I worked shift work while bipolar - 12 hour shifts - and managed it fine. I was stable on my medications at the time, and I had an understanding with my boss that if I needed a day off I would take it (there was a lot of overtime in those days).

The key thing is to get stable on your meds first before working any shifts outside of day shift, and to treat your shift as daytime. It helped me to do it that way.