Duties Description

Bronx Psychiatric Center (BPC), an Office of Mental Health (OMH) Joint Commission accredited facility, is recruiting Registered Nurses to join their nursing team. No previous psychiatric experience is required.

As a Registered Nurse at BPC, 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 individuals with mental illness including:

• Coordinating and providing nursing care
• Conducting nursing assessments
• Preparing, implementing, and modifying nursing care plans
• Providing health teaching, counseling, and education to individuals and families
• Implementing infection control protocols and procedures
• Observing and recording individual’s symptoms and care; reporting responses to
  
  

medications or changes in health

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.

Additional Comments

If you would like to join the BPC Nursing Team and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer a generous benefits package including:

• Competitive Salaries with Geographic Pay Differentials
• Shift Differential offered for evening & night shifts: 7% shift differential for evening shift. 10% shift differential for night shift.
• NYS medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Nurse Residency Program
• Alternate Work Schedules
• Tuition Assistance programs available to pursue advanced degrees and/or ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Board certification
• Excellent opportunities for advancement and professional growth
• Paid time off including vacation, holidays, personal, & 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 of $66,951, an Increase Hiring Rate of $9,196, Geographic Pay Differential of $35,000, and Down State Adjustment ($4,000). The posted job rate is the sum of the statutory job rate of $85,138, and Geographic Pay Differential of $35,000.

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.