Registered Nurse - Domiciliary Mental Health RRTP

Veterans Health Administration • Danville, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Domiciliary Mental Health Registered Nurse (RN) provides and leads competent, evidence-based, patient-centered, and recovery-oriented care for assigned patients, including people living with substance use disorders and/or mental health conditions. The RN supports nursing education, orientation, competency development, and quality-improvement and outcomes-utilization consultation. The position includes participation in interdisciplinary treatment and patient-safety activities, responding to patient needs and emergencies, and helping maintain a safe, supportive environment for patients and healthcare professionals.

The work schedule is 05:45–18:15, with rotating weekends and holidays. Telework is not available, and this is not a virtual position. Relocation or recruitment incentives may be authorized. The position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.

Requirements

• Proficiency in basic written and spoken English.
• Graduate of an appropriately accredited school of professional nursing, or otherwise meet the stated education provisions for nursing graduates and foreign nursing education.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted professional nurse registration in a U.S. state, territory, or commonwealth, or the District of Columbia; a temporary Graduate Nurse Technician appointment may be available to qualifying candidates pursuing licensure.
• Meet the applicable education and experience criteria for the assigned Nurse grade and level.
• U.S. citizenship, subject to the stated VA policy exception for non-citizens when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
• Complete required drug screening, background/security investigation, onboarding, identification verification, and pre-employment physical evaluation; refusal of required drug testing results in denial of employment.
• Register for Selective Service if a male born after December 31, 1959.
• Participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program.
• Complete all application requirements identified in the announcement’s Required Documents section.
• Submit transcripts when education is used to qualify; foreign education requires the specified equivalency documentation.

Nice To Haves

• Mental health and substance use experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide and lead competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients.
• Assist in directing nursing education, orientation, and competency activities.
• Provide quality-improvement and outcomes-utilization consultation.
• Provide patient-centered, recovery-oriented care while maintaining self-awareness when caring for patients with substance use and/or mental health conditions.
• Facilitate shift reports, warm hand-offs, and nurse-led psychoeducational groups.
• Use therapeutic communication and de-escalation techniques, and recovery-oriented language.
• Oversee the patient safe medication management program.
• Participate in the mental health interdisciplinary treatment team and patient-safety and environment-of-care rounds.
• Respond to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies as directed.
• Report safety concerns and document nursing assessments, risk screens, nursing plans of care, and safety and environment-of-care rounds according to facility policy.
• Maintain professional boundaries and act in the best interest of patients.
• Foster a safe and supportive environment conducive to healthcare professionals’ development.
• Share knowledge with colleagues to support safe, quality nursing care.
• Question clinical practices to support evidence-based care.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, and potential performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year: 26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, and 11 paid Federal holidays.
• Traditional federal pension with five-year vesting.
• Federal 401(k), with VA contributions of up to 5%.
• Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long-term care insurance; many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement.

What This Job Offers

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