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

About DESC:

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.

DESC outpatient clinical teams provide a wide range of services for eligible individuals with mental health and/or substance use disorders within King County, with responsibility for providing on-going case management, psychiatric services and medical services to individuals experiencing a behavioral health disorder and/or a substance use disorder. The Outpatient Registered Nurse (RN) Manager has responsibilities for nursing participation in these several multi-disciplinary teams within which medical staff work in close collaboration, to provide appropriate and comprehensive outpatient behavioral health treatment services.

These teams, which presently include HOST, SAGE, PACT, Opioid Medically Assisted Treatment, among others, provide the full range of mental health case management services to a clientele of largely or solely homeless and formerly homeless adults with severe mental health conditions. Outpatient nurses and nursing supervisors provide medication coordination/management, client education, health assessment, outreach and related services in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary teams.

The RN Manager will provide clinical and administrative direction and coordination of efforts to Nursing Supervisors, Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses within the several outpatient teams. The RN Manager will also be responsible for assuring compliance with all relevant Washington State Administrative Code (WAC), Revised Code of Washington (RCW), Department of Health, and King County contract and procedure requirements associated with the operation of a community mental health center.

This position has administrative duties associated with planning, including implementation of state and county initiatives, hiring, and quality assurance/improvement, and the RN Manager will have responsibility for coordinating medical services with other team leadership. Work is done under the supervision of the Medical Director and in regular collaboration with other clinical managers and supervisors.

• Direct medical aspects of client care within multidisciplinary teams of social workers/case managers, chemical dependency professionals, peer support specialists, psychiatric nurses and nursing supervisors, psychiatric providers (MD and ARNP), pharmacists, employment specialists and other mental health and housing staff.
• Along with the Medical Director, oversee medical aspects of care, including monitoring and administration of medications in a manner that meets unique client needs.
• Provide clinical and administrative supervision of nursing staff. Establish and maintain practice standards and protocols. Assure compliance with all related licensing, DEA, and other regulations.
• Coordinate performance evaluations for nurses on a scheduled basis, and direct maintenance of supporting documentation in confidential supervisory and personnel files.
• Along with the nursing supervisors, conduct orientation and training for new nurses.
• Provide and direct education to clients regarding their treatment, medical and mental health condition.
• On-going assessment of mental status, and…