Assertive Community Treatment Team Psychiatric Nurse

Job

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

Make a Real Impact as a Psychiatric Nurse on Our ACT Team. If you want a nursing role that feels purposeful and hands‑on, this is it. As a Psychiatric Nurse on our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team, you’ll work closely with individuals with complex mental health needs and play a key role in helping them build stability and independence. This is community‑based work where relationships matter.

You’ll meet clients in their homes and out in the community, offering consistent support through assessments, treatment planning, medication education, and ongoing psychiatric care. You’ll collaborate with a dedicated, multidisciplinary team that values your clinical judgment and relies on your expertise.

• $5,000 sign‑on bonus
• Monday‑through‑Friday schedule, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with occasional evenings and weekends
• Meaningful, relationship‑driven work where you see real progress over time

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.

Benefits include:

• Paid time off, parental leave, 401(k) matching, and an employee recognition program
• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long‑term disability, and pet insurance for your four‑legged family members
• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement, and adoption assistance

• 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 procedures.
• Provides on‑call crisis interventions covering after business hours, overnights and weekends as scheduled.
• Initiates and maintains relationships, in coordination with other staff, with law enforcement, other human service agencies, and informal community resources, (e.g. landlords, employers, etc.), advocating on behalf of the client’s abilities, interests, and needs.
• Advocate for clients to help meet their needs, desires and best interests.
• Utilize critical thinking in making independent judgements and maintain responsibility and accountability for service provided.
• Knowledge of the effects of mental illness…