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.

The Registered Nurse works as part of a Forensic Assertive Community Team that provides care and treatment for clients that are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring chemical dependency and/or personality disorder. Primary duties include health/medication assessment, crisis assessment and management, planning, individual counseling, skills teaching, psychiatric/medical case management, medication monitoring/administration, staff training, care coordination with outside providers, and on-call.

* FACT is an adaptation of the assertive community treatment model designed to serve people with a serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.

• Work in full partnership with the client in his/her recovery process.
• Promote for the care, welfare, treatment, and safety of the clients as individuals who may have significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms and may have co-occurring chemical dependency and/or personality disorders.
• Conduct health/medication assessment, crisis assessment and management, planning, individual counseling, skills teaching, psychiatric/medical case management, medication monitoring/administration, staff training, care coordination with outside providers, and on-call.
• Provide crisis and behavioral management techniques, goal directed counseling, and medical/psychiatric case management.
• Work with a forensic assertive community team with an adaptation of the assertive community treatment model designed to serve people with a serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system. Work collaboratively with the mental health professionals and the criminal justice agencies.
• Deliver nursing care, monitors treatment, and administers medication to individuals with varying levels of mental health disorders and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities, in accordance with established nursing practices and guidelines.
• Coordinate communications and actions of various disciplines as it relates to health and safety support for the patient.
• Complete daily, monthly, quarterly and annual nursing documents as/ if required and ensure documentation of individual’s health is in nurse’s notes.

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The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job.

• Associate arts degree in nursing and has at least 6,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or bachelor's degree in nursing and has at least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or holds a graduate degree in nursing and has at least 2,000 post BA hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness.

• All staff are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.