Opening Date: November 25, 2025
Closing Date: December 11, 2025
Job Class Code: 4135
Grade: 22
Salary: $37.38 - $47.10/hr. (Salary is inclusive of stipends)
The starting salary is based on education and experience. Starting salary for promotional candidates will follow contractual requirements.
Additional shift differential $3.00/hour while working 2nd shift hours
Additional shift differential $4.50/hour while working 3rd shift hours
Additional weekend differential $2.10/hour while working weekend hours
In addition, the selected candidate may qualify for a $200/month nursing student loan reimbursement.
Job Duties: This is professional nursing work involving the care and treatment of hospital patients who are emotionally, mentally or physically ill. Responsibilities include supervising and applying proper nursing principles, practices, and techniques in the care and custody of patients. Supervision may be exercised over a staff of professional and paraprofessional personnel. Work is performed under limited supervision. REPRESENTATIVE TASKS: Plans, assigns, oversees, and evaluates the work of hospital professional and paraprofessional employees in giving medical and direct care to residents of hospitals in order to ensure compliance with established standards. Assesses residents' physical and mental state and recommends possible treatment in order to apprise the physician of client's physical and mental condition. Observes and records clinical behavior of patients on individual charts in order to document patient progress, problems, and status. Assigns, leads, and monitors direct care personnel in performing nursing functions in order to comply with prescribed physician orders. Plans, develops, and implements individual treatment plans (ITP) for patients upon identification of problems in order to establish individualized treatment goals. Instructs direct care staff in nursing procedures and techniques in order to ensure knowledgeable and effective personnel. Examines medication records in order to determine whether medications have been properly and accurately dispensed. Leads treatment team meetings in order to discuss and share information regarding patient progress and needs and facility management problems.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A Bachelors Degree in Nursing or related field and two (2) years nursing experience -OR- graduation from an accredited school of nursing and three (3) years experience as a professional nurse. Experience must include one (1) year supervisory experience as a head nurse. LICENSING/REGISTRATION/CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: A license as a Registered Nurse as issued by the Maine State Board of Nursing.
Agency information:
Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center (DDPC) is a 69-bed psychiatric hospital serving the entire State of Maine that provides services for people with severe mental illness. As a member of a statewide community of care givers, DDPC collaborates with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, their community and personal supports, to provide recovery-oriented, respectful, compassionate, and effective psychiatric care and treatment in the least restrictive, safest, and most therapeutic environment we can create.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is dedicated to promoting health, safety, resilience, and opportunity for Maine people. The Department provides health and social services to approximately a third of the State's population, including children, families, older Mainers, and individuals with disabilities, mental illness, and substance use disorders. The Department also promotes public health, operates two state psychiatric hospitals, and provides oversight to health care providers.
APPLICATION INFORMATION:
For additional information about this position please contact Jennifer Iverson at 207-561-5425 or email rebecca.bennett@maine.gov .
To apply, please upload a resume and cover letter. To request a paper application, please contact Theresa Peppard at theresa.m.peppard@maine.gov.
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