Nurse - Outpatient and Community Based Services

Spurwink; Bridgton (ME); On-site; USD 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance

Employer Paid Life Insurance and Short

Long Term Disability

Retirement Account with Matching

Tuition Reimbursement

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Flexible Scheduling

Generous Paid Time Off

Same Day Pay

Discounts on various services

Job summary

Spurwink is seeking a collaborative RN to work with adults and children with mental health needs across programs. The role includes nursing consultation, health data interpretation, and integrating wellness goals into treatment plans.

Responsibilities include home visits, community outreach, and coordination with care providers to support client independence. This full-time position has no nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call work required, with a pay rate of $32.00-$38.00 per hour based on

Qualifications

• Maine licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) is required.
• Three years of post-licensure experience in community health, family, pediatric, hospital, or psychiatric nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engage, assess, monitor, educate, coordinate, and intervene to improve care and outcomes.
• Educate clients and families about health, safety, self-management, medications, and care access.
• Conduct in-person visits in community, home, hospital, or facility settings.
• Facilitate group treatment and education interventions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and provide health information on medical history, medications, and determinants of health.
• Assist with ISP development and document nursing care in the EMR and other records.
• Coordinate referrals and maintain contacts with community providers; follow Health Home MOUs.
• Maintain caseload size, billing, and attestation requirements.
• Collect and report data to support program evaluation and outcomes.

Skills

Nursing care

Care coordination

Communication

Home visits

Data interpretation

Team collaboration

Education

Maine RN licensure

Tools

HealthInfoNet

Electronic Health Record (EHR)

PowerPoint

Job description

Spurwink is looking for a collaborative, engaging, and driven Registered Nurse (RN) with unencumbered Maine licensure to join our interdisciplinary team serving adults and children with a variety of mental health needs, including serious mental illness and substance use disorders.

This position will work across programs to address primary prevention, health promotion, and population health across regional services by:

Providing nursing consultation to staff, interpreting health data, and helping to integrate health and wellness goals into client treatment plans. Nursing care includes a focus on community outreach, community integration, education, and time-limited patient-centered care aiming towards promoting independence in managing and maintaining optimal health. Improving communication and collaboration with all care providers across the healthcare spectrum. Conduct home visits as appropriate for individuals and families in care coordination, providing health education, consultation, and collaborative support to further their mental and physical health goals.

This is a full-time position with no nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call work required. The pay is $32.00-$38.00 per hour depending on experience.

DUTIES:

• Effectively engage, assess, monitor, educate, coordinate, and provide interventions for participants and families to improve quality of care and participant health outcomes.
• Provide participant, family/caregiver teaching and education about health and wellness, safety factors, self-management skills, medications, self-monitoring, action plans, long-term planning, when and how to access care.
• Conduct in-person visits with participants in the community, in participants' homes, hospitals and care facilities, physician offices, based on the participants' needs.
• Facilitate group treatment and education interventions.
• Participates as a member of a multidisciplinary team, by providing health information related to participant medical history and needs, medications, co-morbidities, immunizations, dietary needs, and the behavioral, social, psychological, and environmental determinants of health.
• Assist treatment team with development, implementation and ongoing monitoring of ISPs, and document ongoing nursing care and interventions in the electronic health record and elsewhere.
• Maintain regular contact, effectively collaborate with, and facilitate referrals to community providers to advocate on behalf of, and improve the care for, participants. Adhere to procedures and practices outlined in Health Home MOUs.
• Maintain expectations related to caseload size, billing, and attestation requirements.
• Maintain required records and documentation. Collect, track, and submit participant related data to support evaluation of participant outcomes, program goals and performance.
• Serve as a resource for staff, colleagues, and external members of a participant's care team.
• Provide back-up for Medical Assistant to coordinate delivery of samples from drug reps, Enroll/ re-enroll patients in the patient assistance programs, administer antipsychotic injections and oral medications, pack medication caddies, and assist with appointment scheduling.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Educational Requirements: Maine licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).

Minimum Experience Requirements: Three years of post-licensure experience in community health nursing, family nursing, pediatric nursing, hospital, or psychiatric nursing preferred. Direct service experience working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental disabilities is preferred. Must have the ability to exercise professional judgment in making decisions, communicate effectively with service recipients, family members, case managers, administrators, community providers, and other selected personnel. Must possess a high level of organizational and time management skills. Must be computer literate and able to navigate an electronic medical health record, utilize HealthInfoNet, generate PowerPoint presentations, and present basic data summaries to management. Knowledge of psychosocial, mental health, and vocational assessments, counseling theory such as MI, CBT, and DBT, physical and psychological effects of mental illness and substance abuse preferred.Must maintain a current driver's license and a clean driving record as outlined in Spurwink's Driving Policy.

Competitive Benefits Package:

• Health/Dental/Vision /Pet Insurance
• Employer Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability
• Retirement Account with Matching Contribution (after one year of service)
• Scholarships to ME Community Colleges
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 25% Tuition Reimbursement for UNE Master of Social Work Program
• Eligible employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
• Quality Supervision and Paid Training Opportunities
• Career Advancement Opportunities
• Flexibility of Schedules
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Opportunity for Same Day Pay
• Health Plan Enrollees – Access to Several Discounts (Hotels, Electronics, Auto, Groceries, Event Tickets, and More)

Spurwink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.