Select positions are eligible for a $5000 sign-on bonus.

Why the Providence Center?:

The Providence Center is at the forefront of innovative approaches to behavioral health care.

The Center helps meet the changing needs of the more than 18,000 Rhode Islanders it serves each year.

The Providence Center is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center and community resource, providing all people with mental health and substance use services in their homes, schools, and neighborhoods.

Job Summary:

The Providence Center Nurse will provide clinical coverage and psychiatric nursing for the various programs, collaborating with Nursing Leadership and the patient care team to ensure the delivery of an excellent standard of care, which promotes independence and dignity and positively enhances the lives of our community.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Perform psychiatric nursing in accordance with appropriate medical protocol.

Provide accurate and timely information about medications and their side effects to the client and relevant others.

Use medication maintenance strategies, determining that the doctor’s orders have been accurately transcribed, implementing appropriately the prescribed medical regimen, monitoring lab results to validate medication compliance and assessing any aspect of the consumer’s treatment regimen that endangers the level of wellness, communicating questionable aspects of consumer care to appropriate persons.

Use physical assessment skills to determine related nursing interventions, including when medication exacerbates medical conditions and recognition of basic medical problems.

Inform and educate consumers about mental illness, medication, coping skills, their rights as clients, services, community resources, self-help and the consumer movement.

Requirements:

Associate's degree in Nursing required, Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred.

Active Rhode Island license as well as relevant experience with behavioral health, substance abuse, and serious mental illness.

Bilingual Spanish preferred.

Must have valid driver's license and insured auto.

Care New England Health System (CNE) and its member institutions; Butler Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, Kent Hospital, VNA of Care New England, Integra, The Providence Center, and Care New England Medical Group, and our Wellness Center, are trusted organizations fueling the latest advances in medical research, attracting top specialty-trained doctors, and honing renowned services and innovative programs to engage in the important discussions people need to have about their health.

Americans with Disability Act Statement: External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled must be able to perform the essential job-specific functions either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.

EEOC Statement: Care New England is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Ethics Statement: Employee conducts himself/herself consistent with the ethical standards of the organization including, but not limited to hospital policy, mission, vision, and values.