Compensation Range: $45.09 - $50.1 / hour
You Matter:
• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities
Join us and find a career that supports:
• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training
Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.
Why Us:
Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.
If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.
How you make a difference:
As a Psychiatric Registered Nurse in the RISE program, the individual is responsible for coordinating patient care, collaborating with jail nursing staff and psychiatrists to ensure continuity of care, and using the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive psychiatric and medical care. The individual participates in the delivery of program services and possesses knowledge and skills in psychiatric mental health disorders, human growth and development, and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation.
Key Responsibilities:
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge and therapeutic intervention skills based on knowledge of psychiatric mental health disorders, human growth and development, and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation.
• Coordinates the ordering of patients' psychotropic medications with the RISE Psychiatrist and the jail nursing staff and provides psycho-educational groups to the patients.
• Completes an initial nursing assessment and participates in treatment planning and care coordination; serves as a resource and role model for multidisciplinary staff.
• Triage basic medical complaints from RISE patients, assists patients to utilize jail medical services when needed, and demonstrates thorough knowledge of all applicable nursing services and related policy and procedures.
• Demonstrates thorough understanding of all requirements, practice standards, and regulatory requirements relating to the administration of medications, facility policy and procedures, documentation requirements, and medication education, and continues professional development through in-service education, workshops, conferences, and self-study.
Qualifications & Requirements:
Education
Graduated from an accredited college, university or vocational school nursing program.
Bachelor of Science Nursing degree from an accredited school and/or certification in mental health nursing is preferred.
Experience
Experience in correctional mental health and/or psychiatric care at a secure facility.
Licenses/Certifications
Must hold a current State of Colorado nursing license or eligible for same through Licensure by Endorsement through reciprocity.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer:
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.
Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.