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Head Nurse (40 Hour) (Office/On-Site)
Company | State of Connecticut - Department of Children & Families |
Address | , Middletown |
Employment type | FULL_TIME |
Salary | $88,967 - $117,695 a year |
Expires | 2023-10-10 |
Posted at | 8 months ago |
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- Extensive pension plan and supplemental retirement offerings.
- Paid time off – including 13 paid holidays per calendar year.
- Industry leading health benefits, including medical and dental coverage.
- A healthy work-life balance!
- To work for a Forbes top company: ‘Forbes’ State of Connecticut Ranked one of the best Employers of 2023 – State of CT receives National Recognition for Offering Job Growth, Competitive Benefits, and Flexible Schedule.
- Professional growth and paid professional development opportunities.
- Identifies staff development needs.
- Instructs staff regarding policies and procedures.
- Responds to emergencies.
- Ensures controlled drugs and properly stored, administered, and ordered.
- Provides staff training and assistance.
- Maintains and promotes standards of nursing.
- Leads professional and paraprofessional nursing staff in provision of patient/individual care.
- Conducts or assist in conducting performance evaluations.
- Participates in interdisciplinary meetings to promote and ensure adjustment and continuity of patient/individual care programs.
- Plans unit workflow and determines priorities.
- Schedules, assigns, oversees, and reviews work.
- Makes recommendations for personnel actions such as selection, discipline, and performance.
- Leads the planning of care and implementation of the nursing process.
Selection Plan
- The minimum experience and training requirements must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
- For assistance in applying, please visit our 'Applicant Tips on How to Apply' page.
- In order to be considered for this job opening, you must meet the Minimum Qualifications as listed on this job opening. You must specify your qualifications on your application.
- The immediate vacancy is listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class.
- Ensure that your application is complete and detailed before submitting it. In order to comply with Public Act 21-69, the State of Connecticut is no longer asking for resumes during the initial application process. You will not be able to make revisions once your application is submitted into the JobAps system.
- Interviews will be limited to candidates whose experience most closely meets the preferred qualifications, so please ensure that your application is complete and details your experience as outlined in this job posting. Please note: You will be unable to make revisions once you submit your application into the JobAps system.
- These positions will be filled in accordance with contractual language, reemployment, SEBAC, transfer, promotion, and merit employment rules. Applications to this recruitment will be used to meet collective bargaining requirements. Once any collective bargaining requirements have been met, all other applications may be considered.
- Due to the large volume of applications received, the Department of Administrative Services is unable to provide confirmation of receipt or status during the recruitment process. Updates will be available through your JobAps portal account.
- At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation which support their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a cover letter, resume, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency. Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications as indicated to apply for this position.
- Although applicants will receive correspondence via email, as a backup they are also encouraged to sign on to their Personal Status Board on a daily basis to monitor their status, view all emailed notices and complete tasks required in the recruitment process.
- All application materials must be received by the recruiting agency by the time specified on the job opening for the position for which you are applying. Late applications may not be submitted and will not be considered. Exceptions are rare and limited to documented events that incapacitate a candidate during the entire duration of the job posting time period. It is the candidate’s obligation and responsibility to request an exception and provide a legally recognized justification to accommodate such exception. Requests should be made to [email protected].
- This posting may require completion of additional referral questions (RQs). You can access these RQs via an email that will be sent to you after the posting's closing date or by visiting your JobAps Personal Status Board (Certification Questionnaires section). Your responses to these RQs must be submitted by the question's expiration date. Please regularly check your email and JobAps Personal Status Board for notifications. Please check your SPAM and/or Junk folders on a daily basis in the event an email provider places auto-notification emails in a user's spam.
- Follow the State of Connecticut on LinkedIn.
- If you have any questions pertaining to this recruitment, please contact Rocky Young at [email protected] and reference the recruitment number.
PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)
In a state agency this class is accountable for administrative and clinical supervision of professional nurses, paraprofessionals and other staff involving direct nursing care of patients/individuals or performing specialized professional nursing work in the areas of community or therapeutic nursing. At the State Universities or State Vocational Technical Schools this class is accountable for providing primary nursing care for students and facility staff.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES
WORKING LEAD:
- Instructs staff regarding policies and procedures;
- Makes recommendations for personnel actions such as selection, discipline and performance; conducts or assist in conducting performance evaluations;
- May serve as Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional;
- Plans unit workflow and determines priorities;
- Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work;
- Responds to emergencies;
- May make recommendations on policies and standards;
- Ensures controlled drugs are properly stored, administered and ordered;
- Leads professional and paraprofessional nursing staff in provision of patient/individual care;
- Performs related duties as required.
- Identifies staff development needs;
- May prepare reports or correspondence;
- Maintains and promotes standards of nursing;
- Leads the planning of care and implementation of the nursing process;
- Participates in interdisciplinary meetings to promote and ensure adjustment and continuity of patient/individual care programs;
- Provides staff training and assistance;
DIRECT CARE:
- May participate in home visits and crisis intervention;
- May conduct patient/individual centered conferences with nursing personnel; may consult with and make recommendations to physicians concerning health needs;
- Conducts nursing assessments; provides admission and discharge nursing assessments including plans for continuing care;
- Ensures controlled drugs are properly stored, administered and ordered;
- May serve as Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional;
- Performs related duties as required.
- Independently manages and provides direct care to patients/individuals;
- May prepare reports or correspondence;
- Maintains records and makes reports; provides for nursing services to comply with ICF regulations and JCAHO standards;
- May make recommendations on policies or standards;
- Maintains records of stored and secured medications;
- Participates in individual, group or family therapy;
- Independently develops, implements and evaluates nursing and/or health care plans; provides nursing consultation in the assigned specialty program;
- Manages an assigned caseload of other appropriate clinical activities; provides clinical direction and/or training to staff in individual, group and family service delivery programs;
- May provide in-service training to nursing and paraprofessional staff with regard to signs and symptoms of illness, dysfunction, injury and prevention of same;
- Participates as a member of an interdisciplinary team in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of patient/individual treatment or health care plans;
SCHOOL NURSE:
- Determines need for physician or medical care; performs basic evaluative procedures and tests;
- Ensures that controlled drugs are properly stored; makes referrals and follows up on health needs;
- Independently provides counseling and health education services to students and staff;
- Performs related duties as required.
- Provides counseling on health related issues;
- May administer medication;
- Maintains accurate medical records;
- Writes reports;
- Serves as member of crisis intervention team; provides assessment of medical problems;
- May administer routine tests or exam;
- Performs primary first aid;
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY
- Supervisory ability.
- Knowledge of
- general and mental health conditions and treatment interventions through utilization of assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, health planning, implementation and re-evaluation;
- adult learning and family systems theory;
- and sensitivity to cultural and socio-economic differences;
- Oral and written communication skills;
- Ability to
- establish and maintain collaborative relationships with other professionals, community resources and providers;
- act as a role model to health care staff;
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with other professionals, community resources and providers;
- Act as a role model to health care staff;
- Adult learning and family systems theory;
- Considerable knowledge of
- and ability to independently apply nursing principles, techniques and standards;
- specialized patient/individual care applicable to nursing assignment;
- medications, their actions, interactions, uses and side effects;
- And sensitivity to cultural and socio-economic differences;
- Considerable
- interpersonal skills;
- oral and written communication skills;
- Interpersonal skills;
- Medications, their actions, interactions, uses and side effects;
- Specialized patient/individual care applicable to nursing assignment;
- And ability to independently apply nursing principles, techniques and standards;
- General and mental health conditions and treatment interventions through utilization of assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, health planning, implementation and re-evaluation;
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NURSING POSITIONS:
- Considerable knowledge of behavioral health of individuals;
- Ability to provide therapeutic treatment with a variety of patients/individuals.
- Skill working with individual patients/individuals, groups and families;
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a license or temporary permit as a Registered Professional Nurse in Connecticut.
- Incumbents in this class may be required to be fluent in a foreign language or proficient in the use of the American Sign Language in certain designated positions.
- Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.
CHARACTER REQUIREMENTS
WORKING CONDITIONS
Incumbents in this class may be required to lift and restrain patients/individuals; may have exposure to communicable/infectious diseases and risk of injury from assaultive/abusive patients/individuals; may be exposed to disagreeable conditions.
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