Description

Who We Are

Our all-women’s campus provides a safe place to heal with a treatment team that leads our program in a serene, 36-acre campus overlooking a pond where women can connect to nature, themselves, and one another, unburdened. Located just outside of Birmingham, Alabama, our eating disorder treatment center provides care to adolescent girls (ages 12 to 17) and adult women (ages 18 and older) who struggle with feeding or eating disorders.

Dually licensed as an eating disorder center as well as a mental health treatment center, Magnolia Creek can tailor a dual diagnosis program for co-occurring mental health conditions including mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), attachment disorder, dissociative disorders, and personality disorders.

Columbiana is commutable from Shelby, Calera, Chelsea, Montevallo, Alabaster, Pelham, and commute is against traffic from Birmingham area.

What We Offer

• Team driven culture based on our 5 Star Service Commitment
• Low client to staff ratio
• Peaceful, home-like environment
• Multiple Development Pathways
• Company Supported Continuing Education & Certification
• PPO & HDHP Health Plan Options
• Flexible Dental & Vision Plan Options
• 100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
• 100% Company Paid Critical Illness (with health enrollment plan)
• 100% Company Paid Life & ADD
• 401K with Company Match
• Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax Savings Accounts
• Six Annual Paid Holidays Plus One Floating Holiday
• Generous Team Member Referral Program

How You Will Make a Difference

The Staff Nurse provides general medical care for clients at Magnolia Creek Treatment Center for Eating Disorders, under the direct supervision of the Nurse Manager, including completing assessments, administering and ordering/refilling medications per physician’s orders, reviewing physician’s orders and medical record reviews, recording complaints, observing client behavior and collecting/reviewing lab samples/results.

Relationships and Contacts

Initiates and maintains frequent and close working relationships with the Admissions Director, the Executive Director and clinical team members.

Position Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities

1. Assists new clients with the settling in process and provide social and emotional support for them throughout their stay at Magnolia Creek Treatment Center for Eating Disorders.
2. Maintains appropriate personal/professional interaction with all clients and assists in immediate problem solving/intervention during crisis.
3. Assists in performing a comprehensive nursing assessment, collects data that will aid in the development of a treatment plan for the clients.
4. Reviews and updates client’s treatment plans and privilege lists on a weekly basis following treatment team meetings.
5. Maintains a clean and sanitary environment in the Nurses’ Stations and practicing universal precautions.
6. Ensures the security of the medications and medical records and ensures that only relevant providers will have access to them.
7. Determines if there are unhealthy/unsafe conditions in the work area and report these conditions to the proper personnel.
8. Ensures proper documentation is completed in a thorough and timely manner and that the communication log is read and completed on a daily basis.

Additional Responsibilities

1. Upholds all policies and procedures relating to medical interventions (e.g. Medication Error Reporting, Ancillary Services, etc.).
2. Follows established shift coverage protocols, ensuring that proper coverage is maintained in order to provide quality care to our clients. The Nurse is responsible for proper and accurate shift hand-off information between shifts.
3. Assists with daily teaching and discharge planning of the clients, and document accordingly.
4. Promotes the mission, goals and objectives of Magnolia Creek Treatment Center for Eating Disorders.
5. Attends staff meetings and trainings as required, as well as, lead Health and Wellness group as needed.
6. Performs additional duties and responsibilities, as needed.

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Qualifications

What We're Seeking 

Education and Experience

Must be currently licensed or eligible to be licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the Alabama Board of Nursing. Associates degree in Nursing required, Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred. Experience with eating disorders is strongly preferred.

Other Requirements

Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver’s license and vehicle insurance.

Skill Competencies

• Demonstrates knowledge of admissions/discharge processes within a healthcare facility
• Demonstrates foundational knowledge of eating disorders and/or therapeutic and medical treatment interventions
• Understands and is able to clearly convey medical necessity criteria for residential treatment, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient levels of care.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrates the ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, administrative and time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Demonstrates a strong belief in and commitment to the goals and mission of Magnolia Creek Treatment Center

Magnolia Creek Treatment Center reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.” The aforementioned job requirements are subject to change to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities.