Our Mission:

Since 1967, Odyssey House has gone beyond helping individuals beat drugs and alcohol. We help rebuild lives. There’s more to recovery than just getting clean. We help individuals get healthy again, too, with medical and dental care, fitness programs, support for your mental health and more. Individuals can stay with their children while in treatment, while learning new life skills, so they can stay together and repair other broken relationships in their lives. We provide educational and work skill trainings, outpatient services and available housing assistance, so individuals can step back into real life with a real future.

If that sounds different than other treatment programs, you’re right. Because Odyssey is where recovery gets real.

In addition to competitive salaries, Odyssey House offers our Nurse's:

• A 35-hour work week (as opposed to a 40-hour work week)
• Vacation Plan and Holiday Schedule
• Life Insurance
• Medical Insurance (Two Plans)
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Additional Insurance Coverages (hospitalization, accidental, critical illness coverage)
• Long-Term & Short-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account/Health Reimbursement Account
• 403(b) Plan
• Corporate Counseling Associates (CCA) EAP benefit
• Ability Assist Counseling Services (through The Hartford)
• Commuter Benefits
• Educational Assistance Programs
• Special shopping discounts through ADP Marketplace and PlumBenefits
• RUFit?! Fitness Program
• Legal Assistance through ARAG
• Optum Financial Service through ConnectYourCare
• Benefit Advocacy Center through Gallagher

MAJOR FUNCTIONS:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for overseeing access to medication, supporting consumer adherence, coordinating healthcare services and conducting consumer triage.

SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Train lay-staff in procedures for overseeing consumer access to medication and assesses competency through direct observation.
• Conduct regularly scheduled quality assurance reviews to ensure that access to medication provided by lay-staff complies with all regulatory requirements, including those set forth in OASAS LSB 2012-04 and NYS DOH requirements for institutional dispensers of controlled substances.
• Ensure that over-the-counter medication access complies with providers standing orders.
• Assure that adequate provisions are in place for access to medication during passes and overnight leaves.
• Assure proper storage of controlled and non-controlled substances.
• Assure timely accurate transmission of medication orders to the pharmacy and reconciles medication deliveries.
• Assess consumer suitability for self-administration without oversight and assures accurate recording of capacity testing for self administration without oversight in the clinical record.
• Conduct direct consumer orientation to healthcare services.
• Provide direct consumer access to medication and documents appropriately in medication administration record (MAR) and controlled substances records, as applicable, during assigned shifts.
• Conduct sick call/triage and medical evaluation during assigned shifts.
• Coordinate medical services among behavioral staff, co-located healthcare providers and collateral healthcare providers.
• Monitor consumer adherence and communicates regularly with behavioral staff regarding residents who are non-adherent.
• Assure that delivery of service by collateral healthcare providers is documented in the clinical record.
• Attend multi-disciplinary case conference as scheduled by supervisor.
• Advise prescribers when there are no refill orders left on maintenance medications.
• Continuously review medications to remove expired or redundant medications.
• Ensure timely and appropriate disposal of expired and discontinued medications and maintains documentation of these activities.
• Attend all required in-service training seminars and performs other duties as required.
• Other relevant duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION/TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Current NYS Registered Professional Nurse
• In good standing with New York State Department of Education Professional Licensing Board and without any outstanding malpractice judgments.
• Experience working in sub-acute residential care setting preferred.
• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited nursing program preferred.
• Proficiency with computer operation (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and proprietary databases).
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule including weekends and evening when needed.

Odyssey House is an equal opportunity employer maintaining a non-discriminatory policy on hiring of its personnel. Odyssey House, and its operational divisions, will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or citizen status in all employment decisions including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, training, rate of pay or other forms of compensation, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.