Assertive Community Treatment Team Psychiatric Nurse

* Area of Interest:
Nursing

* Sign On Bonus: $5,000

* FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.0

* Department: ACT

* Shift: M-F 8-4:30;
Occasional evenings (until 7 PM);
Occasional weekends

* Job

Overview

Join Our Team as a Psychiatric Nurse - ACT Program

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of individuals with complex needs? We're seeking a dedicated Psychiatric Nurse to work directly with clients on our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team. Using the evidence-based ACT model designed by NAMI, you'll provide comprehensive, wraparound services that support client goals in mental health, physical health, housing, employment, and social well-being.

In this role, you'll conduct assessments, develop treatment plans, and collaborate with clients and team members in community and home settings to achieve meaningful outcomes. You'll also provide medication education, manage prescriptions, and ensure clients receive the psychiatric care they need-all while representing our agency with professionalism and compassion.

What We Offer:

* $5,000 Sign-On Bonus

* Monday-Friday schedule (8:00 AM-4:30 PM) with occasional evenings and weekends

* The opportunity to impact lives through holistic, client-centered care

Why UnityPoint Health?

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We're proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you're in.  Here are just a few:

* Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.

* Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.

* Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

Responsibilities

Direct Client Care and Medical Services:

* Under the direction of the team medication prescriber and in collaboration with the other registered nurses on the team, develop, revise, maintain, and supervise team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording psychotropic medications prescribed by the medication prescriber.

* Takes a lead role in providing medication administration and nursing care, evaluating and charting psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects as prescribed by ACT psychiatrist or ARNP.

* Administer IM injections according to protocol, properly destroy medications according to protocol, and assure client attendance and follow-up with psychiatric prescriber.

* Arranges for required lab work according to protocol, tracking collections and results.

* Provides education to patients and family members on benefits and possible side effects of medications.

* Provides individual and group treatment, as part of a team, in the office and community settings. Treatment will be in a stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational

* In collaboration with the team psychiatrist or ARNP coordinate, schedule, and administer medical assessments of client physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment, and coordinating psychiatric treatment with medical treatment.

* Provides individual, couple, family and group services/skill teaching in a community setting to teach patients behavioral symptom management as a means of coping with internal and external stressors.

* Performs shift management in coordination with other ACT staff according to established policy and…