Berkshire County Arc

The Training RN path is weekday work: Monday–Friday 8am–4pm, forty hours, no overtime or on-call in that role. Your days center on MAP training and recertification and teaching direct-care staff the medical information they need across a network of 45+ residential homes in Berkshire and Hampden counties. Pay on the Training RN posting is listed at $38.50 an hour with a $4,000 sign-on, up to 80% of health care paid, paid vacation, sick, and personal time, and free tuition at Massachusetts state colleges. You need a current MA license, a driver’s license and insured vehicle, and two years of RN experience; disability experience is preferred. Nurses here describe multi-year relationships with the people they support, including individuals who are non-verbal, and hours that can fit parenting better than clinic or hospital schedules. Supervisory nursing still fields occasional off-hour emergency calls. Reviews on Indeed sit around 3.6/5, and relief staff have reported sixteen-hour shifts when coworkers no-show—worth weighing beside the steady Training RN calendar.

Community residential alternatives to nursing homes for people with disabilities; 70 years of disability support in the Berkshires.