Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Child Unit

Sioux Center Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 45,460 - 67,502; Full time

Job summary

Avera Behavioral Health Sioux Falls is seeking an experienced RN for evening and night shifts in the Adolescent & Child Units. The role involves comprehensive nursing care, coordination with a multidisciplinary team, and patient-family education.

Eligible nurses with 3+ years may receive a sign-on bonus up to $15,000; those with <3 years have different weekend/holiday schedules. PTO from day 1 and retirement match offered. Join a caring, mission-driven environment focused on safety and high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Active RN license in the state of practice upon hire.
• 1-3 years experience in a clinical environment.
• Ability to work evenings and nights with rotating weekends/holidays.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care by reviewing prescriptions and coordinating with the health care team.
• Develops nursing care plans and documents patient condition and interventions.
• Teaches patients and families about condition, medications, and self-care.
• Evaluates care, measures outcomes, and updates care plans as needed.
• Maintains safety and infection-control procedures and ensures supplies are stocked.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Critical thinking

Patient care

Education

RN License

1-3 years clinical experience

Job description

Work Shift

Evening and Night Shift (United States of America)

Location

Avera Behavioral Health Sioux Falls

Worker Type

Regular

Pay Range

$32.50 - $48.50 (actual pay rate dependent upon experience)

Position Highlights

Schedule: Evenings and Nights with rotating Weekends and Holidays

This RN position may be eligible for a Sign On Bonus up to $15,000

Nurses with 3+ years of experience: Every 3rd weekend, Every other holiday

Nurses with < 3 yrs: Every other weekend, Every other holiday

Why is Behavioral Health important?

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Units are designed to be a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment for adolescents and children to learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals.

You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are Nurse that:

• Enjoys working with children ages 5 to 12 years old and adolescent ages 13 to 17 years old as well as their families.
• Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Addiction or Suicidal behavior.
• Appreciates an active, challenging care environment that requires critical thinking.
• Values autonomous professional nursing practice.
• Possesses motivation to help create and deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.

Unit Highlights

• Cross Trained to work in the Adolescent Program and Child Program
• Adolescent program is a 40 bed unit
• Child program is a 14 bed unit
• Opportunity to meet 70+ coworkers
• Opportunity to change lives of both Adolescents and Children
• Self-Scheduling program

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Delivers Nursing Care by developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends to understand patient conditions, medications, and self‑care skills; noting changing conditions and needs; re‑evaluating care objectives.

What You Will Do

• Provides patient care by reviewing physician prescriptions; communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team; coordinating with other healthcare providers; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends; conferring with physicians.
• Develops nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories; examining patients; documenting patient physical condition, psychological status and influencing social factors; conferring with family and friends; developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables.
• Teaches healthcare requirements by establishing patient care goals; instructing patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self‑care skills; answering questions; providing information and resources.
• Evaluates patient care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care standards; reviewing patient records; noting changing conditions and needs; re‑evaluating care objectives; modifying nursing care plan.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy patient care environment by adhering to infection‑control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations; adhering to organization standards and policies, and to legal regulations; alerting others regarding potential concerns.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Keeps patient care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Keeps patient care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.
• Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, Or Work Experience

• Registered Nurse (RN) – Board of Nursing. An active license in the state of practice upon hire.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, Or Work Experience

• 1-3 years Experience working in a clinical environment.

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating workflow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement.
• Career development guided by hands‑on training and mentorship.

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to [e-mail].