Nurse - Outpatient and Community Based Services

Spurwink Services • Portland, ME

20d

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 role provides nursing consultation to staff, interprets health data, and helps integrate health and wellness goals into client treatment plans. Nursing care emphasizes community outreach and integration, education, and time-limited, patient-centered support that promotes independence in managing and maintaining optimal health. The nurse also improves communication and collaboration among care providers and conducts home visits as appropriate to provide health education, consultation, and collaborative support for individuals’ and families’ mental and physical health goals.

This is a full-time position with no nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call work required. The hourly pay range is $32.00–$38.00, depending on experience. The position may involve in-person visits in participants’ communities and homes, as well as hospitals, care facilities, and physician offices, according to participant needs.

Requirements

• Maine licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN), unencumbered.
• Maintain a current driver’s license and a clean driving record as outlined in Spurwink’s Driving Policy.
• Ability to exercise professional judgment in making decisions.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Engage, assess, monitor, educate, coordinate, and provide interventions for participants and families to improve quality of care and health outcomes.
• Teach participants, families, and caregivers about health and wellness, safety, self-management, medications, self-monitoring, action plans, long-term planning, and when and how to access care.
• Conduct in-person visits in the community, participants’ homes, hospitals, care facilities, and physician offices based on participant needs.
• Facilitate group treatment and education interventions.
• Participate on a multidisciplinary team and share health information about participant medical histories, needs, medications, comorbidities, immunizations, dietary needs, and behavioral, social, psychological, and environmental determinants of health.
• Assist the treatment team with developing, implementing, and monitoring ISPs; document nursing care and interventions in the electronic health record and elsewhere.
• Maintain regular contact and collaborate with community providers, facilitate referrals, and advocate to improve participant care.
• Follow procedures and practices outlined in Health Home MOUs.
• Meet 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 outcomes, program goals, and performance.
• Serve as a resource for staff, colleagues, and external members of a participant’s care team.
• 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.
• Provide nursing consultation to staff, interpret health data, and help integrate health and wellness goals into client treatment plans.
• Conduct appropriate home visits to provide health education, consultation, and collaborative support.
• Improve communication and collaboration with care providers across the healthcare spectrum.

Benefits

• $5,000 sign-on bonus.
• Health, dental, vision, and pet insurance.
• Employer-paid life insurance and 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.
• 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 have access to discounts on hotels, electronics, auto, groceries, event tickets, and more.

What This Job Offers

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