Duties Description

Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center (RCPC), an Office of Mental Health (OMH) Joint Commission accredited facility, is recruiting a Registered Nurse to join their nursing team in their on-site Medical Clinic. This schedule is Monday – Friday from 7:30AM – 4:00PM, with pass days of Saturday/Sunday.

As a Registered Nurse at RCPC, you are a vital member of a multi-disciplinary team focused on providing compassionate care through patient-centered and recovery-focused mental health services to children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances including:

• Coordinating and providing nursing care
• Assisting pediatrician with patient care
• Triaging patients during clinic hours
• Scheduling and arranging patients for outside medical and dental consults
• Maintaining Vaccines for Children (VCF) requirements
• Reviewing and maintaining STAT and Critical Lab documentation
• Communicating with clinical teams and nursing department on medical treatment and clinic visits
• Ordering medical supplies and checking weekly Glucometer for crash carts
• Attending meetings and completing monthly reports
• Implementing infection control protocols and procedures
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates from outside or within State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement – Statewide (NY HELPS) program as a Registered Nurse 1 Psychiatric if they have a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.

OR

Candidates within State Service can be considered for transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous Phlebotomy experience
  
  

Additional Comments

All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including:

• NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Access to tuition assistance programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
• Paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave
• NYS Retirement programs
  
  

Background checks will be required.

Additional Comments:

Posted hiring rate includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for PS&T Grade 18 ($66951), an Increase Hiring Rate ($9,196), Geographic Pay Differential ($35,000), and Downstate Adjustment of ($4,000). The posted job rate is the sum of the statutory job rate ($85138) Geographic Pay Differential ($35,000), and Downstate Adjustment of ($4,000).

Notes:

• If you fail to maintain your license and/or registration once you are appointed, action will be taken to remove you from the position.
• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
• If appointed you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.