GENERAL FUNCTION:  Provide for the health care and daily living skill needs of foster children in a level 12 residential care facility.  Work in collaboration with contracted on-site physicians and community physicians. Interface, collaborate and train direct care and therapist staff to provide quality, comprehensive and continuous personalized care for all residents, including modeling, instruction, and supervision on lifting/transferring non-ambulatory residents when needed. Able to take a leadership role to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions. Provide basic patient care and treatments and administer prescribed medications.  Provide routine, personal healthcare such as bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, moving in/out of bed, standing and walking. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. Monitor medical needs and coordinate necessary medical appointments and follow-up.  Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with Supervisor/Manager.

QUALIFICATIONS: Current California Registered Nurse licensure. Minimum two years experience post licensure.  Knowledge of principles and practices of general pediatric and psychiatric nursing. Knowledge of psychotropic and general medications and effects on children. Knowledge and experience working with MediCal, Community Care Licensing, and the Health and Human Service Agency system of care preferred.  Must have ambulatory, auditory and visual skills to observe and physically intervene with residents when required. Must have the physical ability to lift children up to 30 pounds and walk up and down stairs on a daily, intermittent basis, when required in order to care for residents.  Must meet all employment requirements including, but not limited to current CPR certification, DOJ, FBI, and child abuse fingerprint clearance, pre-employment physical and TB clearance.