Assistant Nurse Manager; LPN or RN at Fora Health Portland

Assistant Nurse Manager (LPN or RN)

Portland, OR.

Department/Program: Medical

Reports To: Nurse Manager

Status: Full-Time

Pay Grade: Exempt

Date Revised: 6.6.2025

Signing Bonus: $3,000

The mission of Fora Health is to work with individuals, families, and communities to create freedom from addiction. We are committed to providing a wide range of accessible, coordinated, and well-integrated services that benefit the community and support our patients to recover and maintain recovery from addiction.

At a minimum, each employee will:

Position Summary

• Trains, leads, and supervises nursing and patient care assistant (PCA) staff under the direction of the Nurse Manager.
• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager on completion of supervisions, performance reviews, IR review, timecards, hiring interviews and other duties as assigned.
• Shares 24/7 staffing call with Nurse Manager.
• In collaboration with medical department leadership, supports direction of nursing/PCA service programming and supports interdepartmental coordination of care.
• Collaborates with 3.7 Residential (Wolfpack Program) staff on the care of Wolfpack patients in transitional beds in the withdrawal management unit, ensuring smooth transitions to residential floor.
• Ensures safe, quality care through adherence to medical policies and procedures.
• As needed supports coverage for other Fora levels of care, including 3.7R (Wolfpack) and outpatient injections of long-acting MAT medications (Brixadi, Sublocade, Vivitrol).
• Other duties as assigned.

Nursing Responsibilities

• Follow medical policies and procedures for providing medical care for patients withdrawing from drugs and alcohol as well as for patients requiring medical monitoring in residential care. These duties include but are not limited to: monitoring vital signs, performing lab testing, nursing assessments, transition planning and medication administration.
• Triage patient medical concerns appropriately, referring patients with medical needs to LMP.
• Perform initial intakes, which include gathering and documenting medical & social history, patient needs and goals.
• Monitor, interpret and organize medical paperwork, records and lab results.
• Interpret lab results and notify LMP for critical values.
• Maintain an accurate medication administration record.
• Perform accurate medication reconciliation from screening to admission to discharge.
• Maintain accurate count and storage of all controlled medications.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Clinical Coordination of Care

• Inform patient of confidentiality rights, program procedures that safeguard them, and the exceptions imposed by regulations. Protect patient rights to privacy and confidentiality in the communications of patient information.
• Develop collaborative relationships with all members of the treatment team and any other agency with whom the patient is engaged.
• Explain to the patient, in clear language, the necessity for and process of referral.
• Collaborate and communicate issues/concerns with the treatment team on clinical and non-clinical issues about patient transitions.
• Attends and participates in all treatment team meetings as assigned.
• Attends all supervision meetings as assigned.
• Maintains and strengthens good working relationships with clinical team members and management.
• Communicates and coordinates effectively with staff from other departments.
• Performs related tasks as assigned.

Counseling and Education

• Role model healthy styles of communication and behavior, using non-violent communication, verbal de-escalation, and demonstrating appropriate physical and emotional boundaries. Maintain…