Travel RN role focused on inpatient geriatric behavioral health (locked geropsychiatry unit) on nights in Manchester, NH, through Care Career, a healthcare staffing firm. You’ll provide high-acuity psych and hands-on nursing care on a 13-week contract with guaranteed 36 hours/week. Standout perk: weekly pay plus referral bonus and benefits.
- Weekly pay
- Referral bonus available
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Behavioral Health for a travel nursing job in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Behavioral Health
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 05/26/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Registered Nurse – Behavioral Health (Geropsychiatry) - Manchester, NH
Job Details:
- Shift: Night 3x12s (7:00 PM – 7:30 AM)
- Schedule: Every other weekend required
- Contract length: 13 weeks
- Guaranteed hours: 36 per week
- Unit: Geropsychiatry (locked inpatient unit)
Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of RN experience (required)
- Must have Geriatric Psych inpatient experience (HARD STOP)
- Must have Medical-Surgical (MS) experience (HARD STOP)
- No first-time travelers accepted
- Active RN license (NH license or compact eligible)
- BLS and CPI required
- Epic experience required
Skills Required:
- Geriatric psychiatric patient care in locked inpatient setting
- Dementia, bipolar, depression, anxiety, psychosis care
- Medication administration and monitoring
- Foley catheter insertion and management
- Wound care and dressing changes
- IV fluids and basic IV therapy
- Mobility assistance and lift equipment use
- Incontinence care and behavioral support
- 1:1 observation and safety monitoring
- De-escalation and behavioral management techniques
Facility Details:
- 25-bed geriatric psych unit within a locked inpatient behavioral health setting
- Patient ratio: 1:6 nights
- Patients include dementia with behavioral disturbances and acute psychiatric conditions
- Split unit: psychiatric and behavioral care sections
- Epic charting system used
- Lift equipment and IV therapy training provided
Additional Notes:
- Floating required to adult behavioral health units as needed
- Must be comfortable with high-acuity, hands-on patient care
- Strict compliance: no former employees of SolutionHealth accepted
- COVID vaccine not required; flu vaccine required with exemptions allowed
Quick Offers.
Referral Bonus Available.
About Care Career
Care Career brings together a portfolio of leading healthcare staffing organizations, each delivering specialized talent solutions across the industry. Wherever you want to go, We Make It Happen.
With travel nursing jobs across the country, you can discover the possibilities that create the lifestyle and financial position that you have dreamed of.
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Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits