Join Our Team as a Registered Nurse – RN

24 hours per week

$6,000 Sign-On Bonus*

Hiring Range: $42.45 - $54.13 per hour

Shift Differentials Up To +$7.00  

Continued Education Allowance

Kitsap Mental Health Services (KMHS) is hiring a Registered Nurse to provide high-quality, compassionate care across our 24/7 Services programs, including Adult and Youth Inpatient Units and Residential Services. In this critical role, you’ll work directly with clients experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges, offering medical assessments, medication administration, treatment planning, and crisis intervention. You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to support client safety and progress toward recovery goals in a trauma-informed, person-centered environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Engage with team members and collaborate with the shift supervisors to create, develop and sustain a positive and safe working environment.
• Examine and assess clients upon admission, determine if client is medically stable in order to provide care within the scope of practice of 24/7 Services at KMHS.
• Obtain orders from physician including the following:
  1. admission and provider orders within one hour of admit, when needed, after all pertinent information has been collected and treatment orders have been initiated
  2. seclusion/restraint orders per WAC 246-337-110
• Document client care, medication, and treatment administration. Evaluate, monitor, and document client responses to medication, treatments, progress to mental health goals, and plan of care.
• Write and implement nursing care plan upon admit. Review and/or revise every 24 hours. Collaborate with team (ie: Providers, MHP’s, Shift Supervisors, etc…) to establish and obtain pertinent goals.
• Administer medications and treatment in a safe manner in accordance to standardized nursing guidelines Organize medications for administration as directed by designated provider.  Dispose of medications according to KMHS protocol. Count and order medication for clients, maintain house stock, and count and document controlled medications per shift.
• Participate in discharge planning, review of treatment goals, assist in client medication educational needs, ordering of discharge medications etc.
• Provide flexible nursing coverage. Rotate and be proficient in the nursing role in all units of 24-Hours Services at KMHS.

Minimum Qualifications:

EDUCATION: Associates degree in Nursing.

EXPERIENCE: Entry level (no prior related work experience)

LICENSURE: Active and unencumbered Registered Nurse license in Washington State.

Preferred Qualifications:

EDUCATION: Bachelors degree in Nursing.

EXPERIENCE: Two years’ experience in one of the following environments: Adult, Adolescent or Child Inpatient Mental Health, and/or Addiction Treatment preferred.

Performance Requirements:

KNOWLEDGE:

1.      Maintain a working knowledge and skill in verbal de-escalation skills as outlined in MPAC/CPI trainings and other agency-mandated trainings

2.      May serve as mental health professional if qualified.

SKILLS:

1.      Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other employees, clients, organizations, and the public.

2.      Communication - Communicates clearly and concisely.

Abilities:

1.      Ability to delegate the non-nursing tasks to support staff. Coordinate with the shift supervisor for unit safety and other client needs.

Equipment Operated: Standard office equipment including computers, fax machines, copiers, printers, telephones, etc.

Work Environment: Frequent mobility and/or sitting required for extended periods.

Mental/Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to stand, sit, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, ascend and descend stairs, talk or listen and lift up to 50 pounds. Peripheral vision is also required for this position.

*A sign-on bonus is a form of compensation for a new employee in addition to their established salary

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