Registered Nurse

Make a bigger difference

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 Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally competent, person 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 resiliency of our communities.

The registered nurse (RN) is responsible for providing medical consultation and counseling to program staff and residents towards the goals of integrating physical and behavioral health needs and improving health outcomes.  In addition, the RN will coordinate care with existing medical providers and help link residents to medical providers, as needed.  The RN works as a member of a service delivery team, supporting the resident’s assigned worker in their delivery and coordination of health-related support services.

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborates with assigned worker and residents to develop an integrated service plan that includes any physical health needs that a resident may have. 
• Works with assigned workers to coordinate care with existing medical providers. 
• Develops and maintains collaborative partnerships with community health care providers.   
• Responsible for health education and communicating information regarding good health practices to residents.
• May run health groups.
• Provide medical consultation and support to program staff.
• Participate in program case conferences, briefings, event reviews, case record reviews, continuous quality improvement and other meetings/trainings.
• Responsible for data collection and analysis, with support, around resident medical needs and outcomes.
• Perform all necessary charting and documentation as required by internal practice and external regulatory bodies.
• Review medical records, lab results, hospital discharge papers and coordinate care with workers.
• Provide advocacy for hospitalized residents.
• 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:

• RN or BA in nursing and New York State registration is required.  Experience in a residential setting or in the mental health field strongly preferred.

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.