Registered NURSE - Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment Featured Tupelo, MS

REGISTERED NURSE
- Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Tupelo, Mississippi | Full-time | On-site | Weekday schedule

Protect what matters. Improve what does not work. We need a nurse who can hold firm on safety, think clearly when the answer is not black and white, and help build a healthier clinic around the people we serve.

• Location: Tupelo, Mississippi, 100% on-site
• Setting: Outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment clinic
• Regular schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a one-hour lunch
• Employment: Full-time, salaried, W-2
• Base salary: $50,000 to $62,000 annually
  , commensurate with experience and credentials
• Additional pay: Incentive opportunities may become available only after at least 90 days of employment and demonstrated competence in the role
• Reports to: Executive Director, with a secondary reporting line to the Chief Administrative Officer, who also serves as Compliance and Quality Assurance Officer
• This is an outpatient clinic role, not a residential, inpatient, or overnight nursing position.
• Some clients are seen in the evening, so the nurse may occasionally work a planned later start and end time. Although this is intentionally a weekday position, exceptional circumstances may require limited availability outside standard hours, such as a client emergency, staffing gap, survey or inspection, or urgent clinic event. These occasions are the exception, not the routine.

• Own the medical side
• We are an outpatient substance use disorder treatment clinic looking for a Registered Nurse who wants to own the nursing and medical coordination side of client care, not just get through a shift.
• This is a small, close clinical team. You will be the nurse the rest of the staff turns to for a set of vitals, a read on whether something looks off, or the lab that has to be drawn before a client leaves the building. You will be visible, busy, and trusted with real autonomy. If you like being the person who catches things, solves problems, and closes loops, this is a strong fit.
• Notice it. Act on it. Close the loop.

• One thing to understand about this population before you apply: many of our clients are not receiving regular primary care anywhere else. Showing up for treatment may already be the hardest thing they do that week. A routine physical, dental visit, or follow-up appointment is often not happening unless someone here notices the need and helps make the connection.
• For some clients, your assessment may be the only real medical evaluation they receive all year.
• Hypertension, untreated diabetes, infections, liver disease, dental abscesses, injuries, pregnancy, and other health concerns show up here first, but only if the nurse actually looks. That is why we expect a real head-to-toe assessment, not a form filled in from memory.

• Substance use treatment does not always fit neatly into a policy binder. Clients are complicated, resources are imperfect,