Staff Nurse (RN)
About the role
Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC), established in 1971, offers a full continuum of evidence‑based behavioral health and addiction services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors throughout New Jersey. UBHC employs 1,060 behavioral health professionals and support staff across 15 sites, with a $260 million budget, providing inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, screening, crisis stabilization, family/caregiver support, community outreach, case management, supportive housing, supported employment, prevention and consultation, employee assistance programs, and a licensed therapeutic school (preschool‑high school). Specialty services include the New Jersey suicide prevention helpline and peer help lines for police, veterans, active military, teachers, mothers of special‑needs children, and child protective service workers. In FY2016 UBHC treated 16,199 consumers, had 24,502 admissions, and reached 19,441 individual callers through peer support, while delivering 16,000 trainings annually for NJ state departments. The Staff Nurse position is for the Inpatient Units, Crisis and Acute Psychiatric Services Department within UBHC. The primary purpose is to deliver person‑centered, goal‑directed nursing care aligned with departmental and hospital policies, procedures, and all regulatory requirements, functioning as an interdisciplinary team member, participating in quality improvement, educational activities, and supporting research,