Review Vacancy
AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for
TitleCommunity Mental Health Nurse
Occupational CategoryHealth Care, Human/Social Services
Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary RangeFrom $58501 to $74301 Annually
Minimum Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Transfer: Current or previous one year permanent service as a Community Mental Health Nurse.
70.1 Transfer: In an approved Civil Service title within two salary grades with prescribed educational requirements.
Simultaneous to this posting, the appropriate civil service list will be canvassed. Management reserves the right to consider either a transfer or list candidate.
Provisional:
Candidates must be licensed and currently registered to practice nursing in New York State, or possess a limited permit to practice nursing in New York State. (You must obtain your New York State license within one year of the date of appointment or action will be taken to remove you from the position.) AND EITHER a bachelor's or higher degree in one of the areas listed below* AND two years of professional clinical nursing experience, including at least one year as described below** OR 30 college credits in the areas listed below* IN ADDITION to an associate's degree in nursing or completion of a three-year nursing program (attach a copy of your college transcript(s) to your OC-APP)
AND three years of professional clinical nursing experience, including at least one year as described below **
* acceptable areas include nursing, health care administration, public administration in a health care area, public health, community mental health, community mental health counseling, psychology, sociology, biology, social work or human services. The 30 credits may include up to two statistics courses. Courses/degrees in physical education, recreation therapy, English, history, math, anthropology, languages, etc. are NOT acceptable.
** one year of experience in providing direct services to individuals diagnosed with mental illness, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, or alcohol or substance abuse in a COMMUNITY SETTING, e.g., a halfway house, visiting nurse, or a community clinic.
Duties Description POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Community Mental Health Nurse will identify health care needs for individuals living in family care homes throughout Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, & Oswego Counties. The CMHN assists the family care providers in navigating the health care system and will provide training and support to the providers as well as the individuals in the Family Care homes. The CMHN will work within the framework of a treatment team to provide nursing services, monitor health care, prescriptions and medical consults, and assist Family Care Providers with medical appointments as necessary.
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PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is seeking to fill a Community Mental Health Nurse position to provide clinical support to Family Care homes in the counties identified above. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
• Identification of health care needs for individuals living in the Family Care Homes.
• Ability to complete the duties as outlined in the Family Care Manual tasks for Nursing. Monitoring of all medical aspects of the individuals on a minimum three-month basis in the home.
• Assisting Family Care Providers to navigate the health care system to aid individuals in obtaining routine check-ups with their primary care physician, and other medical services as needed. Attend specialty appointments with individuals as needed.
• Work In conjunction with Home Liaison, MSC, and Family Care provider to obtain optimal health care for individuals (diagnostic studies, age appropriate screenings for preventative health care, immunizations as appropriate), and during healthcare crisis assist and/or provide linkage of services.
• Assist individual and family care team, in conjunction with MSC, to navigate community health care resources (i.e. hospital discharge planning/accessing emergency resources, nursing home referrals, enhanced residential services, pre-referrals).
• Facilitator for promoting health care and disease prevention. Provide support to individuals in their decision making by providing explanations that would support their ability to make informed decisions.
• Act as a health care resource for individuals living in family care: finding physicians in the community, assisting consumers and the Family Care Team with finding appropriate medical day programs, providing respite medical information, end of life issues, hospice care, etc.
• Provide training and support to Family are Providers and individuals to meet the regulations of the Family Care program.
• Participate in Individualized Service Planning meetings with the individual and team.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
• Candidates will be expected to demonstrate and will be evaluated against the following criteria:
• Ability to perform duties as outlined above. Experience working within the medical community is optimal.
• Possess an acceptable attendance record.
• Possess an acceptable work record (e-file).
• Ability and willingness to work with multi-handicapped, including programmatic, therapeutic, health-related and other group activities.
• Effective nursing skills with strong health assessment skills.
• Ability to respond effectively to medical emergencies.
• Possess understanding of person centered planning as well as experience and active participation in an interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Ability to travel to and from various sites in a reasonable amount of time.
• Ability to work flexible hours to meet program /individual needs.
Additional Comments APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Submit PRF-1 Form with cover letter and résuméby 12/27/2017 to:
Central New York DDSO
Human Resources
187 Northern Concourse
N Syracuse NY 13212
Fax: 315-473-6658
cny.jobs@opwdd.ny.gov
Please reference the above EOA # in all correspondence.
Any questions regarding the duties of this position may be directed to Cyndy Coutts-Whitney, TTL at 315-425-5305 .
Employees on long term leave can bid on positions but must be able to report to work within fourteen (14) days and be able to perform the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodation (RA). If an employee believes that he or she needs a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the NYS OPWDD Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Central Office at (518) 402-7644 or Email at Affirmative.Action@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness: If you are employed by state government you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments have been made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. For more information regarding PSLF please visit StudentAid.gov/publicservice.
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
Please note:
• For CSEA positions: Local Bidding Agreements will be honored.
• Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
• All OPWDD employees must be eligible and maintain eligibility for full and unconditional participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Continued employment will depend on maintaining eligibility.
• OPWDD IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER.
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