Review Vacancy
AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for
TitleCommunity Mental Health Nurse - CNY DDSO
Occupational CategoryHealth Care, Human/Social Services
Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary RangeFrom $66671 to $82785 Annually
Minimum Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Transfer: Current or previous one year permanent service as a Community Mental Health Nurse.
70.1 Transfer: In an approved Civil Service title within two salary grades with prescribed educational requirements.
Simultaneous to this posting, the appropriate civil service list will be canvassed. Management reserves the right to consider either a transfer or list candidate.
Duties Description POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Community Mental Health Nurse will identify health care needs for individuals living in family care homes throughout Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, & Oswego Counties. The CMHN assists the family care providers in navigating the health care system and will provide training and support to the providers as well as the individuals in the Family Care homes. The CMHN will work within the framework of a treatment team to provide nursing services, monitor health care, prescriptions and medical consults, and assist Family Care Providers with medical appointments as necessary.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is seeking to fill a Community Mental Health Nurse position to provide clinical support to Family Care homes in the counties identified above. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
• Identification of health care needs for individuals living in the Family Care Homes.
• Ability to complete the duties as outlined in the Family Care Manual tasks for Nursing. Monitoring of all medical aspects of the individuals on a minimum three-month basis in the home.
• Assisting Family Care Providers to navigate the health care system to aid individuals in obtaining routine check-ups with their primary care physician, and other medical services as needed. Attend specialty appointments with individuals as needed.
• Work In conjunction with Home Liaison, MSC, and Family Care provider to obtain optimal health care for individuals (diagnostic studies, age appropriate screenings for preventative health care, immunizations as appropriate), and during healthcare crisis assist and/or provide linkage of services.
• Assist individual and family care team, in conjunction with MSC, to navigate community health care resources (i.e. hospital discharge planning/accessing emergency resources, nursing home referrals, enhanced residential services, pre-referrals).
• Facilitator for promoting health care and disease prevention. Provide support to individuals in their decision making by providing explanations that would support their ability to make informed decisions.
• Act as a health care resource for individuals living in family care: finding physicians in the community, assisting consumers and the Family Care Team with finding appropriate medical day programs, providing respite medical information, end of life issues, hospice care, etc.
• Provide training and support to Family are Providers and individuals to meet the regulations of the Family Care program.
• Participate in Individualized Service Planning meetings with the individual and team.
Additional Comments Posted Hiring Salary $66,671 includes the sum of the statutory rate for PS&T Grade 19 ($59,671), and Geographic Pay Differential ($7,000). Job rate $82,785 includes the sum of job rate for the PS&T Grade 19 ($75,785) and Geographic Pay Differential ($7.000).
If you are employed by state government, you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments have been made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. For more information on PSLF, please visit www.studentAid.gov/publicservice.
Employees on long term leave can bid on positions but must be able to report to work within fourteen (14) days and be able to perform the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodation (RA). If an employee believes that he or she needs a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the NYS OPWDD Workforce and Talent Management Central Office (518) 473-9689 or Email at accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.
For CSEA positions: Local Bidding Agreements will be honored.
Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Submit PRF-1, cover letter and/or résumé by 12/31/19 to::
Central New York DDSO
Human Resources
187 Northern Concourse
N Syracuse NY 13212
Fax: 315-473-6658
cny.jobs@opwdd.ny.gov
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