Registered Nurse 2 Community (NY Helps)

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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 06/18/24

Applications Due07/03/24

Vacancy ID161267

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NY HELPYes

AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for

TitleRegistered Nurse 2 Community (NY HELPS)

Occupational CategoryHealth Care, Human/Social Services

Salary Grade20

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary RangeFrom $101720 to $111381 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Contingent Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Non-competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 40

Workday

From 8 AM

To 4:30 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? No

County Schenectady

Street Address Capital District DDSO

500 Balltown Road

City Schenectady

StateNY

Zip Code12304

Minimum Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATONS:

• Must maintain a valid New York State license and registration

Currently a permanent Registered Nurse 2 (Community).

OR

Eligible to transfer via Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law by having one year of permanent service in an approved title for transfer. To determine if your current Civil Service title is eligible for transfer to this title, visit the Career Mobility GOT-IT website: Career Mobility Office " GOT-IT (ny.gov) https://careermobilityoffice.cs.ny.gov/cmo/gotit/ Appointments via transfer must not result in a second, consecutive transfer with an advancement of more than two salary grades.

OR

Open to Public: Licensed and currently registered to practice nursing in New York State AND Two years of post-licensure clinical nursing experience. One year of this experience must have been providing direct services to individuals diagnosed with mental illness, developmental disabilities, addiction, or substance use disorders in a community setting.

Substitution: a bachelor's degree in nursing may substitute for one year of general post licensure clinical nursing experience; and a master's degree in nursing may substitute for two years of general post-licensure clinical nursing experience.

Duties Description $101,720- $111,381 Annually

• Posted Hiring Salary includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for Registered Nurse 2 Community, Grade 20 ($72,032) and Increased Hiring Salary ($9,688) and Geographic Differential ($20,000). Geographic Differential added to the job rate ($91,381) for RN 2 Community, Grade 20.
• A total of 5 hours deviation from the default schedule (Hours before or after the regular workday). 4 hours a month are expected to be on a weekend day and would count toward the above deviation expectation.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Candidate would function as Registered Nurse 2 with duties as described below. Additional duties to be assigned as necessary by the Director of Nursing. The candidate must be highly organized, professional, and able to self-direct. Candidate must have good interpersonal skills, consistent communication with supervisor and be able to collaborate well with other RN's and disciplines.

Duties will include:

• Assist residential nurses as hospital liaison for individuals who are hospitalized by assisting with weekly hospital visits, obtaining, and updating daily report on hospitalized individuals, collaborating with hospital team/OPWDD treatment team/family for safe discharge, establishing discharge planning meetings, advocating for individual's medical needs and coordinating care/supplies/equipment at IRA for any additional supports needed upon return.

• Coordinate with hospitals, family, residential RN's, clinicians and providers for long-term support, palliative care and discussions surrounding end-of-life concerns.

• Establish relationships/contacts of care manager teams at local hospitals in region. Maintain list of these contacts.

• Follow up, obtain/retain, upload copies of hospitalization medical records into Electronic Medical Record as directed.

• Provide nursing component to IST (Intensive Support Team), CATH (Comprehensive Adult Transition Home) committee and other interdisciplinary teams aiding strategies to support the individuals.

• Provide training for RN's to aid in the transition of coverage of newly opened IRAs.

• Assist with education of nurses and direct support staff as assigned.

• Support management of emerging and existing medical/nursing issues.

• Assisting in ensuring compliance with rules/regulations governing nursing practice in OPWDD.

• Assist and ensuring implementation of facility policies and procedures related to nursing.

• Participate in various meetings and serving on committees as needed.

• Attends/completes on-line mandated DDSO training, as well as discipline specific training.

• Completes special projects as assigned.

• Oversees individuals' overall health care needs and works with residential nurses to implement optimal care.

• Incident Investigation and other duties as assigned by supervisor.

The Candidate must be able to perform CPR compressions on a supine individual on the floor. The Nurse demonstration of CPR compressions on the floor would ensure nurse ability to perform in worst case scenario, since we use no backboards in OPWDD.

SELECTION PROCESS:

Selection will be based on interview, and candidates past work history.

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Additional Comments ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

• Family and household member relationships: OPWDD policy may impact eligibility for this position. Employees are responsible for recognizing the relationship and not posting for positions where it would be a concern. Before you apply read Section 120.27 of the Region 3 Policy Manual. Please e-mail capital.district.human.resources@opwdd.ny.gov if you have you need help determining if this policy applies to you.

• CAPA: Must be cleared by the NYS Central Register for Child Abuse and Maltreatment if position requires working with minors and not previously cleared.

• 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 on PSLF, please visit www.studentAid.gov/publicservice.

• 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 they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the NYS OPWDD Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or e-mail at accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.

• For CSEA positions: Local Bidding Agreements, and previously approved vacation/holiday time will be honored in the new assignment.

• 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.

• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.

• OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

• OPWDD is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas, and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran's status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

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Name Capital District DDSO

Telephone 518-388-0838

Fax 518-370-7536

Email Address CapitalDistrict.Careers@opwdd.ny.gov

Address

Street 500 Balltown Road

Building 1

City Schenectady

State NY

Zip Code 12304

Notes on ApplyingAPPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Please submit cover letter and resume to:

Capital District DDSO

Human Resources Office

Building 1

500 Balltown Road

Schenectady, New York 12304

Phone: 518-388-0838

Fax: 518-370-7536

Email: CapitalDistrict.Careers@opwdd.ny.gov

• Please reference EOA #24-97 REPOST in all correspondence.