Charge Nurse Behavioral Health - 30 hours/week, Days

MaineGeneral Health • Part-time • Augusta, ME • 3m ago

Job Summary:

MaineGeneral is seeking a dedicated Charge Nurse to join our team on 3 South, our inpatient behavioral health unit at the Alfond Center for Health in Augusta. This state-of-the-art unit was designed with the input of staff and patients and is a unique environment sustaining safe, innovative, and supportive care.

Job Description:

$15,000 sign-on bonus potential for experienced RNs

Must have three years of behavioral health RN experience.
Must accept at least a 30-hour-per-week position.
Current MaineGeneral employees are ineligible; former MaineGeneral employees are ineligible until greater than 6 months of separation from employment.

The Role: Behavioral Health Charge Nurse (RN)

As a behavioral health charge nurse, you will play a crucial role in managing the nursing staff and operations within our behavioral health unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing nursing leadership, ensuring high standards of patient care, providing clinical support to the nursing team, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.

What You'll Do:

Supervises and mentors nursing and support staff during assigned shifts.
Determines staffing level and assignments based on staff availability, staff abilities, census, and patient acuity in a fiscally responsible manner.
Provides direct patient care as needed. Floats between staff to assist with problem-solving. May take patient assignments to meet staffing needs.
Evaluates the effectiveness of patient care and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes. Responds to complaints about patient care and related services, and manage through established channels. Collaborates patient care as needed, across the organization.
Performs responsibilities of the underlying role, including entering orders, performing admissions or discharges, and coordinating transfers. Ensures staff has the necessary equipment and supplies to provide safe and effective patient care.

Your Qualifications:

A valid state of Maine RN license or ability to obtain same in a timely fashion; (required)
At least 3 years of acute care RN experience serving this patient population; (preferred)
BLS and MOAB (preferred)
Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Ability to operate and excel in a health care environment with many inherent stressors.

Why Choose MaineGeneral:

Exciting Shift Differentials: Potential to earn up to an additional $7/hr. for specific shifts.
Access comprehensive wellness benefits, including health, dental, vision and more.
Benefit from employee discounts, generous parental leave, and ample earned time off.
Retirement planning with up to 4% company contributions.
Potential student loan reimbursement
Embrace growth opportunities within our organization

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

Scheduled Work Shift:

7a-7p (United States of America)

Job Exempt:

Benefits

Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.

Physical Wellness:

We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.
Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.
A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.

Emotional Wellness:

When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.

Financial Wellness:

An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center.
Loan Reimbursement is available for this position dependent upon current degree level. Please discuss benefit with the recruiter.
Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.
We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.
Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.
We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.

Career Mobility:
Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource they are how we grow our business and care for our community.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 .

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