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Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN). The RN promotes the health and well-being to Nexus Family Healing residents by providing client-centered health care services, in accordance with Nexus Family Healing policies, procedures, and protocols.  

Our RN role also offers perks of working in a well-established youth residential setting, including meaningful and impactful work with an adolescent clientele, more consistent hours, as well as lighter triage responsibilities, with more focus on medication administration. Most of all, you can join a team that truly cares! Apply today!

Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit with over 50 years of experience restoring hope for children and families through mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment. At Nexus Family Healing in Manteno, IL, youth in residential care attend Safe Harbor School, an accredited special education program for grades 6–12, offering individualized curricula with transferable credits upon discharge.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Work Schedule & Salary:

• Schedule: Full Time, 40 hours per week
• Pay rate: $35 - $40 per hour
• Onsite: 101 N Bramble St., Manteno, IL 60950

Benefits:

• Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401k match
• NEW – Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• NEW – Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
• NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion
• And much more!

Position Summary: The Nurse (RN) promotes the health and well-being to Nexus Family Healing residents by providing client-centered health care services, in accordance with Nexus Family Healing policies, procedures, and protocols. 

Primary responsibilities:

1. Resident Medical Care

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams regarding medical aspects of client admissions.  
• Communicates medical concerns and coordinates necessary follow-up appointments, and/or referrals with interdisciplinary teams both internally and externally. 
• Collects and reviews clients’ medical data and ensures that medical records are current and accurate.  
• Assesses nursing implications of all data pertaining to the resident and determines the need to communicate with the physician.  
• Monitors acute and chronic medical conditions of clients; provides treatment or consultation as needed.  
• In emergency situations, gather relevant information and assess client status. Provide appropriate care and/or treatment, direct others as necessary, and collaborate referral to a higher-level of care if appropriate. 

 2. Treatment Team Collaboration

• Serves as a resource to staff and other interdisciplinary teams regarding client medical concerns.  
• Collaborates with the treatment staff to develop individual client treatment plans.  

 3. Implement, monitor, and coordinate medication administration to clients

• Verify, count, and administer medications to residents. 
• Educates clients on medication side effects, adverse effects, and drug interactions. 
• Monitors clients daily for side effects, adverse effects, and/or drug interactions. 
• Ensures client prescriptions are filled, and the appropriate amount is maintained through each client’s stay within the residential milieu. 
• Monitors medication logbooks for completion and accuracy. 

 4. Staff Meetings & Required Training

• Completes all required trainings that are department/role specific & facility-wide requirements. 
• Maintains and stay up to date with trainings and certifications (i.e., online trainings, internal and external inperson trainings, CPR certification, nursing license, first aid and safety, medication administration, and infection control etc. 
• Participates in internal training opportunities with community partners. 

 5. Client Confidentiality

• Ensures client information remains confidential and compliant with Nexus policies involving client privacy, informed consent and confidentiality standards for clients and their families.

 Required Education and Licensure:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. 
• Valid Registered Nurse License. 
• 1 + year related nursing experience  
• First Aid/CPR/Infection Control certification 
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Home Office driving requirements 
• Must successfully pass an IL DCFS criminal background check.
• Successfully participate in and complete a three-part Therapeutic Crisis Intervention exam and training 
• Must have the ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals or communities and understand their unique needs and challenges.
• Must be open to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, considering factors such as language, traditions, and values. 

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 1+ year related nursing experience in a residential setting.  

ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:

• Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches. 
• Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern. 
• Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly. 
• Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate. 
• Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards. 

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:  At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions will be focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.  

Expected Hours of Work:  Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, with the expectation to work specific schedules and hours as identified and communicated by management. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. On-call rotation may be required as applicable.    

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!