Behavioral Health Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Current RN NP license and CPR.
• Experience working with clients and staff from diverse socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Able to stand, stoop, bend, squat and reach for purpose of performing job duties such as handling materials stocked on shelves, filing, lifting and assisting in emergency situations.
• Duties may require occasional use of stool or small ladder.
• Routinely lift and move items weighing up to ten pounds and occasionally up to twenty-five pounds; is expected to ask for assistance and use a dolly or cart for any heavy items.
• Able to move about the facility.
• Ability to sit at desk, use keyboard and physically perform job duties.
• Must have valid California driver’s license and liability insurance if driving personal vehicle on BHS business.
• Vision, hearing, manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination must be adequate for performance of job duties.
• Speech must be clear.
• Good hearing for face-to-face and telephone contact and communication.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual ability helpful.

Responsibilities

• Provides medical care to indigent primary care patients.
• Provides consultation to the nurses and clinical staff.
• Consults with the medical director regarding work performance of nurse practitioners and nurses.
• Consults training or assist in training of medical students, interns, residents, nurse practitioners and other related health professionals.
• Coordinates medical care of assigned patients.
• Consults with other staff physicians and para-medical personnel regarding medical management of patients and quality of medical and diagnostic work performed.
• Confers with medical director on management issues.
• Participates in medical and services utilization audits, peer review and quality assurance activities.