Registered Nurse Needed for an ACT team!
Full-time position!
Program/Department Description:
The Bronx Shelter ACT Team will serve individuals with mental health conditions who are experiencing homelessness and are temporarily housed within a Bronx mental health shelter. Team members will work collaboratively with shelter staff in the Bronx and other boroughs and use assertive engagement strategies to proactively engage individuals in services. ACT team members share responsibility for the people they serve, helping individuals attain housing and other personal goals that may be of a health, social, work or education nature. ACT teams are multi-disciplinary and include psychiatry, nursing, social work, peer specialists and other staff members offering rehabilitation, treatment and recovery support services. The team provides expertise in the areas of housing, substance use and harm reduction, family support, employment, and wellness self-management. Based on their area of expertise, team members collaborate to deliver comprehensive, integrated and flexible services that are responsive to a participant's choices, needs and goals. With a small staff to participant ratio, services are brought to the participant and offered in natural settings, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Overview
The Registered Nurse (RN) functions as a primary practitioner who assesses and monitors ACT participants' clinical health and response to treatment. The nursing approach of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation and evaluation is used to assists individuals in their achievement of mental health, rehabilitation and recovery goals. Core Principles
The job responsibilities of all staff extend to understanding and incorporating certain principles into their work and into their relationships with program participants. These principles are: - Program participants' right to self-determination; - Respectful communication; - Services that support recovery and healing consistent with and nurturing each participant's cultural background, experience, identity, and values. - Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services. Essential Job Functions
• Develop, implement and maintain ACT program nursing standards. • Guide the development of policies and procedures and identification of resources essential to delivery of nursing services. • Conduct psychiatric, physical health and other assessments. • Develop, or consult and coordinate with team to develop, plans to address participant health needs. • Monitor and modify treatment plans as indicated by participant responses and conditions. • Use online databases and portals e.g. PSYCKES and Healthix, to support assessment and treatment planning. • Order, interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess participant conditions. • Provide management and administration of medication in conjunction with the psychiatrist. • Provide a range of treatment, rehabilitation, and support services. • Utilize motivational interviewing techniques and a trauma informed approach when delivering individual and group based health services. • Administer IM's and vaccines, plants and reads PPD's, and performs phlebotomy as per orders • Monitor vital signs and side effects of medications and reports findings to Team • Collaborate with psychiatrist and other medical personnel to schedule appointments and coordinate care. • Make referrals to community physicians and work jointly with hospital and institutional staff. • Intervene and advocate on participant's behalf with, for example, collaterals, agencies, facilities and family members; assist with problem solving to help participant access needed supports. • Provide consultation to ACT team regarding participant medical issues; serves as a resource to the team on medical concerns. • Maintains accurate, detailed reports and records including required documentation, progress notes and health related data, in AWARDS. • Evaluate and establish system for reporting on nursing intervention and expected outcomes. • Provide direction and clinical supervision to LPN. • Attend and participate in supervision, meetings and training sessions as required. • Utilize public transportation for travel throughout the boroughs. This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Job Qualifications
• Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants' rights, and self-determination in service provision. • Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse by the New York State Education Department. • Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred. • Minimum four (4) years' experience working as an RN. • Minimum three (3) years' experience working with persons with mental health condition in health or social services setting. • Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. • Ability to synthesize and summarize information and make judgments regarding care. • Eligible for full and unconditional participation in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. • Computer proficiency • Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center For more information and to apply, please contact :
Howard Newman
Account Manager, Bond Health Staffing
5824 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11219
Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204
Fax: 1-718-302-0070 Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com