Registered Nurse Psychiatric; NY HELPS), Binghamton Health Center, P27346

Duties Description

Nurses are vital members of a multi-disciplinary team focused on providing compassionate, patient‑centered and recovery‑focused mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness.

• Planning and supervising nursing care
• Coordinating and providing nursing care
• Conducting nursing assessments
• Preparing, implementing, and modifying nursing care plans
• Providing health teaching, counseling, and education to individuals and families
• Implementing infection control protocols and procedures
• Observing and recording individuals’ symptoms and care; reporting responses to medications or changes in health

• A license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State and one year of post‑licensure clinical nursing experience working with individuals, at least 50% of whom have been diagnosed with mental illness, addiction, or substance use disorder.
• OR. Candidates within State Service can be considered for transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55‑b/55‑c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

• Shift differential for evening & night shifts (7% for evening, 10% for night)
• Nurse Residency Program
• Alternate Work Schedules
• NYS medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Access to tuition assistance programs
• Paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, and paid sick leave
• NYS Retirement programs

Background check will be required.

• If you fail to maintain your license and/or registration once you are appointed, action will be taken to remove you from the position.
• To be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists, you may be terminated from your employment.
• If appointed you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider, obtain and provide a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number, and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.