RN for Assertive Community Treatment Team
About the role
RHA Health Services is seeking a positive and personable Registered Nurse to join our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team. This position provides oversight and general nursing care to persons with behavioral health challenges in the community. You will be a member of a team that provides integrated crisis response, crisis stabilization interventions, and crisis prevention activities for specialized populations requiring intensive interventions. The role relies on education, skill, and judgment to provide quality services with limited direction and supervision.
RHA's Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) offers a full range of support services to people with serious behavioral health needs. ACTT promotes rehabilitation and independence by teaching people coping skills needed to live in their own communities safely and productively, engaging them in normal daily routines and healthy social interactions. People receiving ACTT services often experience significant reductions in crisis situations such as homelessness, incarceration, or repeated hospitalizations.
Responsibilities
- Following the supports and services as indicated in the recipients Crisis Plan, which is a component of all person centered plans
- Participating as member of interdisciplinary team, attending Person Centered Plan (PCP) meetings, developing plans as requested
- Monitoring consumers and taking appropriate action for side effects and adverse reactions to medications
- Assisting team members with assessing learning needs of the consumers and carrying out teaching as indicated
Qualifications
- Unencumbered active Registered Nursing License
- Bachelor of Nursing preferred
- One year of nursing experience preferred
- Experience in behavioral health nursing preferred
- Valid driver's license and personal vehicle insurance coverage (condition of employment)
- Must maintain proficiency in company sponsored training and certifications and privileging if required
Physical requirements
- Required to lift 20 lbs
- Must be able to lift a minimum of 40 lbs
- Must be able to pull minimum of 25 lbs
- Must be able to squat, kneel, crawl, crouch, climb, and stoop
- Must be able to regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls
- Required to regularly stand and walk
- Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in CPR from the floor level requiring work on hands, knees, bending, standing and lifting
- Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision
- Must be able to talk and hear
Pre-employment screening
- Complete criminal background
- Name checked in the registries (OIG exclusions database, Child Abuse Registry, and Offenders Against Individuals with Developmental Disabilities)
- Drug testing
- Education verification and other credentialing based on position requirements
- Proof of employment history or references (if required)
- Positions that require driving: Proof of driver's license, driver's insurance, and vehicle
Benefits
- Payactiv: early access to the money you've earned from hours you've already worked, before payday
- Employee perks and discount program
- Paid Time Off (full-time employees only)
- Health/Insurance (full-time employees only)
- 401(k) retirement savings program
- Wellbeing Programs: Physical, Emotional and Financial
- Chronic Disease management programs for hypertension and diabetes (for qualifying employees)
- Training: Free CPR, first aid, and job-specific training opportunities