Registered Nurse

Make a bigger difference

Peer Specialist

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here.  Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs. 

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live. 

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance. 

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays. 

• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit. 

How you can make a bigger difference: 

The Jewish Board’s Behavioral Health programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve.  Our staff uses a culturally sensitive, family and relationship centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency.  Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.

The Staff RN is responsible for overseeing health care needs of all the individuals residing in the clinic.  The Staff RN is responsible for assessing, planning, organizing, documenting, administering and evaluating nursing care needs and services provided.  The duties include providing first aid to individuals and attending to their emergency medical needs; providing follow up of  individuals medical problems; and dispensing medication to individuals in accordance with prescriber’s orders. The Staff RN covering the Clinic must be in direct communication with, take assignments from and report all events and clinical findings to the RN Case Manager assigned to the residence.

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides nursing care according to MD orders, in compliance with nursing and regulatory standards.
• Conducts rounds throughout the facilities on assigned shifts.
• Monitors individuals health needs to ensure well-being.
• Provides ongoing care as well as care for minor illnesses, emergencies and injuries to individuals.
• Documents timely, outcome based information.
• Assists in medication administration; prepares and delivers treatments as needed.
• Checks medications and supply inventory, providing documented reports to the RN Case Manager, as necessary.
• Assists in the training of direct care staff regarding medical information, medication administration and other services, as assigned by the RN case manager or Director of Medical Services.
• Provides oversight of AMAP staff and reports findings or issues of concern to the RN Case Manager.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with all applicable Federal, State, local and OSHA regulations.
• Participates in the interdisciplinary treatment team process.
• Participate in meetings, trainings and seminars as required.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications: 

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

•Minimum education level of a BSN or RN.

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans 
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities 
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation 
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program  
• Life and disability insurance 
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee 

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us. 

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

 We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.