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Are you looking to utilize your nursing degree in the behavioral health field? Are you interested in making a positive difference in the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities?

If so, consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Nursing team!

Being a Registered Nurse has its Advantages!

In addition to working with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need.

What Devereux offers YOU:

• A Challenging, rewarding and exciting nursing position that makes a positive impact on the lives of the individuals we serve.

• The opportunity to collaborate with like-minded and creative nursing professionals across the entire organization.

• A Servant Leadership culture, where employees feel welcomed, valued and empowered to voice ideas that will benefit the individuals and families we serve.

• The opportunity to drive change in a fast paced environment.

• A supportive team environment that creates an empowering and positive atmosphere.

• Ability to grow and develop both personally and professionally as a part of our nursing team.

• Best available, highest quality, low-cost benefit options – learn more at benefits.devereux.org.

• Mileage reimbursement for travel.

• Most importantly, the opportunity to change the world – one person, one family, one community at a time.

The Registered Nurse reports directly to the Director of Nursing. The RN will provide nursing support to our group homes in Cumberland County, NJ

Salary: $40-42 p/h

What Devereux Looks for in YOU:

• Responsible for completing annual Nursing Assessments for each residential individual.

• Conduct quarterly choking assessments foreach individual in day only and residential programs identified as high risk.

• Review all dietary changes for day only and residential programs.

• Conduct specialized training for new hire orientations, boot camp classes and on-going as needed.

• Review medications charts, labs and medication counts to ensure accuracy within the group home.

• Assisting group homes with primary care physician or other doctors as needed.

• Review charts to ensure all required documentation has been received

You deserve to work somewhere that gives back to you!

Devereux is proud to offer ASCEND – the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers – the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to fifteen thousand dollars annually for undergraduate and twenty-five thousand dollars annually for graduate) and student loan repayment, among other benefits!

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Qualifications

The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Must be licensed to practice as an RN in the state of New Jersey.

• One year of nursing experience preferred, but New Grads will also be considered.

• Previous professional experience in a behavioral healthcare setting preferred.

• Be flexible, patient, energetic, creative, and have a sense of humor.

• Have a strong passion for working with and helping adults with special needs.

• Comfortable traveling to different group homes.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Posted Date 2 months ago (4/23/2023 12:37 PM)

Requisition ID 2023-30366

Category Medical

Position Type Full-Time

The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.