Registered Nurse - Assertive Community Treatment

# Registered Nurse
- Assertive Community TreatmentACT Office
- Brainerd, MN 56401## Overview Salary Range $70,000.00 - $75,000.00 Salary## Position Description
*** Northern Pines Mental Health Center is proud to offer competitive wages and an exceptional benefits package!
*** Northern Pines Mental Health Center is seeking a
** Registered Nurse (RN)
** to join our
** Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
** team. ACT is an intensive mental health service provided in a home or community setting throughout our six-county service region in Central Minnesota (Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena).
** Essential Functions
** include:
* Promptly provide crisis interventions, face-to-face, short-term, intensive mental health services provided during a mental health crisis or emergency in order to help recipients: cope with stressors, identify and use available resources, avoid unnecessary hospitalization and loss of independent living, develop action plans, begin to return to his/her baseline level of functioning
* Develop culturally appropriate crisis intervention treatment plans with clients and update as necessary
* Provide appropriate referrals to clients fort different and/ or additional mental health services
* Provide crisis stabilization services: mental health services, provided after crisis intervention, to help the recipient return functioning to the level it was before the crisis by: considering the crisis assessment and intervention treatment plan, consider the need for further assessment and referrals, update the crisis stabilization treatment plan, provide supportive counseling, conduct skills training, collaborate with other service providers in the community, provide education regarding mental illness support to the recipient’s network
* Consultat with on-duty Mental Health Professionals regarding client interactions
** Qualifications
* * include:
* A Master’s, Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in Nursing
* Current, unrestricted RN license in the State of MN
* Professional experience working with adults struggling with mental illness
* This position involves travel; a valid Driver’s License and ability to operate a motor vehicle is required
** Compensation & Benefits
** include:
* Wage Range: $70,000 - $75,000 annually
* Health, Dental, Disability and Life insurance with other additional voluntary options for spousal life, short term disability, accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness plans
* Health Savings account with employer contribution
* 401K with employer match
* Generous paid time off (Earn 19 days/ year your 1st - 3rd years. Increases with longevity!)
* Nine holidays observed per year as follows:
New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and a Weather Float Day.
* Supportive of time off for a healthy work/life balance
* Bereavement Pay
* Travel reimburse men

Northern Pines Mental Health Center is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

To apply , please submit a resume and cover letter.
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