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Form of workRegistered Nurse (RN)- Team Services
You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.
Job Scope: Act as Registered Nurse (RN) as a team member providing intensive, holistic and recovery-oriented behavioral health and nurse care management services to persons living with serious and persistent mental illness who live independently in the community. Provide medication management, reconciliation, psychoeducation, and coordinate physicalhealth services. CST (Community Support Team) and ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) team members provide and coordinate a range of individual treatment services that target assessed areas of functional impairment and promote independence through the development and use of natural community supports. Treatment services are delivered at flexible times that meet consumers’ needs and in a variety of settings including an individual’s home, hospital, emergency room, and other medical providers.
Essential Functions:
- Clinical Responsibilities
- Assigned as Registered Nurse as an integrated team member on a CST (Community Support Team) or ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) team
- Coordinate and attend healthcare appointments for individuals receiving Team Services.
- Provide consultation and care coordination with outside medical providers and internal psychiatrist, APN, and RN staff.
- Provide basic health screenings, psychoeducation and coaching to individuals with serious and persistent mental illness around medications, chronic medical conditions, healthy lifestyle behaviors, and mental illness diagnoses and symptoms.
- Provide education and guidance to coworkers related to the healthcare needs of individuals served by the assigned team.
- Coordinate and facilitate medication refills, medication injections, medical and insurance authorizations, and other case management healthcare needs.
- Receive, review, and file lab reports and alert all physicians involved in care of results and any abnormal findings that need to be addressed.
- Administer medications, complete medication reconciliation, pack medications for members, and recommend medication witnessing schedule.
- Utilize a variety of person-centered modalities including motivational interviewing to build rapport and supply a solid, consistent presence in the lives of individuals we serve.
- Assessment, service planning, crisis stabilization, and prevention planning.
- Provide skill development and training for social skills and activities of daily living and independent activities of daily living to participants.
- Assist with discharge planning and transition for individuals moving from nursing facilities, hospitals, and other higher levels of support.
- Provide referrals and information regarding resources to increase support and stabilization consistent with assessed needs and consumer’s desired outcomes.
- Provide support to clients who are homeless or residing in temporary housing to locate permanent housing as part of their comprehensive treatment plan
- Develop and lead/co-lead illness education and skill development groups
- Meet regularly with Team members to integrate care provision and share clinical responsibilities so that adequate coverage is available to clients at all times
- Coordinate with Comprehensive Transition Team and Front Door Team members to support transitions to more independent living
- Routinely consult with other KYC Team members including front door, comprehensive transition team, vocational, psychosocial rehabilitation, substance use, outpatient therapy, and psychiatry to address specific client related clinical issues and coordinate care strategies
- Promote opportunities for clients to build natural systems of support within their communities through exposure to recreational, spiritual, educational, vocational, volunteer and civic activities
- Opportunity to participate with other Team members in regular 24/7 on-call crisis and stabilization coverage [optional]
- Administrative and Performance Requirements
- Work with Team Supervisor, Program Assistant, and Team members to assess, plan, and participate in provision of services
- Meet productivity target estimated at 40-45% billable service
- Participate in supervision as directed and seek additional clinical and program consultation as needed
- Participate in All Staff meetings, Department meetings, Team meetings, and other staff meetings and trainings as directed by supervisor
- Interpret and communicate, at the service delivery level, Center policies and procedures
- Complete all clinical documentation and required reports in an accurate and timely manner following KYC policies
- Meet agency quality and compliance standards
Travel Requirements
- Will be required to drive daily for meetings to multiple KYC office locations (Mt Prospect, Elk Grove, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, etc) and/or visits to various client residences in the Northwest suburbs.
- Will work in varied residential environments based on assigned caseload.
Education, Experience and Other Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) with current Illinois License
- Preferred 6 months nursing experience working with individuals with serious and persistent mental illness
- BSN degree preferred, AAS degree with mental health or clinic experience may be considered
- Preferred exposure to working in non-traditional treatment environments i.e.in-home, residential, hospital, nursing facility, and community settings
- Computer and smartphone proficiency, working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, team communication platforms (ex Microsoft Teams), Internet skills, and smartphone applications and messaging
- Applicant must have a valid IL Driver’s License and daily access to a well maintained/insured vehicle
Schedule/Timekeeping
- Exempt, Full-Time, 37.5 hour work week
- Monday-Friday business hours
- Optional participation in rotating on-call schedule to ensure 24/7 coverage
Kenneth Young Center offers a robust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market and offers all full-time employees the following:
- 403(b) plan with organizational matching
- Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois - BCBS)
- Dental (BCBS), and Vision Insurance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
- Long Term and Short Term Disability (BCBS), no cost to employee
- Flexible Spending Account (with annual rollover)
- Basic life insurance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for additional voluntary coverage for self, spouse, or dependents (BCBS)
- Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
- Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
- Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
To further promote an active and healthy work/ life balance, KYC also offers a generous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.
- 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increases based on seniority)
- 8 Paid Organization-Wide Holidays
- 3 Personal Floating Holidays annually
Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
