Nurse (RN) Manager - Adult Behavioral Health

The Pavilion Behavioral Health System

Champaign, Illinois

Your unit is Behavioral Health.

Eligibility: Psychiatric

Posted Jul 30

License: RN license
Term: Permanent

What it pays

Against similar roles: Top of Illinois staff payIllinois staff postings that state pay run $68k/yr to $106k/yr, the middle half $77k/yr to $99k/yr, across 1,652 postings.

Benefits

401(k)
401(k) matching
AD&D insurance
Dental insurance
Dependent health insurance coverage
Disability insurance

More benefits (17)

Employee assistance program
Free parking
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Pet insurance
Professional development assistance
Vision insurance
Continuing education credits
Opportunities for advancement
Tuition reimbursement
Tuition savings with Chamberlain University
Psychiatric Nurse Residency Transition-to-Practice Orientation
SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
Comprehensive training & orientation
Career development opportunities within UHS

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The Pavilion Behavioral Health System

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The Pavilion Behavioral Health System has been a leading provider of behavioral health treatment in Champaign, Illinois, since 1989. The facility provides psychiatric care for children, adolescents, and adults, offering therapeutic programming that includes individual, group, and family therapy, activity…

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Nurse Manager Opportunity - Inpatient Adult Behavioral Health. The Pavilion Behavioral Health System includes a 110 bed inpatient hospital, a residential treatment center for youth and a residential addictions treatment program. The Nurse Manager assumes the responsibility of overseeing and coordinating the total assessment, planning, implementation of patient care, ensuring that quality services are rendered to patients in accordance with the State of Illinois' Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, Medicare, etc., and sets standards for the adult unit.

In conjunction with the Director of Nursing, ensures maintenance of appropriate staffing on the adult unit with respect to census and acuity levels.

What's around it?

In Champaign, IL

Champaign, ILFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 7% below the US average

Median rent: $1,123/mo
Household income: $56,118/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Champaign, IL

NeighborhoodsRelocating healthcare workers typically choose between established historic blocks and newer suburban-style enclaves. Stone Creek in southeast Champaign is built around Stone Creek Golf Club, offering early-2000s and newer homes with open layouts, finished basements, and an easy drive to Carle Hospital and the university campus. Those seeking historic character often gravitate toward West Urbana between Race Street and Lincoln Avenue, or the neighborhoods around West Side Park and Clark Park in Champaign. Buyers and renters looking for quiet subdivisions and newer construction also favor Cherry Hills, Lincolnshire Fields, and the neighboring southern suburb of Savoy.

Relocating healthcare workers typically choose between established historic blocks and newer suburban-style enclaves. Stone Creek in southeast Champaign is built around Stone Creek Golf Club, offering early-2000s and newer homes with open layouts, finished basements, and an easy drive to Carle Hospital and the university campus.

Those seeking historic character often gravitate toward West Urbana between Race Street and Lincoln Avenue, or the neighborhoods around West Side Park and Clark Park in Champaign. Buyers and renters looking for quiet subdivisions and newer construction also favor Cherry Hills, Lincolnshire Fields, and the neighboring southern suburb of Savoy.

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As of Sep 16, 2026Source 1: champaignrose.com Source 2: reddit.com Source 3: niche.com

Getting aroundNavigating the Champaign-Urbana area is defined by minimal traffic compared to larger metropolitan centers, with key hospital campuses like Carle easily reached via local arterial streets or the regional interstate hub where I-57, I-72, and I-74 converge. Southeast Champaign neighborhoods like Stone Creek provide direct, low-stress road connections to the medical center and campus. For those who prefer alternative commuting, the area features a respectable public bus transit network and well-developed bike infrastructure linking neighborhoods to university and medical facilities.

Navigating the Champaign-Urbana area is defined by minimal traffic compared to larger metropolitan centers, with key hospital campuses like Carle easily reached via local arterial streets or the regional interstate hub where I-57, I-72, and I-74 converge. Southeast Champaign neighborhoods like Stone Creek provide direct, low-stress road connections to the medical center and campus.

For those who prefer alternative commuting, the area features a respectable public bus transit network and well-developed bike infrastructure linking neighborhoods to university and medical facilities.

Sources

As of Sep 16, 2026Source 1: champaignrose.com Source 2: chambanamoms.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: mayflower.com

OutdoorsOutdoor life centers on expansive city parks and nearby prairie preserves. Urbana's Meadowbrook Park features paved walking paths alongside the Wandell Sculpture Garden, complemented by Colbert Park, Anita Purves Nature Center, and West Side Park in Champaign. Distance runners and cyclists use the Kickapoo Rail Trail, while summer recreation includes the Sholem Aquatic Center lazy river. For weekend day trips, locals flock to Lake of the Woods in Mahomet and the formal gardens and forested paths of Allerton Park and Retreat Center.

Outdoor life centers on expansive city parks and nearby prairie preserves. Urbana's Meadowbrook Park features paved walking paths alongside the Wandell Sculpture Garden, complemented by Colbert Park, Anita Purves Nature Center, and West Side Park in Champaign.

Distance runners and cyclists use the Kickapoo Rail Trail, while summer recreation includes the Sholem Aquatic Center lazy river. For weekend day trips, locals flock to Lake of the Woods in Mahomet and the formal gardens and forested paths of Allerton Park and Retreat Center.

Sources

As of Sep 16, 2026Source 1: chambanamoms.com Source 2: lostwithlydia.com Source 3: mayflower.com Source 4: reddit.com

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Living in Champaign

Champaign-Urbana offers a distinctive micro-urban lifestyle that marries Big Ten energy with low-stress Midwestern living. For healthcare professionals relocating to work at regional anchors like Carle Hospital, the twin cities provide remarkably manageable commutes across uncongested roads, supported by respectable bus routes and bike lanes. Housing options range from charming, walkable character properties in West Urbana and around Clark Park to modern, golf-course homes in Stone Creek and family-oriented subdivisions in Savoy. Off shift, nurses enjoy an uncommonly vibrant food culture—spanning Campustown eateries, Downtown Champaign favorites like Maize Mexican Grill, and craft breweries like Triptych—alongside world-class arts at the Krannert Center and quiet escapes at Meadowbrook Park or Allerton Park. The prairie geography brings cold, gray winters and some central neighborhoods carry urban property crime concerns, but the welcoming local ambassador networks and quick interstate access to Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis make Champaign-Urbana an exceptionally comfortable and culturally rich community to call home.

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As of 2026-08Source 1: champaignrose.com Source 2: chambanamoms.com Source 3: lostwithlydia.com Source 4: mayflower.com Source 5: niche.com

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Champaign, ILFrom Census ACS 2024.