Starting Pay Range -$46.80 - $49.84 /hr
Summary:This member of the Mobile Health team is responsible for assessing physical health needs; coordinating with the Mobile medicine prescriber, making appropriate referrals to community physicians; providing a range of limited wound care/cleaning and other standing orders; blood draws; providing medication education and training. This position entails working on a mobile unit in the community as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing care to houseless and unstably housed individuals.
Essential Job Responsibilities:- Provide service coordination for community members
- Triage acute and chronic medical conditions. Using appropriate judgement to determine which conditions can be treated by this team and which should be escalated to urgent or emergency care
- Providing individual supportive therapy and symptom management
- Educating and supporting clients around medication and physical health management
- Advocating for clients' rights and preferences
- Consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.
- Document client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established methods and procedures, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as clients' needs change
- With other registered nurses on the team, develop, revise, and maintain, medical treatment and medication policies and procedures including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording medical services/referrals made.
- Under the direction of the team manager and director, organize and manage the system of providing medical outreach and integrating medical services tightly into clients' individual treatment plans.
- In collaboration with other team members, manage outreach and medical supplies.
- Coordinate, schedule, and administer medical assessments of client physical health, making appropriate referrals to team prescriber for further assessment and treatment
- Provide individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings in a stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational, considers interactions on mental illness and substance abuse, and has client-determined goals.
- Provide assessment and appropriate treatment to clients with substance use disorders. Including COWS assessments, impairment assessments and emergency interventions for over-sedation.
- Responsible for medication management, scheduling doctor appointments and completing medical assessments.
Non-essential Job Functions:- Support agency mission, goals, and objectives.
- Attend staff and planning meetings as scheduled.
- Maintain communication and cooperative working relationships both within the agency and community at large.
- Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.
Education, Licensing and Experience:- Registered Nurse license
- Two to four years' experience working with chronically mentally ill adults, and current knowledge of psychopharmacology.
- Must know basic wording of mental illness symptoms and knowledge of psychological medications.
Why Work Here?CRMHS offers
AMAZING benefits aside from health and wellness (medical/dental/vision etc.) Work life balance benefits: 11 total paid holidays per year, including 2 paid floating holidays available upon hire, 24 days of PTO days in the first year and only increases from there! Career development: $325 annual allowance for career development and education with an additional 40 hours of paid time off for career development/education! And so many More!
