Nursing Senior Manager

Description

Days Off: Saturday & Sunday

Shift: Office Day

Insurance Benefits: Dental, Life, Long-term Disability, Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage)
Other Benefits
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan

Recognized nationally as an innovator and leader in developing solutions to homelessness, DESC is a social services organization, supportive housing operator, and licensed behavioral health treatment provider focused on meeting the needs of people experiencing long-term homelessness and living with complex behavioral health and other medical conditions. Approximately 3,000 people are actively receiving services from DESC at any given point in time.

Our vision is a community where all people are shown compassion, treated with dignity, and everyone has a safe, stable, and affordable place to call home.

DESC operates five shelter/emergency housing programs, 19 permanent supportive housing facilities with over 1,750 units, several hundred additional scattered site apartments, and a range of behavioral health services including outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment, residential crisis stabilization, street outreach, mobile crisis response, and treatment for opioid use disorder.

The Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) is currently recruiting a Senior Nurse Manager to oversee nursing services within our ORCA POD Team (Patient Outreach Division) as well as our Opioid Recovery & Care Access (ORCA) Center, which will offer four overlapping types of services:

• Care to individuals in stable condition who have experienced an opioid overdose, brought to the ORCA Center by the Seattle Fire Department.
• Rapid initiation of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), including buprenorphine (sublingual and long-acting injectable) and methadone (under the “72-hour rule”, or Code of Federal regulations Title 21 §1306.07 (b)), for people with OUD, regardless of whether an opioid overdose has recently occurred.
• Harm reduction counseling and OUD-related physical and behavioral health services, such as hepatitis C testing and treatment and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.
• Follow-up care, at the ORCA Center or at times field-based, with individuals who have started MOUD to ensure support in MOUD continuation.

DESC clinical teams provide a wide range of services for eligible individuals within King County, with responsibility for providing on-going case management, psychiatric services and medical services to adults living with mental illness and/or substance use disorder. The Senior Nurse (RN) Manager has responsibilities for overseeing nursing participation in multi-disciplinary teams within which medical staff work in close collaboration, to provide appropriate and comprehensive behavioral health treatment services, as well as Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD).

Members of the ORCA POD and ORCA Center provide medication coordination/management, client education, health assessment, outreach and related services in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary teams.

The Senior Nurse Manager will provide clinical and administrative direction and coordination of efforts to Nursing Supervisors and Registered Nurses within the ORCA teams and other teams as assigned. The Senior Nurse Manager will be responsible for assuring compliance with all relevant Washington State Administrative Code (WAC), Revised Code of Washington (RCW), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Health, and contract and procedure requirements associated with the operation of a community mental health center.

This position has administrative duties associated…