Are you a Registered Nurse looking to make a difference in the lives of children and their families in Connecticut? If so, we invite you to take this opportunity to join our team at the Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center – Hospital – North & South Campus!
The State of Connecticut, Department of Children and Families (DCF) – Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center – Hospital – North Campus and Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center – Hospital – South Campus is accepting applications for multiple Per-Diem Nurse positions in Middletown and East Windsor, CT.
We welcome you to be a part of a comprehensive team of caring professionals and assist our clients/patients so they can achieve success. You will experience the opportunity to make a difference in the public sector as well as Make an ImpaCT as a Registered Professional Nurse for the state of Connecticut! We encourage you to apply today!
Position Highlights:
- A minimum of shifts per pay period as well as identified holidays are required to meet the scheduling expectations, including:
- 12 eight hour shifts within a tree (3) month period, including six (6) of these shifts as weekend shifts. At least two (2) eight hour shifts per pay period within the three (3) month period.
- One (1) winter holiday: Christmas Eve - second shift, Christmas day - first shift; New Year’s Eve – second shift; New Year’s Day – first shift.
- One (1) summer holiday: Memorial Day – first, second, third shift; July 4th – first, second, third shift; Labor Day – first, second, third shift.
- Solnit North Campus: Possible Shifts
- Per-Diem
- 1st Shift: 7:00 am – 3:330 pm
- 2nd Shift: 3:00 pm – 11:30 pm
- 3rd Shift: 11:00 pm – 7:30 am
- Solnit South Campus: Possible Shifts
- Per-Diem
- 1st Shift: 7:00 am – 3:330 pm
- 2nd Shift: 3:00 pm – 11:30 pm
- 3rd Shift: 11:00 pm – 7:30 am
In your role as a Nurse, you will have the opportunity to:
- Engage in a rewarding career
- Assist our employees so they can achieve success
- Make a difference in the public sector
- Work together in a collaborative team environment
- For a comprehensive list of duties please click here.
We believe that:
- Children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders can lead productive and satisfying lives.
- Children, youth and their families have the right and responsibility to participate in their treatment.
- No child will be refused treatment based on their ability to pay for services.
- Our services work best when integrated with community care.
About the Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center – North Campus:
The North Campus serves as a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, providing treatment to adolescent males between the ages of 13 and 17 with complex psychiatric needs. The program is designed to be the bridge from hospital to home and community or as a diversionary placement to avoid the need for a hospital stay.
The facility provides an educational program, work experience opportunities and rehabilitation including therapeutic recreation and occupational and music therapies. The Solnit Children’s Center utilizes a strength based, family centered relational approach based on youth -adult partnership. The program model has been designed to focus on treatment strategies which are trauma informed and gender responsive.
About the Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center – South Campus:
At the Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center, we treat our youth and each other with dignity and respect. It is in this relational, cultural and gender sensitive surrounding that our therapeutic milieu is based. Interdisciplinary teams develop, implement and continually assess individualized treatment plans.
Solnit – South Campus is a state-administered Psychiatric facility for Connecticut’s children who are under the age of eighteen, located on a 67-acre campus overlooking the Connecticut River in Middletown, CT. The center provides comprehensive care to children and adolescents with severe mental illness and related behavior and emotional problems who cannot be safely assessed or treated in a less restrictive setting.
The campus includes: Four coed hospital units, three female adolescent Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility cottages (PRTF), two schools, an indoor pool, playgrounds, ball field, two gyms, recreation rooms, and outdoor picnic area.
About the State of Connecticut:
Living in Connecticut allows you to live with mountains, forests, ocean fronts, rivers, and a wonderful green countryside right at your doorstep. The state has charm, elegance, and a high standard of living. Our school systems offer an outstanding education, and our communities are among the safest in the country. Connecticut experiences all four seasons and gives you the option to choose living in sophisticated country-life or living in the center of a lively city.
We encourage you to come see all that Connecticut has to offer by joining the DCF team!