Registered Nurse- Mental Health Nursing

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. 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 disorder.

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.
• 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.
• Case Management
• Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.
• Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making.
• Handles information in a confidential 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Case Management
• Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.
• Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making.
• Handles information in a confidential 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
• 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.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
• Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. 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.

And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.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.