Registered Nurse - Psychiatric

Registered Nurse - Psychiatric

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This recruitment has been reopened for additional applicants and will remain open until filled. If you have already applied for recruitment #557-2025-2, you do not need to reapply. New applicants are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible as this recruitment may close at any time without further notice.

Marion County Adult Behavioral Health is seeking a skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse to join our fast‑paced outpatient team. This position is perfect for someone who is passionate about psychiatric nursing and wants to make a meaningful difference in their community. In this role, you will provide direct nursing care to adults living with serious mental illness, some of whom also experience co‑occurring substance use disorders.

The position is Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Provides nursing services in behavioral health programs; including assessment and care of clients as part of the treatment plan; evaluates medication effectiveness and other health care needs.

Works under the supervision of a Health Clinical Supervisor or Medical Director; may work under the lead direction of a Behavioral Health Nurse Senior who assigns duties, establishes goals and reviews results.

Supervision of other employees is not a responsibility of positions in this classification.

• Complete nursing assessments (using the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale), take vitals, and administer intramuscular medications.
• Assist with day‑to‑day management of a patient's medication regime; provide education to patients regarding compliance with the prescribed regime; fill pill boxes; locate pharmacy services; and assist in managing symptoms that do not require a prescriber's immediate attention.
• Provide emotional support, compassion, and de‑escalation (when necessary) to patients/guardians/relatives.
• Establish a working relationship; collect/confirm brief demographic information; obtain brief past medical history; document brief description of the patient's illness; identify the chief complaint and most serious symptom; select the correct protocol; triage the patient into an appropriate disposition; provide care advice based on the symptoms; give call‑back instructions; reassure the patient that you are there to help.
• Perform telephonic triage and respond appropriately to callers who may present with emergencies, varying levels of risk of harm to self/others, varying levels of distress, diverse presenting problems; and administer brief mental status exams.
• Instruct, prompt, guide, remind, and/or educate patients, families, and/or significant others regarding medication usage, side effects, overdose precautions, and self‑administration training.

• Assessing service needs (patient history, identifying patient needs, completing required documents, gathering information from other sources).
• Treatment/service planning (specifying goals and actions to address patient needs, ensuring patient participation, identifying a course of action).
• Referral and related activities to obtain needed services (arranging initial appointments for patient with service providers/informing patients of available services; providing addresses and telephone numbers of agencies providing services; working with a patient/service provider to secure access to services, contacting agencies for appointments/services after initial referral process).
• Monitoring and follow‑up (contacting patients/others to ensure patient is following the agreed upon treatment/service plan and monitoring progress and impact of plan).

• Create and maintain timely documentation that is clear, accurate, professional, and complete; prepare, organize, and manage information/data/records pertinent to nursing and related services.
• Perform other duties as assigned such as cross‑train in the Medication Assisted Treatment dispensary and provide occasional back‑up coverage as needed.
• Response Level 2:
  In the event of an emergency, employee makes a…