Careers

Join the Menninger nursing staff and:

• Be a respected member of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Facilitate healing, recovery and family work in our specialty hospital.
• Expand your expertise in a rich learning environment.
• Pursue your interests in direct patient care and the treatment of eating disorders, dual disorders, adolescents, high-functioning professionals, obsessive- compulsive disorder and adults with mood, anxiety, psychotic, personality, addictive and other disorders.
• Enjoy competitive salary and benefits.

In our own words
Charlotte Elder
Charge nurse, Adolescent Treatment Program

What is your role?
As charge nurse on the adolescent unit, I assist with the design and implementation of treatment for individual adolescents, assist and coordinate off-floor and on-floor staff functions, and educate and work with parents during therapeutic visits.

Describe your career path.
I have been licensed and working since 1965. Before joining Menninger, my experience covered a wide range of nursing positions in the areas of public health, school nursing, prison health, emergency room, chronic care clinics, hospice care and hospitals. In mental health, I’ve had nursing positions in drug abuse clinics and in geriatric psychiatric programs.

What advantages do you appreciate about working at Menninger?
The wonderful differences about working at Menninger are always having the tools I need to provide excellent quality of care and knowing that at the end of every shift the client and their family received outstanding care. In today’s nursing world, this is truly remarkable and extraordinary. It is the norm at Menninger.

What do you enjoy about being a member of the treatment team?
The healthy work environment and the joy of working with highly trained and professional staff. Every day is a challenging growth experience.

What would you tell a nurse considering Menninger?
Joining the Menninger staff has been my best career development choice. The quality of the people that I work with am supervised by, and associate with are priceless. We enjoy a very healthy work environment. The money is good, too!



Renee Azzouz
Nurse manager, OCD Treatment Program

What is your role?
I have the role of being both the OCD Center’s nurse manager and program manager. My major responsibilities include working with the program director and medical director to determine appropriate programming, educate, support and motivate staff to achieve their potential, oversee day-to-day treatment on the unit and serve as a liaison to administration, as well as to Marketing, Admissions and other clinical departments. I also work directly with the patients in groups and interact with them on the unit.

Describe your career path.
I started at Menninger as a mental health counselor with all intentions of returning to school to get my master’s in social work. I worked in an all-boys’ adolescent program and loved it! Because of that positive experience, I went back to school and got my degree in nursing with the help of the tuition assistance program that Menninger offers.

What advantages do you appreciate about working at Menninger?
Being a member of a team that enjoys working together and is dedicated to patients and the treatment of OCD and anxieties inspires me. I recognize that we are not perfect, but it is easier to overlook problems when the investment in helping patients is always clear.

What do you enjoy about being a member of the treatment team?
There are many advantages of being employed at Menninger. The organization’s leaders have had a long history of being good to their employees. Menninger has always given me the opportunity to grow and learn.

Collaborative treatment efforts that focus on the patients are made a priority in administration and throughout the organization. I enjoy being associated with quality staff members who truly care about patients and their treatment.

What would you tell a nurse considering Menninger?
I would encourage anyone who is considering working at Menninger to talk with current employees. There is a difference here. We have a caring place to work with a long history of commitment to psychiatric nursing.