Registered Nurse (Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program)

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse (Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program)
• Focus: Patient-centered, recovery-oriented care for individuals with substance use disorder and/or mental health conditions

Description

Provide nursing care using a recovery-oriented, patient-centered approach for residents in a residential rehabilitation/domiciliary setting. Facilitate shift reports, warm hand-offs, and nurse-led psychoeducational groups while using therapeutic communication and de-escalation techniques. Oversee safe medication management, collaborate with mental health interdisciplinary teams, document assessments and risk screens, and support patient safety and emergency response.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate shift reports, warm hand-offs, and group content
• Lead nurse-led psychoeducational groups
• Use therapeutic communication, de-escalation techniques, and recovery-oriented language
• Provide oversight for patient safe medication management
• Work with and lead mental health interdisciplinary teams
• Promote critical thinking
• Participate in patient safety and environment of care rounds
• Direct team response to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies
• Report safety concerns and assist in resolving them
• Document nursing assessments, risk screens, measurement-based care tools, nursing plan of care, and safety rounds
• Maintain professional boundaries and provide constructive feedback to peers

Benefits

• Competitive salary and potential performance awards
• Paid time off: ~50 days/year (annual leave, sick leave, and paid federal holidays)
• Federal pension with vesting and federal 401(k) with up to 5% employer contributions
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance options
• Insurance coverage can often be carried into retirement
• Shiftwork schedule