Heartland Behavioral Health

The facility has provided acute and residential care for youth mental health services for over 100 years, making it one of the longer-standing behavioral health institutions in the Midwest. As a UHS subsidiary, the facility recruits through the UHS career portal and provides access to UHS employee benefits. Nursing roles at Heartland include Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses who function as part of a mental health treatment team, providing leadership during designated shifts, managing patient assignments, supervising direct care staff, and administering medications to a pediatric psychiatric population. The RN role involves communicating patient information through shift reports, making patient assignments based on staff capabilities, and overseeing treatment programming. The work environment is specialized in child and adolescent behavioral health, requiring nurses comfortable with psychiatric care for youth populations.