RN - OVN

Arbour SeniorCare; San Marcos (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A psychiatric treatment facility located in Central Texas is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to provide comprehensive care for adolescents. The RN will oversee treatment plans, manage safety, and ensure effective communication with patients and families. Applicants should have a nursing degree, a Texas license, and ideally one year of experience in psychiatric settings. This role offers a rewarding environment with opportunities for growth within the organization.

Benefits

Paid training

Flexible scheduling

Growth and development opportunities

Qualifications

• One year psychiatric/neuropsychiatric experience preferred.
• Current Texas professional nurse license required.

Responsibilities

• Provide physical assessments of patients.
• Implement treatment plans and evaluate responses.
• Ensure a safe and therapeutic environment.

Skills

Good verbal and written communication skills

Ability to maintain confidentiality

Effective organization

Basic supervisory skills

Education

Graduate from an accredited school of nursing

Job description

Overview

San Marcos Treatment Center, a 212-bed, seclusion-free psychiatric residential treatment facility located between Austin and San Antonio in the heart of Central Texas! San Marcos spreads across 65 acres with an abundance of trees and wildlife. We have 13 unique living units separated by gender, age, and development levels with two swimming pools, two gymnasiums, sports court, playing fields, ropes course, canteen, social area, and a healing trail. We provide 24‑hour psychiatric care to girls and boys ages 6 to 17 with customized therapeutic approaches and intensive behavioral programs that teach young patients to moderate their behavior, manage emotions, and improve social functioning.

If you would like to learn more about this position, please visit our website at www.sanmarcostc.com.

Responsibilities

Registered Nurse (RN) position under the supervision of the Director of Nursing. The RN provides physical assessments of patients, implements treatment plans, evaluates response to treatment, provides complete documentation, administers medications as prescribed, and provides health‑care education for patients and families. The RN is the shift supervisor of the Mental Health Techs and LVN staff, ensuring that the environment is safe and therapeutic for all patients. Responsibilities include direct patient care and management of children, adolescents, and young adult patients as prescribed by the physician and treatment team. The RN ensures safety, supervision, crisis management, assessment, medical management, and assists in the management of a therapeutic milieu.

Benefits

• UHS is a challenging and rewarding work environment
• Paid training is provided on‑site
• Flexible scheduling
• Growth and development opportunities within UHS and its subsidiaries

Qualifications

Education: Graduate from an accredited school of nursing. One year psychiatric / neuropsychiatric experience with adolescents and/or young adults in a long‑term hospital or residential setting preferred.

Licensure/Certification: Current Texas professional nurse license and current driver license.

Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills; ability to maintain confidentiality of patient and employee information; demonstrates effective organization; develops and implements patient care services within discipline; consistently exhibits mental ability to understand and perform the essential functions of the job; ability to initiate and implement all phases of the nursing process; ability to provide safe nursing care; understanding of patient rights; basic supervisory skills.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal‑opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Avoid and Report Recruitment Scams

We are aware of a scam whereby imposters pose as recruiters from UHS and its subsidiary hospitals and facilities. Beware of anyone requesting financial or personal information. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or email mentioning UHS, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement or verify job opportunities on legitimate UHS career websites.

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $15.8 billion in 2024. UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 99,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and other related services located throughout the U.S., Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com