Highlights
Must have the ability to stand for long periods, lift and move patients (up to 50 pounds), bend, squat, reach, push, pull, walk significant distances, and perform physically demanding tasks like CPR, all while maintaining good balance and endurance throughout a shift. As a Psych RN in correctional healthcare, you’ll have the opportunity to support patients with complex behavioral health needs, collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary treatment team, and make a meaningful impact on an underserved patient population.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Montgomery, Alabama |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1989 |
| Website | http://www.naphcare.com/ |
Description
Overview:
NaphCare is hiring Mental Health Registered Nurses (Psych RNs) to join our healthcare team at Kilby Correctional Facility in Mt. Meigs, Alabama!
Bring your nursing skills into a setting where mental health care truly matters. As a Psych RN in correctional healthcare, you’ll have the opportunity to support patients with complex behavioral health needs, collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary treatment team, and make a meaningful impact on an underserved patient population.
Various Shifts Available: Days | Evenings | Nights | Weekends
Part-Time Opportunities
As a Mental Health Registered Nurse (Psych RN), you’ll work alongside mental health professionals, medical providers, and correctional staff to deliver compassionate, patient-centered care. You’ll assess and monitor patients’ mental and physical health, administer medications, support behavioral health treatment plans, respond to urgent clinical needs, and help maintain continuity of care throughout a patient’s time in custody.
Whether you already have behavioral health experience or are an RN interested in expanding your skills into mental health and correctional healthcare, this is an opportunity to grow your clinical experience while making a difference in a unique healthcare environment.
Responsibilities:As a Mental Health Registered Nurse (Psych RN), you will play an important role in supporting the mental and physical health of our patient population. Duties and responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Performing mental health screenings, nursing assessments, and ongoing patient evaluations
- Monitoring and documenting changes in patients’ mental status, mood, behavior, and physical health
- Administering prescribed medications, including psychiatric medications, and monitoring patient response
- Recognizing and reporting changes in behavior, mental status, or potential safety concerns
- Supporting individualized behavioral health treatment plans and coordinating care with mental health professionals and medical providers
- Responding to urgent medical and behavioral health needs and assisting with crisis intervention
- Providing patient education regarding medications, treatment recommendations, and ongoing care
- Managing acute and chronic medical conditions in conjunction with behavioral health needs
- Maintaining accurate medical records and documenting treatment, observations, and changes in condition
- Collaborating with the multidisciplinary healthcare and correctional teams to support safe, effective patient care
- Assisting with discharge/release planning and continuity of care
Experience / Requirements / Qualifications
- Holds a current, unrestricted license as a Registered Nurse within the state of Alabama
- Must possess an active BLS CPR Certification (AHA preferred)
- Knowledge of nursing practice principles and techniques, occupational health and safety standards, infectious disease management, applicable health care laws, regulations, and procedures for direct health care services.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Able to work independently and in a team
- Flexible schedule and availability to work overtime when needed
- Ability to interact effectively with patients from diverse backgrounds, including those with mental health or substance abuse issues
- Must have the ability to maintain confidentiality of all proprietary and/or confidential information and integrity, professionalism and ability to adhere to a Code of Conduct and comply with all facility(s) correctional healthcare policies, procedures, and legal requirements
- Must pass the facility’s criminal background check and drug screening
Physical Capabilities:
Must have the ability to stand for long periods, lift and move patients (up to 50 pounds), bend, squat, reach, push, pull, walk significant distances, and perform physically demanding tasks like CPR, all while maintaining good balance and endurance throughout a shift.
Why Join NaphCare?
NaphCare is one of the largest providers of healthcare services to correctional facilities throughout the US, and we are growing. If you have never considered a career in correctional healthcare, now may be the time! In addition to competitive salaries and generous employee benefits, we have opportunities for new graduates and experienced medical professionals, promote educational growth, and strongly support career advancement within the company.
NaphCare Benefits for Full-Time Employees Include:
- Health, dental & vision insurance that starts day one!
- Prescriptions free of charge through our health plan, beginning day one
- Lowest Cost Benefits!
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services
- 401K and Roth with company contribution that starts day one!
- Tuition Assistance
- Referral bonuses
- Term life insurance at no cost to the employee
- Generous paid time off & paid holidays
- Free continuing education and CMEs
Want a better idea of what it’s like to work in a jail? See what our RNs do:
NaphCare - Life as an RN - YouTube
If you would like to speak with me to learn more about this position and NaphCare, apply directly to the position to initiate the application process, and I’ll be in touch.
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About Company
NaphCare is dedicated to implementing cost-effective, quality services according to our clients' needs.
Because every facility is unique, we tailor our services to meet each client's respective needs. We deliver solutions based on your requests rather than telling you how to run your facility. NaphCare evaluates, evolves, and adapts our programs according to not only client needs, but also the ever-changing field of correctional healthcare.
When you choose NaphCare, you choose a proactive, preventive healthcare provider. We focus on a “Day One” mentality, providing care up front and without delay. Our clients experience greater efficiency, a reduction in unnecessary costs, and transfer their legal liability, all without giving up their independence. NaphCare is leading the way with an all-in-one approach to correctional healthcare that provides services unique to your facility.
Personal Attention
With NaphCare, people come first. We are proud of our company culture and ability to connect with our clients on a personal level, and it is NaphCare's mission to continue our history of personalized service. Care is not reserved simply for the patients entrusted to us, but also for our client partners. We care for our clients by providing efficient services to reduce their costs, communicating regularly about our services, listening to the client, providing accountability through continuous quality studies and reporting, and working with integrity at all times.
Company Consistency
Also, as an independent healthcare partner, we are free from complex partnerships and distant investors that limit our competitors' responsiveness. NaphCare has not undergone any corporate reorganization or restructuring since the company was founded in 1989, and has no plans to do so in the future. This stability, along with planned and structured growth, ensures that our client partners receive personal attention from our administrative and medical support team at our headquarters.
Financial Stability
NaphCare is a financially stable and fiscally responsible company. Throughout our history, we have maintained steady, measured growth, more stable than sweeping corporate changes. Our clients do not have to worry about drastic shifts in our company and how such changes will affect their services.
One of the best indicators of a company's financial stability is its ability to secure insurance and a bonding line. NaphCare is proud of our ability to provide performance bonds, rather than letters of credit. Due to our financial strength, NaphCare has exceptional insurance programs that indemnify our clients against litigation regarding healthcare services.
Because every facility is unique, we tailor our services to meet each client's respective needs. We deliver solutions based on your requests rather than telling you how to run your facility. NaphCare evaluates, evolves, and adapts our programs according to not only client needs, but also the ever-changing field of correctional healthcare.
When you choose NaphCare, you choose a proactive, preventive healthcare provider. We focus on a “Day One” mentality, providing care up front and without delay. Our clients experience greater efficiency, a reduction in unnecessary costs, and transfer their legal liability, all without giving up their independence. NaphCare is leading the way with an all-in-one approach to correctional healthcare that provides services unique to your facility.
Personal Attention
With NaphCare, people come first. We are proud of our company culture and ability to connect with our clients on a personal level, and it is NaphCare's mission to continue our history of personalized service. Care is not reserved simply for the patients entrusted to us, but also for our client partners. We care for our clients by providing efficient services to reduce their costs, communicating regularly about our services, listening to the client, providing accountability through continuous quality studies and reporting, and working with integrity at all times.
Company Consistency
Also, as an independent healthcare partner, we are free from complex partnerships and distant investors that limit our competitors' responsiveness. NaphCare has not undergone any corporate reorganization or restructuring since the company was founded in 1989, and has no plans to do so in the future. This stability, along with planned and structured growth, ensures that our client partners receive personal attention from our administrative and medical support team at our headquarters.
Financial Stability
NaphCare is a financially stable and fiscally responsible company. Throughout our history, we have maintained steady, measured growth, more stable than sweeping corporate changes. Our clients do not have to worry about drastic shifts in our company and how such changes will affect their services.
One of the best indicators of a company's financial stability is its ability to secure insurance and a bonding line. NaphCare is proud of our ability to provide performance bonds, rather than letters of credit. Due to our financial strength, NaphCare has exceptional insurance programs that indemnify our clients against litigation regarding healthcare services.