Are you ready to take the next step in your Nursing career, while continuing to make a difference in the lives of others? If so, we have an excellent opportunity for you to join our team of individuals committed to the goal of making a difference for individuals with mental health challenges!

The State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), is a health care agency whose mission is to promote the overall health and wellness of persons with behavioral health needs through an integrated network of holistic, comprehensive, effective, and efficient services and supports that foster dignity, respect, and self-sufficiency in those we serve.

We, at the Capitol Region Mental Health Center (CRMHC) are currently recruiting for a Nurse Clinician (PCN 112028), to work with our Outpatient Team B. The role is located at our facility at 500 Vine Street in Hartford. This position is first shift, full time, 40 hours per week. The work schedule is Monday through Friday, from 8:00am to 4:30pm.

Discover the Opportunity to:

• Be a member of a large, inner-city, outpatient, and multidisciplinary clinical team
• Serve people who are struggling with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use and chronic medical issues, as well as the sequelae of poverty
• Carry a caseload and provide individual and group psychotherapy
• Conduct clinical intakes, and psychosocial and nursing assessments taking into account historical and current symptomatology, family history, substance use, medical, diet and wellness concerns, and trauma history
• Conduct family therapy, provide triage and crisis intervention as well as medication and general health psychoeducation

We use a team approach to provide comprehensive, intensive and continuous services to clients who have been resistant to traditional forms of treatment, are unable to maintain themselves in the community without support, and tend toward high utilization of inpatient services. These are interdisciplinary teams which include psychiatrists, licensed clinicians, psychotherapists, community support specialists, and employment specialists.

Our mission is to partner with persons in recovery to ensure access to high quality and culturally competent person-centered behavioral healthcare services

Our employees participate in a competitive benefits plan that includes healthcare coverage, and a retirement plan, as well as paid time off! We encourage a healthy work/life balance to all employees.

In the Departments of Children and Families and Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Department of Correction Inmate Health Services this class is accountable for conducting individual, group or family therapy, performing clinical assessments, history taking and mental status examinations.

Elicits and records health history of client and/or patient; performs initial assessment using observation, interviews, inspection, auscultation, palpation and percussion; leads or co-leads psychotherapy groups or family therapy with other professionals; assesses, develops, implements and evaluates a written client and/or patient treatment plan for individuals and/or families; provides clinical supervision regarding assessment and intervention of crisis situations; counsels clients and/or patients and families about illness, medication and health habits; documents all care given; refers complex or emergent conditions to a physician, psychiatrist or psychologist according to predetermined guidelines; may perform some emergency medical treatments such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, treatment for shock or hemorrhage and treatment for emotional crises; may prescribe medication; may order laboratory tests as needed to discriminate between normal and abnormal findings on physical examination; may provide individual therapy; may perform mental status examinations; may lead multidisciplinary teams; may provide clinical supervision for ward milieu including writing ward and/or unit treatment programs; may assist in training students and health professionals; performs related duties as required.

Considerable knowledge of psychiatric nursing processes with emphasis on clinical interviewing and individual, group and family psychotherapy; considerable knowledge of current modalities of treatment available for psychiatric patients with emphasis on interdisciplinary team approaches; considerable knowledge of theories and treatments of mental illnesses; considerable interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills; ability to observe changes in patient behavior; ability to make inferences and differential nursing diagnoses based on data available.

Four (4) years of experience as a professional nurse.

Two (2) years of the General Experience must have been in a psychiatric setting in supervised individual, group and/or family therapy.

1. A Bachelor's degree in nursing may be substituted for one (1) year of the General Experience.
2. Master's degree in nursing may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.

1. Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a current license as a registered professional nurse in Connecticut.
2. Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.
3. Incumbents in this class may be required to possess and retain a valid Motor Vehicle Operator's license.
4. Within the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, incumbents in this class who write medications must have a current license as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse issued by the Department of Health.