Float Psych RN - Evening (3p-11:30p)

Position Details:

Job Title: RN Psych
Location: Holyoke, MA
Shift: Full-time 40 Hours (8 hour shifts) - includes every other weekend
Guaranteed Hours: 40 per week
Assignment Duration: 13 weeks

Pay Package:
Weekly Gross: $2800/week
Lodging & Meals (Non-Taxable): $1400/week
Hourly (Taxable): $35/hour ($1400/week)

One year of adult and adolescent inpatient psych experience required
Must be willing to float and take charge. (No multiplier for charge)

Responsibilities:

• The Registered Nurse (RN) is an active participant in the health care team who provides direct and indirect care to patients/families/legal guardians.
• The Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for maintaining a safe therapeutic milieu
• grounded in TaraVista Behavioral Health Center core principles.
• The Registered Nurse (RN) works collaboratively as a member of the multi-disciplinary treatment team and contributes to each patient's individual treatment plan by helping develop, implement, and document appropriate goals and interventions, informed by patient strengths and presenting psychiatric problems.

Qualifications:
Education:

• RN license within the State of Massachusetts required; BSN preferred.

Experience:

• Previous psychiatric / substance inpatient experience preferred. CPR certification required. Restraint Reduction de-escalation /crisis intervention experience preferred.

Skills:

• The successful candidate will demonstrate ability to use critical thinking to make decisions and solve problems; have an advanced level knowledge of Behavior Health and Substance Abuse treatment modalities; applies nursing process from a Trauma Informed Recovery model of care; ability to develop a therapeutic relationship while maintaining professional boundaries; effective oral and written communication; sufficient typing and computer skills to facilitate use of Electronic Medical Record; crisis management, time management, delegating, coaching and team building skills; and be flexible, creative and able to manage stressful situations in a calm, organized and professional manner