Advance Practice Registered Nurse

Overview

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Requisition . Salary Range: $90.00 to $100.00 hourly. River Valley Counseling Center, Inc. (RVCC) is hiring a Psychiatric Advanced Practice Registered Nurse.

At River Valley Counseling Center, Inc. (RVCC), our mission is to improve the health and well-being of every person in our community. We provide expert, compassionate care grounded in honesty, respect, and dignity. Through collaboration, innovation, and education, we inspire hope and empower positive change in those we serve. We are committed to being responsible stewards of our resources, ensuring efficient and cost-effective care for all.

This role involves providing clinically competent, coordinated care that respects each client’s dignity, autonomy, and independent decision-making. It includes completing timely and accurate documentation, incorporating comprehensive, age-appropriate assessments that address biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, and educational needs to support holistic and individualized client care.

• Coordinate and provide client care in a manner that respects the client’s dignity, autonomy, and independent decision-making.
• Initiate and/or complete required documentation in a timely, systematic, and accurate manner, including age-related assessment of biophysical, psycho-social, environmental, self-care, age-specific, and educational factors.
• Participate actively in the quality improvement process and incorporate quality improvement findings into proactive clinical care and coordination of client care within the department.
• Be involved in administrative meetings as a representative of the medical staff.
• Develop, initiate, or assist in developing treatment plans for each assigned client within appropriate time frames, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Provide direct clinical services to children and adolescents, demonstrating competence in developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment planning, and intervention, and collaborating with families, caregivers, and multidisciplinary team members.

Required:

• Education Level — Master of Science in Nursing
• Experience — Five or more years’ experience as a clinical nurse specialist; experience working with chronically mentally ill populations required
• Licensing — Current DEA Controlled Substance Registration; current Controlled Substance Registration within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Certification — Current certification as a Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Certification
• Skills/Abilities — Excellent verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal skills; crisis intervention skills; organizational skills; attention to detail; computer skills; good customer relations skills; knowledge of legal and ethical issues pertaining to the profession

Preferred:

• Experience or desire to work with pediatric patients
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) ability a plus

Salary Range: $90-$100 per hour. Salary ranges are based on years of experience, level of education, specialty and licensure/certifications.

Additional Compensation — For advanced education for qualifying positions.

• A supportive, mission-driven work environment
• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education
• Collaboration with a compassionate, multidisciplinary team
• The chance to make a real difference in our communities
• Generous time off benefits for eligible positions
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Excellent and competitive insurance including health, vision, dental and pet insurance
• Mileage reimbursement
• 403(b) match
• CEU reimbursement
• Retention payments offered to licensed clinicians