Nurse - Residential - Transitional Aged Youth

Job Code:12552

Location:Saco 04072

Department:Transitional Age Youth - Saco

FT/PT Status:Part Time

Summary:

Sweetser is opening a brand new Transitional Aged Youth program right on our Saco Campus! Come join our new Team!

$2,000 Sign-on Bonus!

Participate in a dynamic team providing support to individuals with mental illness. Provide for a positive environment to foster the development of independent living skills while monitoring and role modeling health and safety. Within the framework of recovery and resiliency, promotes and restores patient's health by providing health care services in a competent manner consistent with parameters of training and licensure.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide quality care by assuming primary nursing responsibility for the care of individuals.

• Coordinates with individuals medical and psychiatric providers around care and provides transport as needed.

• Implements orders for care, including medication orders via written and oral communication with staff, using the organization’s electronic health record.

• Ensures medication accuracy by ordering, labeling, packaging, distributing and checking that medications ordered by the physician are administered.

• Supports individuals in maintaining proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles through education and role modeling.

• Helps residents to their medical appointments by transporting as needed.

• Provides training and support to staff, as needed.

• Follows policies and procedures for dispensing psychotropic medications by preparing the written consent forms.

• Assures current and accurate medical records by maintaining an accurate computer database and consistently charting significant health related interactions.

EDUCATION:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

• Associates degree level RN or better.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:

• Current RN license in the State of Maine.

• CPR Certified.

• Valid state driver’s license.

EXPERIENCE:

• One (1) year clinical nursing experience.

• Psychiatric nursing experience, preferred.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Psychotropic medication training.

• General knowledge about mental illness.