Registered Nurse (Mental Health)

Registered Nurse

SpringPath Mental Health Services, a part of the Sevita family, provides behavioral health services through Intensive Residential Treatment, Assertive Community Treatment, and Targeted Case Management programs. We embrace a person-centered approach that is trauma informed, culturally responsive, and recovery-oriented. Our dedicated team supports individuals with mental health, psychiatric, or other complex needs to overcome challenges, build skills, and live a full, meaningful life.

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 disorders.

Essential Job Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.

• Attends and actively participates in all 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.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills Required for the Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job.

Education and Experience:

• Associate arts degree in nursing and has at least 6,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or bachelor's degree in nursing and has at least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or holds a graduate degree in nursing and has at least 2,000 post BA hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness.

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:

• All staff are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to problem-solve.
• Communicate skills, orally, and in writing.
• Relationship management skills.
• Ability to work alone.

Other Requirements:

• Travel as needed.

Physical Requirements:

• Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Pay Range: $90,000-$93,000

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.