Join Our Team as a Crisis Nurse in Salinas!

Overview:
Are you a Nurse with a passion for mental health and supporting youth and families in need? If so, join our passionate team at Seneca!

Now accepting applications through April 30, 2025! This position will start Summer 2025

We are hiring a Crisis Nurse that will act as a clinical role model that provides nursing consultation for our multidisciplinary team. Our Crisis Nurse is responsible for implementing and evaluating the nursing care delivered within their shift and utilizing the nursing process to provide assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation of resident care within designated clinical areas.


The Crisis Nurse is responsible and accountable for prescribing, implementing, and evaluating the nursing care delivered within their shift, and for utilizing the nursing process to provide assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation of client care within designated clinical areas. The Crisis Nurse is responsible for meeting all regulatory documentation standards. The Crisis Nurse participates in the multidisciplinary team, Quality Assurance, and Utilization Review activities. They act as a clinical role model and provide nursing consultation to staff within the assigned areas of responsibility

About Monterey County Crisis Programs:

The Seneca’s Monterey Crisis Programs provide crisis stabilization services and short-term residential treatment for children and youth experiencing crisis, ensuring timely support when it’s most needed. This innovative way of addressing a mental health emergency provides a safe, supportive and welcoming environment for children and youth. Upon enrollment in the programs, the Seneca teams work with the youth and support networks to assess the needs and strengths of the youth in order to develop the foundation goals that will drive treatment. Comprehensive services include timely mental health assessments, crisis counseling, and linkage to long-term, sustainable support based on each client’s unique strengths and needs. The ultimate goal is to provide mental health/crisis services, suicide prevention, decrease in placement changes and reduction of unnecessary psychiatric hospitalization.

Responsibilities:
-Provide quality care, including nursing triage and assessment.
-Evaluate and chart illness and/or injuries
-Monitor physician orders and prescriptions
-Ensure safe medication processes are followed, including:
-Procurement
-Ordering
-Storage
-Administration practices
-Collect and analyze assessment data to formulate resident care problems and individualized outcomes.
-Plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions.
-Collaborates with Psychiatrist to ensure quality of medication administration, adequate consents, medical treatment and follow-up.
-Maintain working relationship with pediatricians, specialists, psychiatrists, therapists, and hospitals who provide care to the youth.
-Communicate effectively with others and promote teamwork.
-Participate in nursing department staff meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings, and other departmental activities.
-Provide ongoing training for staff on medications and other health-related education.
-Utilize crisis communication and de-escalation techniques as per Seneca's Equilibrium model training. This may include intervening with the clients' behavioral program through physical management of the clients, if applicable. Training in additional crisis intervention modalities such as CPI may be required.

REQUIRED:
-Bachelors of Science in Nursing preferred
-Active California Registered Nursing License
-CPR – BLS
-TB test clearance, fingerprinting clearance, and any other State/Federal licensing or certification requirements
-Organized, takes initiative, and has excellent correspondence and follows through with team
-Proof of up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination or an HR-approved medical/religious exemption

PREFERRED
-Experience with pediatrics, mental health, and/or triage assessment a plus.