Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses person’s served care needs, develops a plan of care in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, and continually reassesses plan of care according to person’s served care needs.
• In collaboration with the physician, provides/coordinates nursing care to individuals and groups of person’s served.
• Assists in the teaching of persons’ served families, and provides milieu management. Communicates with and educates persons’ served families/significant others in discharge/after care planning needs.
• Provides a safe and secure environment for persons served and staff in both individual and group settings.
• Responsible for documenting, reporting, and verifying all necessary information according to established policies and procedures.
• Responsible to monitor for and report to the physician(s) any potential risk to person’s served safety that could lead to an adverse outcome.
• Creates a customer/client friendly environment by following quality improvement standards, maintaining professionalism, initiating and maintaining positive relationships with departments/programs, co-workers and external customers.
• Provides care in various clinical settings with diverse person’s served populations. Identifies specific person’s served needs and implements person’s served centered, compassionate care.
• Functions as a clinical leader, delegating/coordinating staff assignments and promoting staff development.
• Responsible for the utilization and continued review of patient care protocols, standards of practice, and standards of care. Gives input into process for improvement.
• May be responsible in training direct care staff.
• May be indirectly responsible for oversight of medication and physical health activities in a program.
• May be responsible for scheduling, staffing, and obtaining pre-authorizations.
• Responsible to role model the mission and values of the organization, presenting a professional image that is projected in appearance, attitudes and behaviors, time management and communication skills. Provides spiritual, emotional, social, mental and physical support to patients.
• In the community residential setting required to support and promote a recovery focused environment and person-centered approach within the program.
• Commitment to demonstrating the Hospital and Residential Services Model of Care in hospital and residential areas.
• Must maintain annual training and demonstrate competency in the required programmatic training.