Outreach Registered Nurse; RN) Supervisor

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: 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 Outreach Nurse Supervisor oversees RNs and Medical Assistants within the agency who provide nursing care on an outreach basis (HOST, COAT and PACT teams), in addition to spending at least 20% of their time providing direct client care. Work is done under the supervision of the Outpatient Nurse Manager. Nursing staff within these outreach teams provide services in participants' home and in the community at least 75% of the time, working with participants in need of psychiatric and other medical attention.

All members of the team are expected to work with clients in a variety of shared functions. These teams are designed to work with individuals who have experienced (or are experiencing) chronic or multiple episodes of severe mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders and possibly homelessness. These individuals have either been unable or unwilling to participate and succeed in traditional treatment settings.

Therefore, it is critical that the members of this team work together in a collaborative manner that eliminates traditional treatment barriers.

• Oversee the PACT, COAT and HOST medication management systems. This includes reviewing medication orders, coordinating with pharmacies, communicating with housing programs and relevant program staff to ensure timely and accurate medication delivery. Administer long-acting antipsychotic medications and clearly document medication administration. Provide medication education to both clients and staff and assist clients and staff with identifying strategies to adhere to medication plans.
  
  Monitor clients' adherence to medication treatment plans, efficacy of psychiatric medications, side-effects/adverse events and communicate any changes with program psychiatrist(s) and other staff as needed. Coordinate continuity of care regarding medications between DESC and other hospitals and jails.
• Provide patient education regarding acute and chronic illnesses, treatments, and medications.
• Provide education to team members regarding health conditions.
• In coordination with PACT nurses, complete the PACT revised comprehensive health assessment on all assigned patients every 6 months. This includes assessing past medical history from client report, internal and external agency records, screening and monitoring physical health and dental health, assessment of health risk factors…