Nurse, Integrated Care

TAPESTRY 360 HEALTH • Chicago, IL

13d • $60,000 - $100,000

About The Position

The Integrated Care Nurse acts as a liaison between primary care and behavioral health providers, ensuring patient care integration and facilitating communication between providers and partner agency care teams (i.e. nurses, social workers). The Integrated Care Nurse assists with direction of daily patient visits, assessment and triage, care coordination, and health education and information. The Integrated Care Nurse works collaboratively to assure the maintenance of a safe patient care environment, safe transition to care both within Tapestry 360 Health and with other community agencies and contributes to quality assurance and other organizational activities as needed. The Integrated Care Nurse provides patient-centered, trauma-informed services to patients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction disorders.

Requirements

• Active Illinois Registered Nurse License and CPR certification required prior to hire date.
• Behavioral health experience required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with 10s and 100s.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or higher preferred.
• Experience in community health, health education, care coordination and disease management preferred.
• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides phone and walk in triage, facilitates medication refills, and administers medications.
• Promotes health and well-being for patients and families by assessing health literacy, providing meaningful health information, and supporting self-management of chronic physical and mental illness.
• Supports Medical Assistants by providing information, ongoing development and training.
• Assures safe patient care environment. Oversees infection control practices and management of the supply and storage of medication.
• Performs clinical patient visits such as administering long-acting psychotropic injections, providing education and/or follow-up on diabetes care, asthma and/or other chronic diseases.
• Collaborates with care team members to support patients during transitions of care:
• Provides necessary support in the coordination of referrals, including the access of necessary tests or other values and reports as needed
• Provides information and support to patients and families and works with the care team to assure appropriate follow up.
• Fosters relationships with community agencies, recovery counselors as needed.
• Additional responsibilities may include serving as the electronic medical record superuser and/or providing group health education.
• Participates in required care team and other organizational meetings.

Benefits

• Tapestry 360 Health offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, dental insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, continuing education support and eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees