RN New Graduate Nurse - at UNC Youth Behavioral Health Facility

Description

Description UNC Youth Behavioral Health Facility is hiring New Grad Nurses to join our team! We are seeking a New Graduate RN to work on a multidisciplinary team.

The New Graduate RN will primarily be working on Cardinal/1

YBH a 14-bed inpatient unit dedicated to providing comprehensive psychiatric care for adolescents aged 12 to 15 who require acute psychiatric stabilization. Our unit is designed to address the urgent needs of these young individuals, focusing on stabilizing their current crises and setting a foundation for long-term mental health.

Seeking nursing graduates to start Fall 2026

Position Offering:

• Shift: Current need being night shift (7pm to 7:30am) with rotating weekends and holidays.
• Hours:
  
  Full time; 36 Hours Per Week;
  Three 12 hour shifts a week
• Entity: UNC Medical Center
• Location:
  
  Butner, NC

In order to qualify for the UNC Medical Center (YBH is part of UNC Medical Center) New Graduate Residency program, candidates must currently be in their final semester of nursing school or recently graduated from nursing school within the past 12 months of the anticipated start date and worked as a RN for less than 6 months. The New Graduate Residency is a yearlong program supporting transition from academia to practice for new graduate nurses.

Additionally, the program provides mentored clinical relationships to support development as a professional nurse. It is required for the applicant to pass the NCLEX exam and be a licensed RN prior to the first day of employment.

Youth Behavioral Health Hospital (YBH) is a 54-bed, 24-hour, locked psychiatric facility located in Butner, North Carolina. YBH philosophy is grounded in a milieu-based, trauma-informed and therapeutic setting. This facility aims to serve patients with a complex history, including aggression and psychosis. Safety is a key component of the care provided as well as introduction of positive coping skills, healthy living and positive leisure activities.

Therapy services will work among a large interdisciplinary team including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Nursing Services. There will be four units dedicated to serving children and adolescent with mental health diagnoses, dual diagnoses, substance misuse and complex behaviors, including those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The staff are to be cross trained on all of these units as one team.

This position qualifies for an extensive benefit package including PTO hours, which are accrued based on the number of worked hours. This position requires the ability to attend a weeklong hospital orientation in Chapel Hill, offered every two weeks in Chapel Hill, NC.

Orientation

Schedule:

Monday and Tuesday
- In person from 8am to 5pm in Chapel Hill;
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
- Virtual.

Summary:

Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities:

• 1. Education
  - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• 2. Evaluation of Care
  - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of…