Registered Nurse - IMT

Intensive Mobile Treatment Registered Nurse

Community Access was founded in 1974 to provide housing and support for people being discharged from psychiatric institutions. Today, we are one of the leading providers of supportive and affordable housing in New York City, and the originators of an integrated housing model which has become a best practice nationally: affordable housing where families live alongside people living with mental health concerns. Our staff work daily to support thousands of New Yorkers through supportive and affordable housing, peer-driven residential crisis support programs, training, advocacy, supported education, mobile treatment and other healing-focused services.

Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) is an innovative, creative, trauma-informed mobile practice model designed to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to individuals whose needs have not been met by traditional services. IMT participants interact with homeless services, criminal justice, and behavioral health service systems. IMT teams are hired, trained and funded to maximize flexibility and continuity of care for persons who historically have been poorly served.

Community Access' IMT Teams serve individuals who are street homeless or living between institutional settings and housing. Team members work collaboratively with settings in which the participant is living and use assertive engagement strategies to proactively engage individuals in services. IMT team members share responsibility for the people they serve, helping individuals attain housing and other personal and safety goals that may be of a health, social, work or education nature.

IMT teams are multi-disciplinary and include psychiatry, nursing, social work, peer specialists and other staff members offering rehabilitation, treatment and recovery support services. The team provides expertise in the areas of housing, substance use and harm reduction, criminal justice, peer support and behavioral health recovery. Based on their area of expertise, team members collaborate to deliver comprehensive, integrated and flexible services that are responsive to a participant's choices, needs and goals. With a small staff to participant ratio, services are brought to the participant and offered in natural settings, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

The IMT Registered Nurse is responsible for overseeing the health interventions for all program participants, in coordination with the team's prescriber and other staff. The Registered Nurse works collaboratively with program participants and team members to ensure healthcare is coordinated and delivered within the framework of participant self-determination, recovery, and cultural competency. The Registered Nurse is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining IMT's program nursing standards all while guiding the development of policies and procedures and identification of resources essential to delivering nursing services. The Registered Nurse will also conduct psychiatric, physical health and other assessments with a special focus on assessments and evaluations with individuals using substances or experiencing street homelessness.

Key Performance Indicators

• Update face sheets for new diagnostic and prescription information within 2 business days of any hospital contact.
• Complete progress notes for all contacts, collaterals, and attempts within 2 business days.
• Complete assigned nursing evaluations on time.

Job Qualifications

• Have an understanding, appreciation, and commitment to the philosophy and mission of Community Access.
• Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants' rights, and self-determination in service provision.
• Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse by the New York State Education Department.
• Minimum two (2) years' experience working as an RN.
• Minimum two (2) years' experience working with persons with mental health condition in health or social services setting.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize and summarize information and make judgments regarding care.
• Eligible for full and unconditional participation in the Medicaid and Medicare programs.
• Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as comfort with learning new electronic systems.
• Comfort providing treatment in non-traditional settings, including but not limited to the street, community spaces, and shelters.
• Must be able to work in the community, including use of public transportation throughout the boroughs
• Must be able to lift and carry 25 pounds
• Bilingual Spanish-speaking, preferred
• Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center

Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.