Mental Health Registered Nurse

Spring Path Mental Health Services, a part of the Sevita family, provides behavioral health services through Intensive Residential Treatment, Assertive Community Treatment, and Targeted Case Management programs. We embrace a person-centered approach that is trauma informed, culturally responsive, and recovery-oriented. Our dedicated team supports individuals with mental health, psychiatric, or other complex needs to overcome challenges, build skills, and live a full, meaningful life.

Overview:

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.

External

Job Description:

* Attends and actively participates in weekly team meetings

* Provides rehabilitation and coordinates medical needs for clients.

* Medication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections

* Medication training for staff

* Orders, reviews, monitors, and discontinues medications as ordered by the physician

* Assist with keeping within assigned nursing budget.

* Conducting assessments

* Approving plan of care and service delivery methods

* Performs 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

* Coordinates psychiatric information with the psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.

* Writes Progress notes, summaries, and discharges

* Group and Individual Counseling

* Case Management

* Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies

* Crisis Prevention

* Reports significant / major incidents or accidents.

* Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.

* Provides and promotes consumer choice and facilitate independence.

* Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.

* Performs other duties designed to improve employee effectiveness as a member of the team

* Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making.

* Dependable

* Conduct self in professional and ethical manner

* Willing to assist others

* Work Independently and with a team

* Handles information in a confidential manner.

* Communicates in an open and honest manner.

* Notifies proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazards.

* Assists in maintaining and updating nursing, pharmacy, infection control, and health, and safety policies and procedures

* Other tasks as assigned.

Interrnal

Job Description:

* Attends and actively participates in weekly team meetings

* Provides rehabilitation and coordinates medical needs for clients.

* Medication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections

* Medication training for staff

* Orders, reviews, monitors, and discontinues medications as ordered by the physician

* Assist with keeping within assigned nursing budget.

* Conducting assessments

* Approving plan of care and service delivery methods

* Performs 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

* Coordinates psychiatric information with the psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.

* Writes Progress notes, summaries, and discharges

* Group and Individual Counseling

* Case Management

* Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies

* Crisis Prevention

* Reports significant / major incidents or accidents.

* Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.

* Provides and promotes consumer choice and facilitate independence.

* Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.

* Performs other duties designed to improve employee effectiveness as a member of the team

* Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making.

* Dependable

* Conduct self in professional and…