Registered Nurse - Early Intervention

Meeting Street; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Generous PTO

13 paid holidays

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Meeting Street in Rhode Island is seeking a Registered Nurse for a full-time, 40-hour week to support infants and toddlers.

You will work within a multidisciplinary EI team, develop IFSPs, and coordinate family-centered care, with strong emphasis on development, health literacy, and inclusive practice.

The role requires pediatric CPR/First Aid, RI RN license, and 1 year of experience; hours 8:30–4:45, Monday to Friday; generous benefits include PTO, holidays, and healthcare options.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-year related experience working with infants and toddlers from birth to age 5.
• Licensed as a Registered Nurse in Rhode Island.
• Valid pediatric CPR and First Aid certification.
• Participates in the orientation process for the agency and attends the state required Intro to EI training within the first year of employment.
• Position hours are Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:45 pm.

Responsibilities

• Interprets screening results focusing on a child’s functional capabilities and explains findings to families.
• Adapts the environment and designs assistive devices to support development.
• Develops and implements IFSP with the family and EI team.
• Creates therapeutic activities to support development and minimize impairment.
• Involves families throughout evaluation and IFSP processes.
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to plan evaluations and IFSP.
• Conducts evaluations using standard protocols to aid eligibility and IFSP development.
• Maintains ongoing partnership with the family and communicates with EI team and medical/community contacts.

Skills

Pediatric care

Family communication

Assessment skills

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) in Rhode Island

Tools

CPR Certified

First Aid Certified

Job description

Description

Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in children’s lives? Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning, where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.

Full-time Employees Receive

• Competitive Pay
• Generous PTO
• 13 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision and MORE

Meeting Street is currently looking for a Registered Nurse for 40 hours per week.

Duties

• Demonstrates competence in interpreting results of screening and evaluation in terms of a child’s functional capabilities with an emphasis on self-help skills, fine and gross motor development, mobility, sensory integration, behavior, play and oral-motor functioning and explains results to families in a mindful manner incorporating health literacy.
• Creates adaptation of the environment for infants or toddler sand selects, designs, and fabricates assistive devices to facilitate development and promote the acquisition of functional skills with respect to the family's culture and traditions.
• Develops and implements appropriate treatment plan (IFSP) with the family and EI team.
• Develops therapeutic activities and programs to prevent or minimize the impact of initial or future impairment, delay in development or loss of functional ability.
• Actively includes family throughout the entire evaluation/assessment and IFSP process.
• Works as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to gather and organize information from multiple sources to plan an individualized evaluation/assessment and IFSP.
• Administers a variety of discipline-specific evaluation/assessment procedures using specific protocols and best practices to gather further information to assist in determining eligibility and IFSP development.
• Coordinates and maintains a partnership with the family. Demonstrates consistent communication with EI team, medical and community contacts in a professional, inclusive, compliant, and timely manner.

Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our community’s future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity, and excellence. To uphold these commitments, we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.

It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, transfer and promote employees, and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration, education and training programs, and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual preference or orientation, gender expression or identity, age, national origin or ancestry, legally recognized disability, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, military status, socioeconomic background, homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion, retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.

Learn more about us at https://www.meetingstreet.org

Requirements

• Minimum of 1-year related experience working with infants and toddlers from birth to age 5.
• Licensed as a Registered Nurse in Rhode Island.
• Valid pediatric CPR and First Aid certification.
• Participates in the orientation process for the agency and attends the state required Intro to EI training within the first year of employment.
• Position hours are Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:45 pm.