Rn - Mental Health - Act Program - Charlottesville

General Statement Of Responsibilities

This is an FLSA non‑exempt position. This member of the ACT multi‑disciplinary team is responsible for conducting psychiatric assessments; assessing physical health needs; making appropriate referrals to community physicians; providing management and administration of medication in conjunction with the psychiatrist; providing a range of treatment, rehabilitation, and support services; and sharing shift‑management responsibility with other staff.

• Provide case management for an assigned group of consumers including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team; assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall treatment goals and plans in conjunction with the individual treatment team, providing individual supportive therapy and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as consumers’ needs change, educating and supporting consumers’ families, and advocating for consumers’ rights and preferences.
• Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g., self‑care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.
• Consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.
• Perform shift management in coordination with other ACT shift managers according to established policies and procedures.
• Provide on‑call crisis intervention covering nighttime hours and serve as a backup to evening and weekend staff.
• Document consumer progress to maintain a permanent record of consumer activity according to established methods and procedures.
• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meetings.
• Take the lead role or participate in providing medication administration and medical services.
• Under the direction of the team psychiatrist and in collaboration with 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 team psychiatrist; evaluate and chart psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects; and arrange for required lab work according to protocol.
• Under the direction of the team psychiatrist and in collaboration with other registered nurses on the team, organize and manage the system of getting medication to consumers and integrating medication administration tightly into consumers’ individual treatment plans.
• Under the direction of the team psychiatrist and in collaboration with other registered nurses on the team, manage pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
• In collaboration with the team psychiatrist, coordinate, schedule, and administer medical assessments of consumer physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment, and coordinate psychiatric treatment with medical treatment.
• Participate in treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.
• Read all agency communication.
• Acquire and maintain valid certification in First Aid, CPR, medication administration, non‑aversive behavior management and defensive driving in order to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the program.
• Perform other duties as assigned related to program requirements.

• Provide ongoing assessment of consumers’ mental illness symptoms and consumers’ response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put consumers at risk (e.g., suicidality).
• Provide symptom education to enable consumers to identify their mental…