Job Description
Job Description
Registered Nurse (RN)
Are you a Registered Nurse who believes that healthcare is about more than just charts and compliance? At Corliss, we’re looking for a compassionate, visionary RN to coordinate the health and well-being of individuals.
Who We Are
At The Corliss Center, we do more than provide care—we build community. Based in beautiful Warren, RI, our non-profit agency is dedicated to supporting Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals with developmental disabilities. We aren't just looking for "staff"; we’re looking for advocates, teachers, and teammates who want to make a tangible difference.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
We value the hard work our RNs put in, and we make sure our benefits package reflects that:
- Holiday Perks: Earn Time-and-a-Half pay for all worked holidays.
- Comprehensive Health: Robust Health and Dental insurance plans for full-time team members.
- Future Security: Retirement plan offered for full time employees.
- Work-Life Balance: Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) to help you recharge.
- Growth & Learning: We provide Paid Orientation and Paid Training. You'll even learn a new language—American Sign Language (ASL)—right on the job!
- Referral Bonuses: Love your job? Bring a friend and get rewarded through our referral program.
Who You Are
- The position reports directly to the Director of Health and Wellness and serves as an integral member of a collaborative team that provides support to a small community of deaf and hard of hearing adults with development disabilities. This role assists in coordinating all aspects of health care and wellness management, as well as staff training, records maintenance, medication administration, needs assessment, case management and recommendations for members' care plans. Familiarity with American Sign Language is a plus, but this skill may also be acquired on the job.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide nursing for multiple residential group homes and day program.
- Conduct health assessments and on-going nursing evaluations.
- Administer and monitor medications, treatments and physician orders.
- Manage complex medical needs. (e.g. g-tube, seizures, mobility needs, chronic
- conditions.)
- Develop and update nursing care plans and health protocols.
- Train and delegate nursing tasks to Direct Support Professionals.
- Rotating on-call nursing support and clinical guidance for staff.
- Coordinate medical appointments, labs and specialty care.
- Communicate with physicians, guardians and interdisciplinary teams.
- Ensure compliance with state regulations (BHDDH, Medicaid and agency policies.)
- Participate in incident and quality assurance processes.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong clinical judgement and independent decision making.
- Experience supervising LPN and DSP staff.
- Excellent documentation and care coordination skills.
- Able to work autonomously in a community setting.
- Compassionate patient centered approach.
Schedule:
- Day shift, part-time, flexible hours.
- On-call rotation.
- Some evenings or weekends as needed for medical oversight.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: $41.00 - $44.00 per hour