✓You’ll need

Licensure

✓Candidates from outside or within State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement – Statewide (NY HELPS) program as a Registered Nurse 1 Psychiatric if they have a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.

Qualifications

✓Register for Friday – 10/16/26 at 4:00PM:

✓Hutchings Psychiatric Center (HPC) has immediate job opportunities for Registered Nurses (RN) - previous psychiatric experience is not required. Candidates from outside or within State Service can apply.

✓Nurses at HPC are vital members of a multi-disciplinary treatment team focused on providing compassionate care through patient-centered and recovery-focused mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness including:

✓Coordinating and providing nursing care

✓Conducting nursing assessments

✓Preparing, implementing, and modifying nursing care plans

✓Providing health teaching, counseling, and education to individuals and families

✓Implementing infection control protocols and procedures

✓Observing and recording individuals' symptoms and care; reporting responses to medications or changes in health

✓Candidates within State Service can be considered for transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

✓Additional Comments

+Benefits

Medical, dental and visionPaid time offTuition assistanceShift differentials

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What you’ll do

Please join HPC forPlease join HPC for the Virtual Information Session!

Register to our VirtualRegister to our Virtual Nursing Information Session to learn more about RN opportunities at HPC:

Register for Friday – 10/16/26 at 900AM:

Register for Friday – 10/16/26 at 400PM:

Duties Description Please join HPC for the Virtual Information Session! Register to our Virtual Nursing Information Session to learn more about RN opportunities at HPC: Register for Friday – 10/16/26 at 9:00AM: https://meetny-gov.webex.com/weblink/register/re65f42efdcb4725c11c789209f3952d0 OR Register for Friday – 10/16/26 at 4:00PM: https://meetny-gov.webex.com/weblink/register/r7858ccc09331fc007443f3c76bcb5f1b Hutchings Psychiatric Center (HPC) has immediate job opportunities for Registered Nurses (RN) - previous psychiatric experience is not required. Candidates from outside or within State Service can apply. Nurses at HPC are vital members of a multi-disciplinary treatment team focused on providing compassionate care through patient-centered and recovery-focused mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness including:
Coordinating and providing nursing care
Conducting nursing assessments
Preparing, implementing, and modifying nursing care plans
Providing health teaching, counseling, and education to individuals and families
Implementing infection control protocols and procedures
Observing and recording individuals' symptoms and care; reporting responses to medications or changes in health

Candidates from outside or within State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement – Statewide (NY HELPS) program as a Registered Nurse 1 Psychiatric if they have a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State. OR Candidates within State Service can be considered for transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law. Additional Comments If you would like to join the Nursing Team and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer a generous benefits package including:
Shift Differential for evening & night shifts. 7% shift differential for evening shift. 10% shift differential for night shift.
Nurse Residency Program
Alternate Work Schedules All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including:
NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
Access to tuition assistance programs
Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
Paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave
NYS Retirement programs Background checks will be required. Additional Comments: Posted hiring rate includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for PS&T Grade 18 ($69,964), an Increase Hiring Rate ($9,612), Geographic Pay Differential ($20,000) and the posted job rate is the sum of the statutory job rate ($88,970) and Geographic Pay Differential ($20,000). Additional compensation may apply based on shift assignment. 7% shift differential for evening shift. 10% shift differential for night shift. Notes: 1. If you fail to maintain your license and/or registration once you are appointed, action will be taken to remove you from the position. 2. In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment. 3. If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment. #LI-DNI

Registered Nurse 1 Psychiatric (NY HELPS), Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Virtual Nursing Information Session - 10/16/2026, P28146

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