Mental Health Registered Nurse

ResCare Community Living, a part of the Sevita family, provides quality services that empower individuals, enhance independence, and help people live well. Since 1974, we’ve supported individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live more independently at home and in their community. With our dedicated team and experienced staff, we provide person-centered services that help people build skills, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential.

Overview:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing care and treatment for people served in an intensive residential treatment setting that are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring substance abuse and/or personality disorder.

External Job Description:

• Attends and actively participates in weekly team meetings

• Provides rehabilitation and coordinates medical needs for clients.

• Medication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections

• Medication training for staff

• Orders, reviews, monitors, and discontinues medications as ordered by the physician

• Assist with keeping within assigned nursing budget.

• Conducting assessments

• Approving plan of care and service delivery methods

• Performs competency and skills evaluations on employees who provide direct care.

• Informing the physician and staff of changes in the client’s medical or mental condition and needs

• Coordinates psychiatric information with the psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.

• Writes Progress notes, summaries, and discharges

• Group and Individual Counseling

• Case Management

• Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies

• Crisis Prevention

• Reports significant / major incidents or accidents.

• Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.

• Provides and promotes consumer choice and facilitate independence.

• Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.

• Performs other duties designed to improve employee effectiveness as a member of the team

• Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making.

• Dependable

• Conduct self in professional and ethical manner

• Willing to assist others

• Work Independently and with a team

• Handles information in a confidential manner.

• Communicates in an open and honest manner.

• Notifies proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazards.

• Assists in maintaining and updating nursing, pharmacy, infection control, and health, and safety policies and procedures

• Other tasks as assigned.

Interrnal Job Description:

• Attends and actively participates in weekly team meetings

• Provides rehabilitation and coordinates medical needs for clients.

• Medication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections

• Medication training for staff

• Orders, reviews, monitors, and discontinues medications as ordered by the physician

• Assist with keeping within assigned nursing budget.

• Conducting assessments

• Approving plan of care and service delivery methods

• Performs competency and skills evaluations on employees who provide direct care.

• Informing the physician and staff of changes in the client’s medical or mental condition and needs

• Coordinates psychiatric information with the psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.

• Writes Progress notes, summaries, and discharges

• Group and Individual Counseling

• Case Management

• Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies

• Crisis Prevention

• Reports significant / major incidents or accidents.

• Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.

• Provides and promotes consumer choice and facilitate independence.

• Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.

• Performs other duties designed to improve employee effectiveness as a member of the team

• Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making.

• Dependable

• Conduct self in professional and ethical manner

• Willing to assist others

• Work Independently and with a team

• Handles information in a confidential manner.

• Communicates in an open and honest manner.

• Notifies proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazards.

• Assists in maintaining and updating nursing, pharmacy, infection control, and health, and safety policies and procedures

• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Must be 21 years of age

• Holds a bachelor's degree in nursing or related health and human services field from an accredited college or university with at least 2000 hours of experience with adult persons who have a serious psychiatric disability or holds an RN from an accredited two-year program and has more than 6,000 hours of experience with adult persons who have a serious psychiatric disability.

• Valid driver’s license and insurance required

• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.

• Experience in managing systems, processes, and people.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.