04/09/2025
Job opening - DCFS Regional Nurse - Mount Vernon, IL
Please apply though the link at the bottom.
Job Requisition ID: 49332
Closing Date: 09/12/2025
Agency: Department of Children and Family Services
Class Title: CHILD WELFARE NURSE SPECIALIST - 07197
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary $8,767 Monthly Full Salary Range $7,172 - $9,752/Monthly
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Jefferson
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC023 Registered Nurses, INA
Merit Comp Code:
Child Welfare Nurse Specialist REQ—49332 Mount Vernon: Child Welfare Nurse Specialist Expires 9-12-25. Provides consultation and analysis on health-related concerns in investigation reports, complex health care records and other related materials. Provides updated information relative to referral procedures and other protocols involving community health care or health related services. In collaboration with the department’s health works networks and assigned skilled, residential and acute psychiatric facilities, provides quality assurance monitoring to ensure that health care services are provided to department youth in care. Provides input in staffing, Clinical Intervention Placement Preservation (CIPP) Teams, peer reviews, expanded capacities, clinical placement reviews and the evaluation of health issues of youth in care in permanency planning. Through quality assurance monitoring initiatives, assesses and evaluates the delivery of health care services. Develops and conducts bi-annual in-service training sessions for professional staff, caregivers and providers, presenting information regarding identified health related issues and health care services. RC023
Regional Nurse