Behavioral Health Nurse

Job Description

Exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team providing clinical care in the community to adults with mental health and substance use diagnoses! The Behavioral Health Nurse serves as the medical lead for the team in the Adult Community Clinical Services (ACCS) program, which works with over 400 individuals. The ACCS team is made up of a variety of professionals with a broad range of skills and experience, including nurses, mental health clinicians, peer specialists, substance use clinicians and direct care staff who are trained in and implement strength-based and recovery-focused interventions to work with our population. Be a part of a dynamic program that provides support and encouragement to adults with chronic mental illness so that they can live their best lives!

Your Role as a Behavioral Health Nurse:

The ACCS Registered Nurse is responsible for ensuring that each client receives their prescribed medical regime as well as advocating and ensuring the health and safety of each individual served in the program. Good communication skills are required to relay information to program staff through in-services, trainings and supervision. In addition, the RN participates on the Recovery Planning Team as well as monitors and evaluates IAP service delivery.

Why work as a Behavioral Health RN:

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes Tufts Health insurance, being effective from the 1st of the month following your start date.
• Generous paid time off package to make sure our employees have work life balance
• Free clinical trainings that count toward CEUs
• Nurses work on a multi-disciplinary, collaborative team that includes master's level clinicians, substance use clinicians, and peers with lived experience, while also having the ability to independently create your work schedule
• We are a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program!

About Aspire Health Alliance

Since 1926, Aspire Health Alliance has been building hope and changing lives for children with developmental disabilities, and children, teens and adults living with mental illness. Today, we have nearly 800 employees based in Braintree, Quincy, Marshfield, and Plymouth, and our non-profit early intervention and mental health treatment and recovery programs reach 16,000 people from Boston throughout the South Shore and Southeastern Massachusetts.

Aspire Health Alliance recognizes that attracting and retaining exceptional staff is the key to providing excellent care for our clients. Aspire Health Alliance remains committed to the development and training of our future clinicians, to staff development and to community training around behavioral health.

Aspire Health Alliance is committed to and passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate, support and promote diversity of thought, culture, and backgrounds. As an employer committed to equal opportunity, we base all employment decisions on each individual's capabilities and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetics, or any other protected characteristic. Aspire Health Alliance strives to fully reflect the clients and communities we serve and believes that a diversity of interests and cultures leads to a stronger and more innovative organization.

Required Skills

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Knowledge and experience in recovery based services preferred.
• Valid driver's license. safe driving record, and access to personal vehicle to provide occasional transportation of consumers

Required Experience

• Current valid MA Registered Nurse licensure.
• Minimum of four years of experience working with individuals with mental illness.
• Minimum of two years of experience in interdisciplinary collaboration.

Aspire Health Alliance is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.