ResCare Community Living, a part of the Sevita family, provides quality services that empower individuals, enhance independence, and help people live well. Since 1974, we’ve supported individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live more independently at home and in their community. With our dedicated team and experienced staff, we provide person-centered services that help people build skills, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential.
SUMMARY
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. Primary duties include 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.*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.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.
- 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.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Minimum Knowledge and Skills required for the Job
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job.
Education and Experience:
- 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.
Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:
- All staff are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.
Other Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to problem-solve.
- Communicate skills, orally, and in writing.
- Relationship management skills.
- Ability to work alone.
Other Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
- Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.
We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.
As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
