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AECOM Registered Nurse – Urgent Care / Emergency Room in Raleigh, North Carolina
Company Description
At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.
We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.
We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.
When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.
Job Description
AECOM is seeking a Registered Nurse to support unaccompanied migrant children within Health and Human Services (HHS) Influx Facilities. An effective and empathetic Registered Nurse is a key success factor for providing a safe and secure environment for the children while they are seeking pathway to a timely reunification. The Registered Nurse will be responsible for the Key Responsibilities listed below. The final location of this program is yet to be determined. You must be willing to consider relocating or it may be possible for temporary living and/or travel expenses to be reimbursed.
About the opportunity
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) historically cares for Unaccompanied Children (UC) crossing into the United States. As required by the Flores Settlement Agreement, ORR must deliver safe, child friendly care for these children. ORR needs a trusted partner to manage and provide a full spectrum of services. To achieve ORR’s objectives, AECOM has partnered with industry leading firms to create TeamCARE .
The Registered Nurse will report directly to the Medical director and will work with the Manager of Medical Services to provide cohesive, compliant medical care for the HHS Influx facility.
Key Responsibilities
The RN effectively delegates, directs and assists licensed and ancillary team members; assumes accountability for quality patient outcomes; exhibits sensitivity to cultural, ethnic and religious diversity in all interactions; maintains involvement in activities aimed toward the achievement of unit and the department's strategic goals and objectives and demonstrates professional responsibility and accountability for his/her own practice and supports the company's philosophy of nursing
Communicate closely with all members of the medical team, including patients
Provide culturally sensitive and trauma informed clinical care
provide outstanding patient service, maintaining a compassionate and welcoming atmosphere and respond quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment
Be able to function in multiple roles at the site
Follows site policies and procedures
Participates in department quality improvement activities, staff educational programs, attends departmental meetings, and demonstrates and maintains clinical competency in the delivery of patient care services in accordance with company guidelines
Assess and coordinate patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team
Maintain the highest standards of professional conduct by delivering care in a manner that protects and preserves the patient’s dignity, rights, values, beliefs, privacy and autonomy
Implements Evidence Based Practice
Function as a charge nurse for unit
Actual roles and responsibilities will vary by position
Ability to Work 12 hour shifts
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree, and RN with 2+ years of experience in urgent care or emergency room setting or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
Effective verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present information clearly and professionally
Strong interpersonal skills
Good organizational skills
Licensure:
- Active compact Registered Nurses license
Additional Information
This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.
Relocation and/or temporary living expenses may be considered
This position will subject to a pre-employment background screen to include, but not limited to the following:
A FBI fingerprint check of national and state criminal history repositories;
A child protective services check with the staff’s State(s) of U.S. residence for the last five years; and
Background investigation updates at a minimum of every five years of the staff/contractor/volunteer’s start date or last background investigation update. Care provider facilities may require the updated background investigation more frequently as necessary.
This position may require pre-employment drug screening
Employees will be required to adhere to the following code of conduct:
Staff Code of Conduct
ORR is committed to providing a safe environment to all UAC in its care, including protecting UAC from sexual abuse and sexual harassment. In order to ensure the safety of UAC, who are under the age of 18, care provider facility staff, contractors, and volunteers must comply with the following Code of Conduct. This code of conduct does not apply to foster parents, who are subject to State licensing requirements.
Staff will not engage in any form of sexual abuse or sexual harassment, as defined at Section 4.1 of ORR’s UAC Policy Guide.
Staff will not verbally or physically abuse any unaccompanied alien child.
Staff will not engage in sexual contact with anyone while on duty or while acting in the official capacity of their position.
Staff will not exchange letters, gifts, pictures, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, or social media information with any UAC in ORR care or within three years of the child’s discharge. Requests for exceptions must be submitted in writing to and approved by care provider management.
Staff may not have contact with any unaccompanied alien children outside of the care provider facility beyond that necessary to carry out job duties while the child is in ORR care or within three years of the child’s discharge. Requests for exceptions must be submitted in writing to and approved by care provider management.
Staff must confine their relationships with UAC families and sponsors to those activities which fall within the scope of the staff’s job duties. Requests for exceptions must be submitted in writing to and approved by care provider management.
Staff may not engage in a romantic or sexual relationship with a UAC while the child is in ORR care or within three years of the child’s discharge.
Staff may not live with a UAC within three years of the child’s discharge.
Staff must report knowledge, suspicion, or information about sexual abuse, sexual harassment, or inappropriate sexual behavior according to mandatory reporting laws, Federal laws and regulations, and ORR policies and procedures.
Staff with knowledge or information of a staff violating this Code of Conduct must report this knowledge or information to their supervisor.
Staff have a continuing affirmative duty to disclose any misconduct that occurs on or off duty.
With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
Join us and let’s get started.
ReqID: J10084262
Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: West
Career Area: Safety, Health & Environment
Work Location Model: On-Site