RN - mental health (night shift - part-time or full-time)

Registered Nurse Opportunity

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people who have mental illness?

If so - you are encouraged to consider a unique nursing career opportunity with Liberty Healthcare.

In collaboration with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Liberty Healthcare operates a state-of-the-art 10-bed inpatient mental health unit within the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City, CA.

As a RN with Liberty, you will primarily be responsible for providing direct nursing care to adult inmates who have acute mental illness. This will include:

• Working on the night shift from 10:45 pm to 7:00 am
• Providing medical and psychiatric nursing care to patients
• Delivering a full range of nursing services - including conducting daily sick call; evaluating / triaging patient health complaints; examining patients; determining medical and psychiatric needs; interpreting, recording and reporting conditions of significance to the treatment team; and dispensing medications according to Physician orders
• Documenting patient encounters and changes in patient mental health status
• Actively participating in interdisciplinary treatment team planning meetings
• Collaborating with Psychiatrists, Psychologists, RNs, LCSWs, LMFTs and other ancillary clinicians and security staff
• Intervening in crisis situations when patients exhibit acute psychiatric symptoms

Liberty offers RNs $67.00 per hour (which includes a shift differential).

You have the option to work per diem, part time or full time. Full-time employee of Liberty Healthcare receive comprehensive benefits.

You are a good fit for this position if you are professionally licensed in California as a Registered Nurse and have an interest in psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Liberty Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity, equality and inclusion are among our deepest-held values. We work to create an environment that attracts real talent and we seek to motivate, inspire and recognize high performance among all employees - regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, or disability. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment.