Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse (RN) - Adolescent/Child Psych Job at Peachford Hospital, Atlanta, GA

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  • Peachford Hospital
  • Atlanta, GA

Job Description

Responsibilities

Registered Nurse (RN) – Adolescent & Child Psych Programs

Peachford Hospital is searching for caring and compassionate Registered Nurses (RN) with experience or interest in psychiatric nursing, behavioral health or addictive disease treatment for our Adolescent Girls Unit.   Sign-On Bonuses are offered for full time positions.

What Role Will You Play On the Female Adolescent Units?

Many children and adolescents suffer with mental illnesses ranging from severe depression to personality disorders and other psychiatric problems. Some may become defiant, withdrawn or even suicidal. Drug and alcohol addiction are becoming more serious among teenagers and can easily destroy young lives. Our Adolescent Treatment Programs are geared toward helping adolescents increase self-esteem and take responsibility for their behavior without turning to drugs or alcohol for help.

Registered Nurses (RNs) on the Child or Adolescent Units at Peachford deliver quality nursing care to children and adolescents and play a pivotal role in the treatment planning process as well as patient and family education. 

What Will You Get To Do?

Registered Nurses (RN) are assigned these and/or similar tasks:

  • Keeping our patients safe.
  • Assessing patient’s needs through daily interaction with the patient and other health care providers.
  • Developing a comprehensive interdisciplinary treatment plans and monitoring patient’s progress toward meeting treatment plan goals.
  • Administering medications in a safe, accurate, and timely manner.
  • Providing comfort and care while following policies, procedures and standard nursing protocols.
  • Communicating changes in patient’s status with attending physician.

What do our nurses value at Peachford?

An environment that puts patient care first: One of the most rewarding aspects of working as a Registered Nurse (RN) is providing excellent care, comfort, and security to the patients and families you treat, at their most vulnerable times. 

Having the opportunity to grow, learn, and advance in their career:  There are a variety of continuing education opportunities for leadership development as a Registered Nurse (RN) with Peachford and UHS. 

Supportive and responsive leadership: Our hospital has a strong, seasoned leadership team, with mentoring and coaching opportunities available to professionals interested in growing their career in the mental health industry. 

What Is It Like to Work at Peachford?

Our patients bring with them many different clinical challenges and high acuity illnesses that require specific and individualized care. We balance our busy work environment with a strong commitment to teamwork and a sense of humor that makes Peachford a challenging, yet fun place to work.

While taking care of our patients, we also strive to take care of each other.  Our Nurses are empowered to care for their patients using their own personal style, while delivering superior quality care. If you like a challenge and the satisfaction of working with other professionals to get patients the help they need, Peachford is the right place for you.

Peachford Hospital: Bringing Life Into Balance.

Peachford Hospital is the one of the largest private behavioral health and addictive disease treatment facilities in the nation and has been providing compassionate care to adolescents for over 50 years.  Our 38-acre wooded campus is located in the beautiful Dunwoody neighborhood of Atlanta.

Peachford offers inpatient acute care, as well as partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for patients aged 4 to 94.

For more information on our hospital, follow us on online:

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  • Website: peachford.com 

Wait! There’s More….

Peachford Hospital offers full time employees a comprehensive benefits package including:

  • Health, Dental and Vision Plans
  • 23-days of Paid Time Off
  • Pet Insurance
  • 401k Retirement Plan with company match
  • Continuing Education Opportunities
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Stock Purchase Plan

What Happens Next?

After you submit your resume, a member of our nurse recruiting team will review your qualifications and experience and may reach out to you schedule you for an onsite interview. 

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

At UHS and all subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates with matching skillset and experience with the best possible career at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc. If you feel suspicious of a job posting or job-related email, let us know by contacting us at:  .

Qualifications

What Does Peachford Require for this Role?

A valid State of Georgia Nursing (RN) (Registered Nurse) License or eNLC License from a participating state and one year of nursing experience is required. Previous psychiatric, behavioral or mental health nursing experience is helpful but not required. 

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Local area, Relocation package,

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