RN

About the Role

A Behavioral Health Nurse - RN provides nursing care to chronically or acutely sick patients; offers medication monitoring, adjusts medications within limits prescribed by Medical Director or designate, and acts as a liaison between client and Medical Director or designate, lab, pharmacist, family or residential facility staff, and other community caregivers. This role includes providing information, education, and support for clients; promoting wellness, recovery, and skill-building to sustain better health; and prevention training in areas such as wellness, recovery, managing symptoms, making healthy lifestyle choices, recognizing and responding to relapse, managing crisis, and achieving and sustaining recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provides life skills and wellness didactic services using evidence-based methodologies to deliver excellent clinical services.
• Prepares for and conducts individual, group, and family therapy for assigned caseload.
• Assists service recipients in developing individualized, person-centered, family-centered, and service-centered treatment plans.
• Monitors service recipient progress in treatment and participates in treatment plan reviews; updates treatment plans as appropriate.
• Submits treatment plans at all stages for medical review, if applicable.
• Conducts intake for recipients entering services, including explaining services, gathering information, ensuring understanding of forms, securing signatures on contracts and consents, and submitting materials for processing.
• Conducts assessments and writes assessment summaries.
• Assists service recipients with linkage to internal and external resources as outlined in treatment plans, in coordination with Integrated Healthcare Services.
• Maintains appropriate contact with referral sources, providing information on service recipient progress, behavior, and needs (with appropriate releases) and ongoing consultation when appropriate.
• Assists in making discharge plans and provides follow-up medical services as assigned.
• Administers and monitors medications, documents patients’ reactions, and provides medication training to clients or their families/guardians.
• Obtains laboratory specimens and assists doctors with patient examinations and continuity of care arrangements with other providers.
• Monitors urinalysis, breathalyzer, and other testing as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of Associate's Degree in Nursing.
• Must meet Qualified Mental Health Professional status in relevant programs.
• Active unencumbered Illinois Registered Nurse license required.

Skills & Abilities

• Effectively communicate via written, verbal, in-person, and virtual methods.
• Skilled in customer service techniques.
• Skilled in problem-solving.

Physical Requirements

• Standing – 20%
• Sitting – 80%
• Squatting – Occasional
• Kneeling – Occasional
• Bending – Occasional
• Driving – Occasional
• Lifting – Occasional

Pay

$29.63–$41.54 per hour.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health coverage.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• 403b retirement plan with company match.
• Paid time off and ten paid holidays.
• AD&D Insurance, Life Insurance, and Long-Term Disability (company paid).
• Employee Resource Groups.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Program.

Schedule

Full time.