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Participate in a dynamic team providing support to individuals with mental illness. Provide for a positive environment to foster the development of independent living skills while monitoring and role modeling health and safety. Within the framework of recovery and resiliency, promotes and restores patient's health by providing health care services in a competent manner consistent with parameters of training and licensure. **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**** :**

• Provide quality care by assuming primary nursing responsibility for the care of individuals.
• Assures current and accurate medical records by maintaining an accurate computer database and consistently charting significant health related interactions.
• Ensures medication accuracy by ordering, labeling, packaging, distributing and checking that medications ordered by the physician are administered.
• Implements orders for care, including medication orders via written and oral communication with staff, using the organization's electronic health record.
• Follows policies and procedures for dispensing psychotropic medications by preparing the written consent forms.
• Helps residents to their medical appointments by transporting as needed.
• Supports individuals in maintaining proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles through education and role modeling.
• Coordinates with individuals medical and psychiatric providers around care and provides transport as needed.
• Provides training and support to staff, as needed.

General Expectations

• Work collaboratively as a member of a team with various groups of staff, depending on the issue addressed.
• Participates in group treatment by focusing on health-related subject matter as indicated and available for assigned residents/clients.
• Follow Suicide safer care practices.
• Ability to support and recognize the important role that volunteers play. Sweetser employees work with, support, collaborate with volunteers, and promote opportunities for volunteer engagement.
• Fulfills team membership responsibilities by participating in team meetings.
• Promotes a healthy, enjoyable work environment by maintaining a clean, well-organized clinic.
• Be committed to the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Assure safety and quality in work performed to facilitate the delivery of quality services.
• Reports accidents and injuries in a timely fashion, demonstrates safe housekeeping practices, notifies supervisor of potential health and safety concerns immediately, participates in health and safety training as required, understands and follows all Sweetser health and safety policies.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the organization's safety policies and practices by attending required safety programs and reporting all accidents and suspected safety hazards to supervisor.
• Provides necessary medical, dental and psychiatric information by regularly attending and actively participating in team meetings for assigned programs/cottages.
• Fulfills job function by participating as an active member in trainings and participating on organization task forces.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations Required

• CPR Certified
• Valid Driver's License
• Current RN License in the State of Maine