Registered Nurse III

Overview

Life Long Medical Care has an amazing opportunity for a highly motivated Registered Nurse III to join our multidisciplinary team providing exceptional primary care services at our Medical Respite location in Oakland, CA. The Registered Nurse (RN) - III is an integral member of Life Long Medical Care's multidisciplinary Medical Respite team, working alongside medical providers, case managers, and social workers/therapists to deliver high-quality, trauma-informed care.

The RN provides direct nursing services to people experiencing homelessness who are recovering from acute illness or injury in a voluntary, short-term residential setting. Responsibilities include clinical assessment, medication management, wound care, care planning, health education, and coordination of follow-up services. The RN plays a critical role in promoting recovery, reducing hospital readmissions, and supporting clients in transitioning to ongoing primary care, behavioral health, and housing resources during their respite stay.

We offer ongoing education and collaboration with medical and behavioral health providers to ensure optimal health outcomes for our patient populations. If you are looking for an exciting and fulfilling career in a supportive and innovative work environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

This position is represented by SEIU-UHW. Salaries and benefits are set by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and an employee in this position must remain a member in good standing of SEIU-UHW, as defined in the CBA.

About us:

As a Federally Qualified Health Center in Northern California with over 45 years of dedicated service to the community, Life Long serves over 66,000 patients in the East Bay Area's socio-economically underserved regions. We provide medical, dental, behavioral health, and school-based services at more than 15 primary care sites across Oakland, Berkeley, and West Contra Costa County. From opening a residential respite program for homeless persons discharged from the hospital to offering free testing to the community, we are innovative and responsive to our times' social and medical needs.

We provide an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and with which our patients can identify. To this end, we seek candidates who reflect the diversity of the East Bay communities we serve.

Benefits:

Compensation: $116,000 - $135,,000 year, depending on years licensed. Excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision (including dependent and domestic partner coverage), generous leave benefits including nine paid holidays, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) retirement savings plan, and commuter benefits.

Responsibilities

* Manages the delivery of the health care services at the Medical Respite program site and assists staff in the provision of care.

* Coordinates services with the multidisciplinary team and support staff engaged in case management, evaluation, education, diagnosis, and treatment of medical needs, drug addiction, and mental health disorders

* Participates in weekly staff meetings for clinical management, as part of a multidisciplinary managed care team.

* Consults on clinically and psycho-socially difficult clients in the areas of, but not limited to, wound care, medication management, mental health, nursing procedures, and case management.

* Consults with MDs, NPs and primary care RNs for ongoing disease care management included but not limited to HIV/AIDS, diabetes, COPD, Hepatitis C, end stage renal disease, and infectious skin diseases.

* Coordinates with referral sources, ensures referrals are appropriate, and participates in warm handoff to primary care providers for existing residents

* Promotes effective communication.

* Performs related functions as required.

* Coordinates primary care clinic services with other providers and agencies.

* Coordinates with Care Transitions team for all hospitalized patients to ensure timely follow up and return to primary care.

* Uses clinician-approved standing orders to order labs and preventive screenings, and to refill routine medications.

* Coordinates care closely with other team members to identify patient self-care goals and to assure that medical and psychosocial needs are met.

* Accurately collect information relative to the clients' condition, assuring proper triage and disposition based on each client's level of acuity.

* Effectively perform clinical tasks including, but not limited to: venipuncture, immunizations, providing client education, both individually and in group settings, assisting medical providers with examinations as needed.

* Regularly assist clients in negotiating the health care system.

* Effectively collaborate with other team members to maintain an adequate stock of medications and other supplies in the clinic and to review incoming laboratory results to assure providers are notified of any abnormal labs in a timely manner.

* Regularly seek to update and maintain a current level of knowledge relative to…