Salary: $6,450.73 - $8,171.85 Monthly
Location : McMinnville, OR
Job Type: Regular Full-Time
Job Number: CS26-017
Department: Health and Human Services
Division: Health & Human Services (All Divisions)
Opening Date: 07/22/2026
Closing Date: 8/5/2026 3:00 PM Pacific

PLEASE NOTE: Salary is dependent on experience. Yamhill County typically hires between steps 1-4
Yamhill County has one regular full-time position for a Psychiatric Registered Nurse 2 to provide nursing services for Community Support Services - Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Early Assessment Support Alliance (EASA) programs. The person in this position may provide both general and special nursing services for individuals with serious mental illness emphasizing medication administration and monitoring, medication skills training, medical case management, health prevention and promotion, working with pharmacies, setting up accounts for free medication services, giving injections, and tracking, documenting, and coordinating with physicians as needed. Duties and responsibilities of this position will primarily be carried out in the community (e.g., and involve work with evidence-based models including, Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA) and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

The Benefits:

Yamhill County offers generous employee benefits:

• 15 paid holidays per year.
• 19.5 days of Flexible Earned Time (FET) accrual in the first year (based on an 8-hr day).*
• PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) - 100% employer funded contributions.
• Full health benefit offerings with employee premiums starting as low as $70.18/month for PPA or $0/month for HMO during current plan year 2025-2026. *

Additional benefits for HHS employees:

• $750 and 40 hours of paid time annually for professional development/training.
• $200 annually toward required license and/or certification fees.
• HRSA/NHSC approved site with many loan repayment opportunities available.
• Qualifying employer for
• Most positions are eligible to accrue overtime.*

*Subject to the (7/1/2023 - 6/30/2026).

The Qualifications:

• Minimum of two (2) years' experience as a registered nurse.
• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and possession of a current license to practice as a registered nurse in the State of Oregon.
• A bachelor's degree in nursing is preferred.
• Any satisfactory combination of experience and training which ensures the ability to perform the work may substitute for the above.

The Candidate:

The successful candidates must have a working knowledge of techniques specifically related to community mental health services and the following abilities: to understand the behavior of people under stress; to develop and maintain effective cooperative relationships with clients and their families, the community, physicians, and public and private administrators; to interpret community mental health and chemical dependency services, and to prepare concise and complete client treatment and progress records. Typing and computer proficiency are required for collaborative documentation. Additionally, the successful candidates will have excellent communication skills, and will be dependable, organized, self-directed, detail-oriented, and possess the ability to work in a team environment and to interact with co-workers, clients, and the public in a courteous, professional manner.
Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this classification with or without accommodation.

Health Coverage - Group medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage is available for the entire family. For the 2025-2026 plan year, the County will pay 97% of the monthly premium and employees will pay 3% ($70.18 per month) for the PPO Base Plan. With this plan, employees are eligible for a $125 a month contribution into an HRA VEBA account. Buy-up plans are also available. The employee premium for the HMO plan is $0.00, with the HMO plan employees are not eligible for the HRA Veba Account.

Retirement - PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) contribution is 100% employer funded, which includes both contribution to PERS pension and IAP accounts (IAP contribution is 6% of salary).

Short-Term Disability - 100% County paid.

Life insurance - $10,000 for employee/$2,000 for spouse and children - 100% County Paid.

Vacation/Sick Leave - Flexible Earned Time (FET) is a combination of vacation and sick leave. To start, employees earn 13 hours per month and future accruals increase based on years of service. After a year of service and depending on FET balance, employees may sell-back up to 40 hours of FET per year.