Mental Health Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Spring Path Mental Health Services, a part of the Sevita family, believes everyone deserves the opportunity to live a full, meaningful life. Our compassionate team supports individuals with emotional, behavioral, and other mental health challenges build the skills they need to thrive. With a person-centered approach, we provide residential, outpatient, and community-based services to help people navigate life and get the most out of each day.

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing care and treatment for people served in an intensive residential treatment setting that are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring substance abuse and/or personality disorder.

Responsibilities include:

• Attending and actively participating in weekly team meetings
• Providing rehabilitation and coordinating medical needs for clients
• Medication monitoring and administration by oral medication or needle injections
• Medication training for staff
• Ordering, reviewing, monitoring, and discontinuing medications as ordered by the physician
• Assisting with keeping within assigned nursing budget
• Conducting assessments
• Approving plan of care and service delivery methods
• Performing competency and skills evaluations on employees who provide direct care
• Informing the physician and staff of changes in the client's medical or mental condition and needs
• Coordinating psychiatric information with the psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners
• Writing progress notes, summaries, and discharges
• Group and individual counseling
• Case management
• Implementing the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies
• Crisis prevention
• Reporting significant/major incidents or accidents
• Providing and arranging necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Following consumer health plans
• Providing and promoting consumer choice and facilitating independence
• Assisting with ensuring compliance with contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements
• Performing other duties designed to improve employee effectiveness as a member of the team
• Promoting/encouraging community integration and choice making
• Dependable
• Conducting self in a professional and ethical manner
• Willing to assist others
• Working independently and with a team
• Handling information in a confidential manner
• Communicating in an open and honest manner
• Notifying proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazards
• Assisting in maintaining and updating nursing, pharmacy, infection control, and health, and safety policies and procedures
• Other tasks as assigned

Qualifications include:

• Must be 21 years of age
• Holds a bachelor's degree in nursing or related health and human services field from an accredited college or university with at least 2000 hours of experience with adult persons who have a serious psychiatric disability or holds an RN from an accredited two-year program and has more than 6,000 hours of experience with adult persons who have a serious psychiatric disability.
• Valid driver's license and insurance required
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
• Experience in managing systems, processes, and people

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face. We've made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.