure: -Specialty Certification. Facility Credentialing Managed by Client: -Must complete Intermountain Health’s required leadership training and development courses within one year of accepting this leadership position. -Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. -Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment. 37054396 /n/nDuties:/n/nJob Summary:/nThis job description applies to Nurse Manager and Nurse Manager-Complex. The difference is the scope level below. This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments. Collaborating with nursing leaders and other facility managers and departments, the nurse manager is key in ensuring excellent patient care, achieving financial objectives, and fostering leadership development. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 50% Tactical (day-to-day activities like staffing and equipment availability), 40% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 10% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals)./n/nScope:/nLevel 1 Nurse Manager:/n-Manages 50 headcount or more than 2 departments and manages a department operating 24/7./n/nJob Responsibilities:/n-This role encompasses a range of responsibilities that report to a Nurse Director./n-The responsibilities include overseeing the clinical nursing environment, contributing to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, and standards of care./n-The role involves facilitating collaborative problem-solving, advocating for resources, promoting shared decision-making, and implementing the organization's vision and values./n-Additionally, the responsibilities encompass managing budgets, ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification./n-Champions the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards./n-Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level./n-Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit./n-Uses resources effectively and manages expenses to meet financial goals of department./n-Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit./n-Ensures competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction./n-As delegated, ensures that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities./n-Evaluates staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews./n-Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit specific accrediting and certifying bodies./n-Facilitates use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles./n-Serves as an exemplary figure for employees, promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections within all facets of providing patient care./n-Monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes./n-Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals./n-Supports the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses./n-Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations./n/nSkills:/n/nRequired Skills & Experience:/n-Two (2) years of clinical experience./n-Leadership/supervisory experience./n-Leadership/n-Communication/n-Problem-solving/n-Financial acumen/n-Clinical knowledge/n-Resource management/n-Patient safety/n-Mentorship/n-Community outreach/n/nPreferred Skills & Experience:/n-Demonstrated experience in the area of oversight./n/nEducation:/n/nRequired Education:/n-Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified)./n/nRequired Certifications & Licensure:/n-Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers./n/nPreferred Certifications & Licensure:/n-Specialty Certification./n/nFacility Credentialing Managed by Client:/n-Must complete Intermountain Health’s required leadership training and development courses within one year of accepting this leadership position./n-Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice./n-Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment./n/n/n/n About Bestica We are a trusted provider of solutions in Information Technology and Healthcare sectors to the DoD, Federal and Commercial markets. Our guiding principle and core values help us care for our people and the community; and build a culture of excellence which in turn helps us achieve our organizational objective of exceeding customer’s expectations in each and every project. Headquartered in San Antonio, TX, we were founded in 2005 and are certified as an 8(a) Business. Benefits - Referral bonus

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