Job Title: Registered Nurse

Department: Community Care Programs

Sub Department: Bronx ACT I

Reports To: Director

Salary: $80000 - $85000

Schedule: Monday – Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Licensed In The State of New York

Experience: At lease two years experience working with adults that have been diagnosed with a serious mental health diagnosis.

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility for the development of individualized health assessments on all program participants. Develop, implement, and evaluate the nursing regimen for assigned recipients.
• Participate in defining, implementing, and maintaining standards of nursing practic
• Participate in determining conditions, resources, and policies essential to the delivery of nursing care services
• Assesses needs for housing, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, medical care, income support, and other services
• Facilitate the coordination of health services into recipients’ service plans
• Facilitate group sessions on prevention, health, wellness, HIV/AIDS education, smoking cessation and recovery
• During the assessment obtains information: a) to establish the degree of medical care and interventions required to promote positive health outcomes, and b) to lead the ACT team around primary care issues and incorporate findings into service plans
• Provide education to all ACT staff around physical health related issues and participant medical care protocols
• Act as advocate and liaison for recipients in securing medical care, and other community supports that promote integrated physical and mental health wellness
• Review and audit medication management procedures and teach all ACT staff how to follow and adhere to the procedures
• Provide supervision to the LPN on medication inventory oversight and medication management procedures
• Coordinate ACT team medical care in coordination with psychiatrist
• Ensure all consumers have primary care provider and receive annual physical and dental examinations
• Provide individual health counseling as needed
• Maintain schedule for recipient prescriptions
• Administer IM’s and vaccines, plants and reads PPD’s, and performs phlebotomy as per orders
• Transcribe orders and updates Medication Administration Records
• Monitor vital signs and side effects of medications and reports findings to Team
• Participate in incident review committee
• Evaluate, on a continuing basis, nursing intervention and expected outcomes
• Involve family, significant others, and housing providers in service provision
• Build in review and evaluation points, and modifies the service plan in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others
• Meet required levels of treatment contacts and provides crisis intervention on rotating, on-call basis
• Provide 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community
• Complete assessments, progress notes, and significant data
• Provide culturally competent services in accordance with The Bridge policies and practice.
• Complete progress notes, and maintain nursing and health related data entry into EHR
• Provide culturally competent services in accordance with The Bridge policies and practice
• Any other duties as required by the Director and Administrators.

Preferred Qualities:

• Experience understanding various models and theories pertaining to treatment of substance abuse, mental illness, and risk, need, responsivity to criminal behavior
• Knowledge of community treatment, support services, and resources
• Highly organized and self-motivated
• Proficient in computers
• Fluency in Spanish preferred.

Individuals with lived experience in the areas of mental health, substance use, or criminal justice are encouraged to apply

The Bridge is an AA/EOE

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• License reimbursement
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Home Health
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry
• Public Health

Physical setting:

• Outpatient

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

COVID-19 considerations:
COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED; MASK WEARING REQUIRED

Ability to commute/relocate:

• New York, NY: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

License/Certification:

• RN License (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 75% (Required)

Work Location: One location

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