Assistant Director Of Nursing Services 1 Psychiatric
New Jersey Department of Health
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Job overview
This position typically manages an organizational unit and oversees in-service training, quality assurance, accreditation compliance, and overall program operations. It investigates complaints, analyzes statistical data, advises health care providers or facilities on compliance with service-delivery standards, confers with other professionals, and provides technical advice to staff, peers, or management.
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Full job description
A position in this job category typically functions as a manager of an organizational unit; plans in-service training; administers a quality assurance program and a compliance program for accreditation; evaluates the overall operation of the program or service; investigates complaints; analyzes statistical data; advises health care providers or facilities of methods of compliance with standards regarding delivery of services; confers with other professionals; provides technical advice to staff, peers, or management.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
EDUCATION
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelors degree in Nursing.
EXPERIENCE
Six (6) years of experience as a Registered Nurse. Three (3) years of the required experience shall be in a first in-line supervisory capacity involving the care and treatment of psychiatric,
geriatric, or developmentally disabled patients.
NOTE: Applicants who do not possess the Bachelors degree in Nursing must possess one (1) additional year of non supervisory experience.
LICENSES. CERTIFICATIONS OR REGISTRATIONS
Appointee will be required to possess a current professional license as a Registered Nurse valid in the State of New Jersey.
SUBSTITUTION
A Master's degree in Mental Health/Psychiatric Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing Administration, or Health Services Administration may be substituted for one (1) year of the required non-supervisory experience.
LICENSE:
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
How this job compares
Set against the 568 open Nursing Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$97–133K/yr217 salary ranges
- US median$46–70/hr117 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Nursing Management jobs in New Jersey and 568 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Nursing Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 430 postings).
- Education
- 226 of the 568 open Nursing Management jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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