Program Nurse (Registered Nurse II)

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Job Requisition ID: 47072

Opening Date: 06/02/2025
Closing Date: 06/13/2025
​Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: REGISTERED NURSE II - 38132 
Skill Option: None 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: (Eff 7/1/25) $7,172 - $9,752/month ($86,064 - $117,024/year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Lee
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC023

Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire an energetic licensed Registered Nurse to serve as Program Nurse for the Mabley Developmental Center located in Dixon Illinois. The incumbent will coordinate medical and nursing care for individuals on assigned shift, reviewing daily program medical reports and determining medical problems needing physician review.  Provides information to physician and assists physician with rounds. The Mabley Developmental Center serves a broad spectrum of individuals with behavioral and medical needs.

Essential Functions

• Under direction of the Director of Nursing, serves as Program Nurse.
• Participates as a member of the unit’s ID Team.
• Serves as designated lead worker.
• Coordinates facility-wide clinics for individuals as well as supplies for the Center in the absence of the regular assigned staff member.
• Prepares and maintains records and/or reports needed to adequately document nursing care plans.
• Conducts in-service training sessions for the center nursing staff.
• Serves as Center-Wide medical/nursing resource during the absence of other professional nursing personnel on the assigned shift.
• Serves as chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee and serves on other facility committees.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires (a) graduation from an approved nursing education program resulting in an associate or diploma degree in nursing and two years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience OR (b) a bachelor’s degree in nursing and one year of professional nursing experience OR (c) a master’s degree in nursing.
• Requires licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires ability to acquire and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
• Requires the ability to obtain the Certification of Infection Prevention and Control (CIC) within two years in accordance with the Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation issued 03/09/2020, Executive Order 2020-10 and the Department of Human Services operational efforts to meet urgent public health conditions.
• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays on a rotation basis.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.  
• Requires the ability to serve on an on-call basis.
• Requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted.
• Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as medically necessary to prevent injury to the patient or others.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Work Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm; Monday-Friday; 30-minute unpaid lunch

Nursing

Work Location: 1120 Washington Ave, Dixon, Illinois, 61021-1258

Division of Developmental Disabilities

Mabley Developmental Center

Assigned Shifts

Agency Contact: DHS.HiringUnit@illinois.gov

Posting Group: Health Services; Social Services

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