Lead Care Team LPN

Overview

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A career at Community Health Centers offers a unique opportunity to join a team that makes a real impact in our community every day, by improving individuals' health while enhancing their quality of life.

• No weekends for the majority of our centers, 10 Paid Holidays and early Fridays
• A great benefits package that includes healthcare coverage, paid time off, paid holidays, retirement plan, and more.
• Competitive compensation with advancement opportunities and tuition/training reimbursement.
• Awarded “Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation” for five consecutive years.
• Awarded “Top 100 Workplaces for Growing Families” by Orlando Sentinel.
• Modernized and attractive health centers, that patients love.

Leads the clinical care team by ensuring the following:
Assists in coordinating and monitoring activities of the clinical care team, coordination of quality patient care, lab work, administering medications and immunizations, and performing routine clinical duties.

• Coordinates and facilitates structured communication to center care team members and providers relating to patient care coordination, pre-visit planning, huddles, one-on-one communication, emails, patient contact and documentation of any services provided and/or health care related concerns/needs that have arisen since last visit.
• Participates in team meetings to communicate and address patient care and operational requirements.
• Responsible for leading or ensuring the huddles are completed daily and uploaded as indicated.
• Routine clinical duties:
  • Answers the telephone in a courteous and professional manner.
  • Collects patient history and gathers information pertinent to visit; documents all communication to patients and clinicians.
  • Continuous management of the care team’s schedule(s), such as work-ins, walk-ins, open-access and patient flow.
  • Conducts chart reviews for documentation, billing, and/or grammatical errors.
  • Administers immunizations and medications as ordered while utilizing the rights of safe medication administration.
  • Communicates with clinician frequently regarding patient care.
  • Faxes orders or prescriptions to hospitals, pharmacies, or other vendors.
  • Assists patient and clinician in exam areas.
  • Gives treatments/procedures as directed.
  • Assists clinicians with administrative paperwork.
  • Schedules patient appointments as needed.
  • Labels and processes specimens.
  • May draw blood from patients.
  • Communicates to assigned supervisor/provider or leads all cases needing a higher level of intervention in a timely fashion.
  • Assists with various procedures (such as EKG, wound care, VFC, and all other procedures) and participates in chaperoning as indicated.
  • Performs various tests (glucose, hemoglobin, strep, and other required tests).
• Specific Duties:
  • Ensures daily and weekly tasks are completed for their discipline.
  • Ensures medical equipment for each discipline is in proper working order.
  • Ensures that each clinical support staff (CSS) assigned to their room by the end of the workday has properly stocked the exam rooms.
  • Assists team in resolving any encountered problems. Reports unresolved matters to the Nurse Manager.
  • Provides feedback to the Nurse Manager for 90 day or annual evaluations for members of their team.
  • Responsible for completing annual clinical competencies.
  • Responsible for creating the clinical schedule and assigning daily, weekly, and monthly clinical duties with nurse managers’ approval.
  • Revises the daily schedule as needed due to callouts; reports changes to the Nurse Manager. Maintains workflow and reports issues that may impede the work environment.
  • Assigns and monitors quality controls logs, abnormal pap tracking, outstanding orders, and related items; responsible for their completion.
  • Assists with orientation of newly hired staff and students.
  • May order medications, vaccines, and medical supplies with the Nurse Manager’s approval.
  • Assist the Nurse Manager with VFC, VFA, HRSA monitoring,…