Position:Registered NurseCompensation: $110,00 - $115,000 annuallyDept: Health and WellnessType:ExemptReports To:Director of Health and Wellness Location:On Site
As a school, SOIS maintains a smoke-free environment to ensure the health and safety of our students, employees, and community. We are a residential school located on a scenic 127-acre campus which includes multiple buildings and a working farm for student programming. The work environment will include both indoor and outdoor spaces.
Benefits: (check for FT, PT or All)
- Reduced Cost Meals every shift on site (All)
- Employee assistance program (EAP) (All)
- Insurance coverage: Health, vision, dental, life, supplemental and pet insurance (FT)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) (FT)
- Generous Paid time off (PTO) (FT)
- 401k w/company match (FT)
- Tuition/Professional development assistance (FT)
Who You Are:- You have a passion for working with the autism population and ensuring the safety and well-being of students and staff.
- You get the job done and are capable of strategic thinking while simultaneously rolling up to your sleeves to lead and teach by example.
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills, specifically involving documentation, progress notes, incident reports, and other related administrative tasks.
- You are experienced with medical assessment and ability to assess and respond quickly in emergent situations.
- You have excellent analytical capabilities, with a demonstrated ability to understand, problem solve, and make sound determinations/decisions in situations with complex facts and data.
- You have the ability to multitask and make sound and appropriate decisions under pressure, where situations/circumstances are continually evolving.
Job Responsibilities:- Communicate effectively, learn new skills quickly, and build strong relationships with students, peers, families, and interdisciplinary teams.
- Collaborate across departments and with the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to support students' holistic physical and emotional health.
- Monitor student wellness, performs routine and as-needed medical assessments, and provides crisis response and first aid, including coordination with EMS.
- Manage a medical caseload by coordinating with guardians, primary and specialist providers, pharmacies, nutritionists, and food services.
- Schedule medical, dental, vision, and lab appointments; tracks vitals; administers medications; and conducts bodymark checks at admission, discharge, and after significant incidents.
- Transport students in a company vehicle to appointments as needed is required.
- Provide health education to students directly and through Direct Support Professionals to promote healthy lifestyle habits.
- Work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team including psychiatric, clinical, educational, and direct care staff to ensure comprehensive care.
- Demonstrates cultural competence, professionalism, and the ability to engage effectively with diverse individuals and communities.
- Able to work flexibly and adapt.
Please note: This job description is not a comprehensive list of tasks or responsibilities. Specific assignments can change within the relevant field and training of your position, with or without notice.
Position Requirements:- Current NYS Licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in good professional standing, required
- Minimum 2 years of experience as an RN working with children/adolescents, required
- Ability to Complete Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools (TCIS) in its entirety, required
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) or higher, preferred.
- Training in psychiatric nursing or experience in psychiatric care, preferred.
- Experience working with youth with autism and/or psychiatric illness, preferred.
- Experience working with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or co-occurring conditions.
- Valid driver's license with the ability to pass a DMV driving abstract screening is required.
- Experience working in a therapeutic or residential school setting.
- Experience with crisis management and first-aid.
- Ability to communicate in a second language (Spanish, etc.), preferred.
- Due to the nature of work in supporting our students, all job description list the physical requirements for that position
- Our campus consists of some paved areas but primarily consists of grass, gravel paths and parking lots. Additionally, many areas of our building are fully accessible, however, as a historic building some areas are only accessible by stairs.
- You must be able to ambulate around the campus, including hills, stairs, grass and gravel.
- Student Facing Positions:
- Must be able to react and move quickly during student crisis, both for the safety of the student and for the staff.
- Must be able to run across the campus and throughout the school to catch/monitor an eloping student, and/or to remove yourself from an unsafe situation.
- You must be able to pass TCIS (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools).
- You must be able to bend, stretch, sit, stand, crouch or kneel for sustained periods of time if implementing a hold.
- Special Accommodations can be requested but will only be approved if the accommodation does not impact the ability to perform your position and it does not put yourself, a student, or any other staff member at risk of harm or injury.
Competencies:Clinical:
- Independent clinical judgment
- Medication administration
- Care planning
- Comprehensive nursing assessments
- Neurological assessments
- Emergency response
- CPR
- First Aid
Behavioral:
- Behavioral assessment
- Crisis recognition
- Trauma-informed communication
- Psychotropic medication monitoring
- Patient advocacy
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools (TCIS)
Safety & Compliance:
- Risk identification
- Compliance with infection control standards
- Adherence to NYS RN scope of practice
- Complete audits of charts regularly
- Adherence to care plans and physician orders
- Accurate incident reporting
- Mandated Reporter Training
