Mental Health Registered Nurse

Sevita • Saint Paul, MN

3d

About The Position

The Registered Nurse works as part of a Forensic Assertive Community Team that provides care and treatment for clients that are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring chemical dependency and/or personality disorder. FACT is an adaptation of the assertive community treatment model designed to serve people with a serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.

Requirements

• Associate arts degree in nursing and has at least 6,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or bachelor's degree in nursing and has at least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or holds a graduate degree in nursing and has at least 2,000 post BA hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness.
• Ability to problem-solve.
• Communicate skills, orally, and in writing.
• Relationship management skills.
• Ability to work alone.

Nice To Haves

• All staff are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Work in full partnership with the client in his/her recovery process.
• Promote for the care, welfare, treatment, and safety of the clients as individuals who may have significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms and may have co-occurring chemical dependency and/or personality disorders.
• Conduct health/medication assessment, crisis assessment and management, planning, individual counseling, skills teaching, psychiatric/medical case management, medication monitoring/administration, staff training, care coordination with outside providers, and on-call.
• Provide crisis and behavioral management techniques, goal directed counseling, and medical/psychiatric case management.
• Work with a forensic assertive community team with an adaptation of the assertive community treatment model designed to serve people with a serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.
• Work collaboratively with the mental health professionals and the criminal justice agencies.
• Deliver nursing care, monitors treatment, and administers medication to individuals with varying levels of mental health disorders and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities, in accordance with established nursing practices and guidelines.
• Coordinate communications and actions of various disciplines as it relates to health and safety support for the patient.
• Complete daily, monthly, quarterly and annual nursing documents as/ if required and ensure documentation of individual’s health is in nurse’s notes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree