Registered Nurse 2 (Community)

Duties Description

• Participates in plans to consider moving individuals to Family Care by ensuring that health needs can be adequately addressed in a particular home.
• Reviews the individual's medication regimen.
• Completes Nursing Assessment.
• Provide technical assistance using knowledge and nursing skills to enable FC providers, families, and Service Coordinators to access and/or provide appropriate medical care, obtain equipment, etc. in the community.
• Visits Family Care home on no less than a quarterly basis to ensure health needs are being met.
• Visits and/or interfaces with community hospital staff on a weekly basis when Family Care individual is hospitalized.
• Reviews health care documentation: physical examinations, etc. to ensure routine and/or specialized health services are provided.
• Assist in training Family Care providers in medication administration and record keeping.
• Assist team members in clarification of medical procedures, preventive health care, and assist with obtaining appropriate measures for individual in crisis and emergency situations.
• Assist with obtaining consents from family members and through the Court Consent procedure.
• Assist in planning for hospital discharges; attend discharge planning meeting to assist the team.
• Provide on-site visits as required pertaining to individuals and alleged incidents.
• Will participate in Individual Receiving Services move from one home to another.
• Participate in special assignments as required
  
  

The candidate will clinically oversee a cluster of nurses and be responsible for multiple sites and may function as a RN1 as needed.

• Ensure nursing case management of multiple locations; caseload based on medical acuity.
• Oversee and supervise RNs and LPNs who will supervise the AMAP staff in providing Direct Support Assistants health care per the nurse Act Exemption.
• Ensure all medical follow-up is done timely.
  
  

Responsible for in-service on nursing plans and other staff development and oversight as required, including medication administration, which are vital activities to regular operations.

• Engage in orientation and mentoring of new RNs and LPNs.
• Complete evaluations.
• Monitor/Complete nursing audit for the cluster, work closely with the Nursing Supervisor / Director of Nursing and Team to review findings, and develop a plan of correction.
  
  

Monitors individuals’ medical/health needs and services.

• Interacts with primary medical specialists, hospitals, and various clinical staff as necessary.
• Advocate for individuals’ health care needs.
• Maintains ongoing communication with med liaison/designee.
• Provides support to site staff in maintaining health services for the individuals.
• Utilizes appropriate reporting mechanisms/chain of command in responding to individual and/or staff issues.
• Responds to emergency requests as soon as possible (within and outside caseload).
• Completes nursing assessments and related documentation via elect, e.g., RN Notes, nursing logbook, etc., thoroughly and within established time frames.
• Provides individual-specific nursing interventions.
• Responds to staff questions regarding individual-specific medical/nursing issues.
• PONS is current (for caseload) and signed by the staff. All PONS are maintained in EHR.
• Provides health-related training/consultation to residential staff.
• Annually, for each person in your caseload, complete: a review of the medical section Life Plan/CFA, medication audit (each home/day program).
• Participates in Nurse on call rotation.
• Obtain individual’s informed consent for medications, as per BDDSO Policy.
• Completes required medication error documentation and staff medication error remediation.
  
  

Maintains professional skills.

• Attends Nursing Discipline meetings.
• Attends/completes online mandated training, as well as available discipline-specific training.
• Identifies problems and/or opportunities for personal and/or nursing department improvement (s) and contributes to developing an action plan.
• Completes special projects/assignments.
• Computer skills including Microsoft word, excel and Electronic Health Record software.
  
  

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Minimum Qualifications

Applicants must possess a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State; and two years of post-licensure clinical nursing experience. One year of this experience must have been providing direct services to individuals diagnosed with mental illness, developmental disabilities, addiction, or substance use disorders in a community setting.

Substitution:

A bachelor's degree in nursing may substitute for one year of general post-licensure clinical nursing experience; and a master's degree in nursing may substitute for two years of general post-licensure clinical nursing experience.

Transfer:

Candidates must have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/c status in the posted title and be eligible for lateral transfer; OR be eligible to transfer via Section 70.1, 70.4, or 52.6 of Civil Service Law. The transfer cannot be a second consecutive transfer resulting in an advancement of more than two salary grades.

To determine if your current Civil Service title is eligible for transfer to this title, visit the Career Mobility GOT-IT website: https://careermobilityoffice.cs.ny.gov/cmo/gotit/index.cfm.

Additional Comments

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). HELPS Program titles may be filled via a non-competitive appointment. This means that you do not need to take an exam to qualify, but you do need to meet the minimum qualifications of the title.

At a future date (within one year of permanent appointment), employees hired under NY HELPS are expected to have their permanent non-competitive employment status converted to permanent competitive status. You will not have to take an exam to gain permanent competitive status.

• Posted Hiring Salary includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for PS&T Grade 20 ($74,193), Increased Hiring Salary ($9,980), Geographic Pay Differential ($35,000), and Downstate adjustment ($4,000). Geographic Pay Differential and Downstate adjustment are added to the job rate ($94,121).
• If you are currently a New York State employee serving in a permanent competitive qualifying title and eligible for a transfer via Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law, you may be appointed to this title as a permanent competitive employee.
• The assignment of PS&T employees will be made in accordance with any agreed upon Memorandum of Understanding between PEF and the local DDSO regarding the posting of job vacancies.
• Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume.
• All OPWDD employees must be eligible and maintain eligibility for full and unconditional participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Continued employment will depend on maintaining eligibility.
• If you are employed by state government you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments have been made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. For more information on PSLF, please visit www.studentAid.gov/publicservice.
• Employees on long term leave can bid on positions but must be able to report to work within fourteen (14) days and be able to perform the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodation (RA).
• If an employee or job applicant believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or email accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.
• Savings programs such as the U.S. Savings Bond and the College Savings Plan.
• Voluntary pre-tax savings programs such as Health Care Spending Account and the Dependent Care Advantage Account offer employees options to pay for uncovered health care expenses or dependent care expenses.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) an assessment and referral service that connects employees with local service providers and support services to address their personal needs.
• Life insurance and Disability insurance.
• The New York State Deferred Compensation Plan is a voluntary retirement plan that offers employees the option to invest a part of their salaries for retirement on a tax-deferred basis.
• Paid Holidays and Leave:
  
  

° Thirteen (13) paid holidays each year.

° Thirteen (13) days of paid vacation leave initially.

° Five (5) days paid personal leave each year.

° Thirteen (13) days of paid sick leave each year (PEF/CSEA), which may carry over from year to year.

° Up to three (3) days professional leave each year to participate in professional development events.

• Health Care Coverage:
  
  

Employees and their eligible dependents can choose from a variety of affordable health insurance programs. Employees are provided family dental and vision plans at no extra cost.

• Paid Parental Leave:
  
  

Paid Parental Leave allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave at full pay for each qualifying event. A qualifying event is defined as the birth of a child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care.

• Retirement Program:
  
  

Participate in The NYS Employees’ Retirement System (ERS), which is recognized as one of the best-managed and best-funded public retirement systems in the nation.

• Professional Development and Education and Training:
  
  

NYS offers training programs and tuition assistance to eligible employees to maintain and increase their professional skills and prepare them for promotional opportunities. For more information, please visit https://oer.ny.gov/training-and-professional-development.

• Additionally, the Public Service Workshops Program (PSWP) offers certain professional training opportunities for PEF represented and M/C designated employees that may grant continuing education credits towards maintaining professional licensure. For more information, please visit https://oer.ny.gov/public-service-workshops-program-pswp.
• OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer dedicated to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
  
  

***All people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.***