MA - Float Psych RN - Evening (3p-11:30p)

Carenest Health Services • Holyoke, MA

23h • Onsite

About The Position

MiraVista Behavioral Health Center is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide direct and indirect care to patients, families, and legal guardians. The RN is an active participant in the health care team and is responsible for maintaining a safe therapeutic milieu grounded in the center’s core principles. The RN collaborates with the multidisciplinary treatment team and contributes to individual treatment plans by helping develop, implement, and document appropriate goals and interventions informed by patient strengths and presenting psychiatric problems.

This is a full-time position in Holyoke, Massachusetts, working 40 hours per week on eight-hour evening shifts from 3:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., including every other weekend. The nurse must be willing to float and take charge; there is no charge multiplier. A Massachusetts nursing license is required at the time of submission.

MiraVista Behavioral Health Center is an 84-bed inpatient hospital providing psychiatric and co-occurring substance-use treatment. The organization describes its approach as compassionate, effective, and sustainable care, delivered by a collaborative, empowered team in a nonjudgmental environment that champions patients and supports one another.

Requirements

• Massachusetts RN license required at the time of submission.
• Three years of adult, adolescent, and geriatric inpatient psychiatric experience required.
• CPR certification required.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and decision-making skills, including problem-solving ability.
• Advanced knowledge of behavioral health and substance-abuse treatment modalities.
• Ability to apply the nursing process using a Trauma Informed Recovery model of care.
• Ability to develop therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Sufficient typing and computer skills to use an Electronic Medical Record.
• Crisis management, time management, delegation, coaching, and team-building skills.
• Ability to be flexible and creative and to manage stressful situations calmly, in an organized and professional manner.
• Willingness to float and take charge.

Nice To Haves

• BSN preferred.
• Previous inpatient psychiatric or substance-use experience preferred.
• Restraint-reduction de-escalation or crisis-intervention experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect care to patients, families, and legal guardians.
• Maintain a safe therapeutic milieu grounded in MiraVista Behavioral Health Center core principles.
• Collaborate as a member of the multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Contribute to individual treatment plans by helping develop, implement, and document appropriate goals and interventions informed by patient strengths and presenting psychiatric problems.
• Be willing to float and take charge.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed