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OpeningDate:10/01/2025\ Closing Date:10/15/2025\ ?Agency:Department of Human Services\ Class Title:REGISTERED NURSE I - 38131\ Salary:Anticipated Salary: \$6,381 - \$8,657 per month (\$76,572 - \$103,884 per year)\ Job Type:Salaried\ Category:Full Time\ Number of Vacancies:1

Work Hours:10:45pm - 7:00am, Rotating days off: Friday and every other weekend; 45-minute unpaid lunch

Week 1 off Friday and Saturday

Week 2 off Sunday and Friday

Nursing Services

Work Location:1000 N Main St, Anna, Illinois, 62906-1652

Division of Developmental Disabilities

Choate Mental Health & Developmental Center

Nursing Services

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Why Work for Illinois?

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Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire an independent, highly organized, and detail-oriented licensed Registered Nurse for the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center located in Anna, Illinois. This position will be responsible for performing direct nursing care for people with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. The successful candidate shall demonstrate good oral and written communication skills, be a self-starter, and be able to carry out nursing assignments pursuant to the direction of medical personnel.

Essential Functions

Provides professional nursing care to individuals served on an

assigned shift, on an assigned unit.

Provides work-related guidance, instructions and explanations to

lower-level nursing staff and other direct support staff in the care of individuals, injury reduction, health and safety, hygiene, treatment, procedures and the use of equipment.

Attends treatment team meetings to update the Interdisciplinary Team

on changes in medical status, additional medical needs and completes paperwork to document medical information in accordance with policies and guidelines.

Performs quality assurance activities including, conducting audits

and preparing Infection Control Reports.

Attends training to keep abreast of latest nursing techniques and

concepts.

Serves as Center-wide medical/nursing resource on the assigned shift

during the absence of other professional nursing personnel.

Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably

within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

Requires graduation from an approved nursing education program

resulting in an associate or diploma degree in nursing or a bachelors degree in nursing.

Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois.

This class is included as an Upward Mobility Program credential title.

Conditions of Employment

Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and

holidays on a rotation basis.

Requires the ability to serve on an on-call basis.

Requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted.

Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal

computers and basic computer skills.

Requires the ability to acquire and maintain Cardiopulmonary

Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.

Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary

to prevent injury to individual or others.

Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.

Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.

Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from

recreational use under Illinois Law.

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