Highlights
Provide comprehensive nursing care to adult psychiatric patients, including assessment, medication administration, behavioral monitoring, safety interventions, patient education, therapeutic approaches, and documentation. Common diagnoses include schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, mood disorders, substance use, suicidal behavior, and anxiety disorders.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Leandro, CA |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Behavioral Health for a travel nursing job in San Leandro, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Behavioral Health
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Travel RN – Behavioral Health
Alameda John George Psychiatric Pavilion | San Leandro, CA
Start Date: 11/02/2026
Duration: 13 weeks
Hours: 40 hrs/week guaranteed
Patient Ratio: 1:6
Charting: Epic
Call: None
Weekend: Every other weekend – 6 weekend shifts/contract
Float: Yes, to other psych/PES/inpatient units as needed
Local Candidates: Accepted
Requirements
- Active California RN license required
- Minimum 2 years of RN experience
- Acute Behavioral Health/Psychiatric experience required
- Travel experience required
- BLS required
- CPI preferred; can be completed onsite
- Experience with complex psychiatric disorders and treatments
- Previous charge experience preferred
Unit Details
- Adult acute inpatient psychiatric/forensic behavioral health
- Approximately 23 beds
- 1:6 nurse-to-patient ratio
- Fast-paced environment
- Common diagnoses include schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, mood disorders, substance use, suicidal behavior, and anxiety disorders
- Support from psychiatrists, social workers, OT, mental health specialists, security, pharmacy, and other interdisciplinary teams
Responsibilities
Provide comprehensive nursing care to adult psychiatric patients, including assessment, medication administration, behavioral monitoring, safety interventions, patient education, therapeutic approaches, and documentation. Nurses may care for patients requiring seclusion or physical-hold protocols according to facility policy.
Additional Requirements
- Every-other-weekend coverage required
- No on-call
- RTO requires facility approval
- CA RN license and required credentials must be in hand at submission
- COVID-19 vaccination required per facility policy; medical exemptions may apply
- Facility may require floating based on patient care needs
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.