Telecare - Riverside, CA
posted 18 days ago
- Mid Level
Riverside, CA
Hospitals
About the position
Telecare's mission is to deliver excellent and effective behavioral health services that engage individuals in recovering their health, hopes, and dreams. Telecare continues to advance cultural diversity, humility, equity, and inclusion at all levels of our organization by hiring mental health peers, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans, and all belief systems. As part of the Telecare family, the Riverside County Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC) is licensed as a 79-bed sub-acute residential program located in Riverside, CA. The program provides longer-term mental health recovery services 24/7/365 within a supportive, structured, and secure inpatient environment designed to help clients prepare to move to the community and/or lower levels of care.
Responsibilities
- Implements and supervises the overall direct nursing care provided by the nursing department on their designated shift.
- Provides program planning development, review and evaluation of clinical and administrative activities.
- Uses critical thinking and independent judgement to direct, coordinate and oversee the nursing and other health care services of a program to clients across the age spectrum and/or targeted populations.
- Supervises an assigned multidisciplinary team including professional, para-professional support staff, nursing students and interns.
- Assigns direct report employees to work with clients according to client needs and the skills and strengths of individual team members.
- Applies management practices that include empowerment of staff and provision of clear expectations regarding duties assigned to employees.
- Promotes and maintains harmonious and effective relationships and communications within the department and with other departments.
- Provides functional and administrative supervision for assigned professional, para-professional, support staff, nursing students or interns.
- Exercises independent judgment and discretion to provide day-to-day supervision of designated staff members.
- Provides clinical assistance/oversight of staff performing case management and care coordination.
- Investigates, gathers data and responds to issues and grievances; escalates matters as appropriate.
- Works with other shifts to assure accurate and complete documentation in the medical record and timely referral to the attending physician.
- May need to be available on a 24-hour basis in the event of an emergency.
- May collaborate with the other administrative staff in strategic planning activities.
- Supports the recruitment, selection and on-boarding of nursing department employees.
- Consults with the DON regarding staffing and methods of improving the delivery of services.
- Coordinates the efforts of the Nursing Department with other departments.
- Assumes charge or shift lead responsibility contingent upon program structure and needs.
- Collects data relevant to the care of members served; develops and implements nursing care plans.
- Adheres to medication management policies and procedures.
- Receives and presents change of shift reports, as assigned.
- Documents the progress of members served toward their Recovery Plan goals.
- Assists with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior.
Requirements
- Two (2) years of psychiatric direct care nursing experience and at least two (2) years of experience in a supervisory role.
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and current licensure as a Registered Nurse by the State of California.
- Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification.
Nice-to-haves
- Current knowledge of psychiatric illnesses, regulatory requirements regarding the delivery of health care to persons with mental illness, and infection control requirements.
Benefits
- Expected starting wage range is $50.96 - $62.96.
- Telecare applies geographic differentials to its pay ranges.
