Nurse - Outpatient and Community Based Services

Spurwink Services • Bridgton, ME

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About The Position

Spurwink is seeking a collaborative, engaging, and driven Registered Nurse (RN) with an unencumbered Maine license to join an interdisciplinary team serving adults and children with mental health needs, including serious mental illness and substance use disorders. The nurse works across programs to support primary prevention, health promotion, and population health across regional services. The position provides nursing consultation to staff, interprets health data, and helps incorporate health and wellness goals into client treatment plans. Nursing care emphasizes community outreach and integration, education, and time-limited, patient-centered support to promote independence in managing and maintaining optimal health. The nurse also improves communication and collaboration among care providers across the healthcare spectrum and conducts home visits as appropriate to support individuals and families with care coordination and health goals.

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

Requirements

• Unencumbered Maine licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• Three years of post-licensure experience in community health nursing, family nursing, pediatric nursing, hospital nursing, or psychiatric nursing is preferred.
• Direct-service experience with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental disabilities is preferred.
• Ability to exercise professional judgment in decision-making.
• Ability to communicate effectively with service recipients, family members, case managers, administrators, community providers, and other selected personnel.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Computer literacy and ability to navigate an electronic medical health record, use HealthInfoNet, generate PowerPoint presentations, and present basic data summaries to management.
• Current driver’s license and clean driving record in accordance with Spurwink’s Driving Policy.

Nice To Haves

• Three years of post-licensure experience in community health nursing, family nursing, pediatric nursing, hospital nursing, or psychiatric nursing.
• Direct-service experience with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental disabilities.
• Knowledge of psychosocial, mental health, and vocational assessments.
• Knowledge of counseling theories and approaches such as MI, CBT, and DBT.
• Knowledge of the physical and psychological effects of mental illness and substance abuse.

Responsibilities

• Engage, assess, monitor, educate, coordinate, and provide interventions for participants and families to improve care quality and health outcomes.
• Educate participants and families or caregivers about health and wellness, safety, self-management, medications, self-monitoring, action plans, long-term planning, and accessing care.
• Conduct in-person visits in the community, participants’ homes, hospitals, care facilities, and physician offices according to participant needs.
• Facilitate group treatment and education interventions.
• Contribute health information to multidisciplinary teams, including information about medical history and needs, medications, co-morbidities, immunizations, dietary needs, and behavioral, social, psychological, and environmental health determinants.
• Assist treatment teams with developing, implementing, and monitoring ISPs, and document nursing care and interventions in the electronic health record and elsewhere.
• Maintain contact and collaborate with community providers, facilitate referrals, advocate for participants, and improve their care.
• Follow procedures and practices outlined in Health Home MOUs.
• Meet expectations for caseload size, billing, and attestation requirements.
• Maintain required records and documentation.
• Collect, track, and submit participant data to support evaluation of outcomes, program goals, and performance.
• Serve as a resource for staff, colleagues, and external members of participants’ care teams.
• Back up the Medical Assistant by coordinating delivery of drug-representative samples, enrolling or re-enrolling patients in patient assistance programs, administering antipsychotic injections and oral medications, packing medication caddies, and assisting with appointment scheduling.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Pet insurance
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Retirement account with matching contribution after one year of service
• Scholarships to Maine community colleges
• Tuition reimbursement
• 25% tuition reimbursement for the UNE Master of Social Work program
• Eligibility 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
• Discounts for health plan enrollees on hotels, electronics, auto, groceries, event tickets, and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed