Joseph House Registered Nurse

What You Will Do

We are seeking a deeply empathetic individual who is dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals with serious and persistent mental illness within our residential facilities.

In this vital role, you will become an integral part of our close-knit team, committed to ensuring that each individual under our care can thrive and achieve their personal goals. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing medication training and supervising medication aides who deliver crucial residential support services.

Your duties will include meticulous monitoring of electronic documentation records and Medication Administration Records (MAR), as well as reviewing physician's orders. Additionally, you'll perform routine and as-needed nursing tasks and assessments, while also developing and maintaining comprehensive nursing care plans.

Furthermore, you'll play a crucial role in addressing medical needs promptly and efficiently, collaborating closely with our Joseph House staff to coordinate essential medical appointments. Working in tandem with the Joseph House administrator, you'll ensure that all documentation required by external entities is accurate and thorough.

What We Expect of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to help the people we serve live their best lives and bring hope to them every day. Every employee strives to fulfill our mission of empowering individuals to reach their most important goals. The registered nurse we are seeking is an individual with the following qualifications:

Attendance/Reliability: WVCW expects staff to be regularly on time and at their designated place of work as planned. Staff are expected to plan ahead for vacation and anticipated appointments. When staff need unplanned time off they communicate this to all who need to know including clients.

Communication/Collaboration/Teamwork: WVCW expects staff to consistently offer clear and timely communication, collaborate as needed, and work well within the team structure. This includes being assertive with information critical to the team and client care as well as being able to assimilate shared information promptly and accurately.

Taking Initiative/Problem Solving: WVCW expects staff to know their position, team, agency, and client needs well and be able to advocate for needs and propose solutions. Staff must also recognize when input is needed from supervisor/ senior staff and will seek it appropriately.

Quality and Accuracy of Work/Completion of Tasks/Meeting Deadlines: WVCW expects completed work to be of adequate quality and accuracy. Oversight is sought by staff as needed to ensure that standards for quality of care are met.

Your Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Administer prescribed medications, following physician's orders for all medications and/or procedures, and documents in the electronic record and eMAR.
• Monitor all aspects of medical and medication-related issues
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation and promptly report any suspected violations of resident rights or abuse by another resident or staff member as required by mandatory reporting guidelines.
• Be available to work with residents experiencing crisis situations
• Be available to be on-call (paid at a daily rate based on evening, weekend, or holiday) on a rotating basis. While on-call, you will be accessible by phone and provide responsible support, documentation and follow-up in a timely manner. This may include onsite visits.
• Be knowledgeable about personnel policies, OARs on Residential Treatment Facilities and Community Nursing, and any other applicable rules or standards of pertinent regulatory agencies
• Establish and maintain a positive working team environment with all facility staff and community partners, and treat everyone with dignity and respect
• Participate fully in team meetings, training, and one-to-one supervision
• Remain alert and provide direct line-of-sight monitoring of residents as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Your Team

At Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness, we believe a supportive, caring, loved-filled work environment is essential to our mission work. We know this work is challenging at times and extremely rewarding at other times. Due to this, leadership helps you grow in your career and supports you in reaching your full potential. We value life outside of work and family time with progressive benefits and time off. We are here for you so you can be there for the community we serve. Additionally, you will work for an organization that encourages out-of-the-box thinking so we can be innovative in our approach to high-quality mental, behavioral, and developmental disability care.

What We Expect of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to help the people we serve live their best lives and bring hope to them every day. Every employee strives to fulfill our mission of empowering individuals to reach their most important goals. The qualified Registered Nurse we are seeking is an individual with the following qualifications:

Required

• Current and unencumbered Registered Nursing license in the State of Oregon
• A valid driver's license
• Ability to pass a criminal background check
• Must be regularly available for work as scheduled

Preferred

• Experience working in community nursing
• Experience working in behavioral health

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy, use independent nursing judgment, and make nursing decisions
• Ability to prioritize and manage time effectively
• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral formats, including the ability to complete objective, accurate documentation in a timely, consistent manner
• Ability to interact with individuals of various backgrounds, education levels, and socio-economic status
• Must have basic computer skills including the ability to document in an electronic medical record, use electronic time tracking, and the ability to use Google Drive and email
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, comprehend laws, regulations, and policies, and the ability to follow such laws, regulations, and policies and report when they are being violated

The Location

The Joseph House is a five-bed residential treatment home in Joseph, Oregon that serves individuals with both physical and severe and persistent mental health issues. This home provides 24/7 care, room and board, medication management, nursing care, skills training, and activity therapy. This will be your primary working location.

Some of the Vast Rewards for Working Here

As we work to empower individuals to reach their most important goals, we also work to support our team in reaching their full potential both personally and professionally.

• Full support and career resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey
• A supportive, caring atmosphere from leadership and co-workers who value each individual's unique perspective and expertise in providing whole-person care and are encouraged to bring their ideas and solutions to the table so we can act collectively
• Generous, Progressive Benefit Plan - consisting of medical, dental, vision, retirement, life flight membership, life insurance, vacation, and sick leave - with compensation and benefits rated as one of the best for a community mental health program.
  • View our full benefits here

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For a career where your passion and purpose come together. Join us today.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with disabilities to perform the essential function.

Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness is an equal-opportunity employer.