Registered Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse - Cape CBHC CCS

Colonial Group; Barnstable (MA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Bay Cove Human Services is seeking an RN/LPN to provide direct nursing care on the CCS unit, promoting safety, health, and crisis resolution for clients. The role coordinates with Cape Cod Community Behavioral Health Center to ensure medication continuity and smooth transitions to community-based care.

The position requires MA RN or LPN licensure, 3+ years in behavioral health, CPR certification, and strength in team collaboration and crisis management.

Qualifications

• Massachusetts Licensed RN or LPN with a minimum of 3 years in behavioral health nursing.
• Current CPR certification.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to perform under pressure with clarity, compassion, and sound judgment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and initiative.
• Ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct nursing services to CCS clients including medication administration and health assessments.
• Coordinate with CBHC prescribers, nursing staff, primary care partners, and pharmacies for continuity of care.
• Participate in daily rounds with a multidisciplinary team.
• Coordinate admissions and discharges to and from the CCS unit.
• Maintain accurate nursing documentation in eHana and support care-transition workflows.
• Ensure safety protocols are reviewed and followed by shift staff.

Skills

Team collaboration

Crisis management

Communication

Independence

Education

Massachusetts RN/LPN license

3+ years behavioral health nursing

Tools

eHana experience

Job description

Bay Cove Human Services’ mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. Bay Cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges associated with developmental disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorders, and homelessness at more than 175 program sites throughout Greater Boston and southeastern Massachusetts.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Job Summary:

The CCS RN/LPN is responsible for providing direct services for clients at the CCS unit in a manner that promotes clients’ safety, overall health, their effective resolution of crises, and their reintegration into community based services. Employment classification will be confirmed with HR. The Nurse coordinates with the Cape Cod Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) to support medication continuity, health-related assessment, referrals, and safe transitions between crisis stabilization and ongoing community-based care.

Essential Functions of Position:

• Maintains effective working relationships with insurers, DMH, local community resources, and treatment/rehabilitation programs throughout the Cape Cod community.
• Maintains effective communications with the pharmacy and ensures that medication systems meet all required standards for storage, documentation, administration, and disposal.
• Provides direct services to clients at the CCS including medication administration, health assessments, and treatment and completes documentation as required.
• Participation in daily rounds with multidisciplinary team
• Coordinates admissions and discharges to and from the unit.
• Ensures that safety protocols are routinely reviewed and followed consistently by shift staff (such as emergency systems; identification and remedy of facility safety hazards; security systems; lock up of sharps and any potential toxins; hazardous waste management; checks protocols, checking vitals protocols, etc).
• Coordinate medication reconciliation, nursing handoffs, and health-related follow-up with Cape Cod CBHC prescribers, nursing staff, primary care partners, pharmacies, and other providers.
• Complete timely nursing documentation in eHana and support shared CCS/CBHC admission, referral, discharge, and care-transition workflows. Participate in CCS/CBHC case consultation, access, quality-improvement, and care-transition activities as assigned.
• Performs all other duties and projects as assigned by the supervisor

Requirements for the position:

• Schedule/shift: All shifts needed
  • All shifts needed: day (7am-3pm), evening (3pm-11pm), overnight (11pm-7am), weekend/holiday (7a-3p, 3p-11p, 11p-7a).
  • Full-time, part-time/per-diem schedule for each opening.
  • Employment classification: Non-exempt
• Massachusetts Licensed Registered Nurse, or LPN, a minimum of three years nursing experience in the delivery of behavioral health services to adults and/or children and adolescents
• Current certification in CPR
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a pressured situation and maintain clarity, focus, judgment, and compassion
• Ability to identify problems and initiate solutions to problems
• Ability to work with people in crisis in a hopeful and compassionate manner and model this for others
• Ability to work independently

Bay Cove Human Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other groups as protected by Massachusetts or federal law. All qualified candidates, regardless of background, are encouraged to apply.

Bay Cove Human Services does not offer visa sponsorships at this time and will require candidates to be authorized to work in the United States.

Pay Rate: $33.66 (LPN) & $41.82 (RN)