Full-Time Nursing Care Manager - RN Cheshire Prospec

GIL Foundation•Prospect, CT

22d•$40 - $45•Hybrid

About The Position

GIL Foundation is seeking a full-time Registered Nurse to supervise nursing care for 15–16 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities across three community-based group-home programs in Prospect and Cheshire, Connecticut. The Nurse Care Manager assesses, coordinates, implements, and monitors residents’ healthcare plans and services, ensuring care and documentation meet Connecticut DDS and other regulatory requirements. The role includes staff training and medication-administration oversight and delegation, collaboration with families and clinical and program teams, and local travel between program sites. The position offers flexible scheduling and a hybrid work arrangement, with work performed at program sites, in the office, and remotely as needed. After-hours, weekend, and holiday nursing on-call coverage is secured separately; the posting states no on-call or weekend requirement for this position. GIL Foundation is a private nonprofit serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism in Connecticut. The organization emphasizes compassionate, ethical, high-quality community care and provides administrative and management support to its nursing team.

Requirements

Current Connecticut RN license in good standing.
Intermediate computer skills, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and Therap.
Strong organization, responsibility, diligence, attention to detail, and follow-through.
Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, anticipate and identify problems or needs, and recommend and implement appropriate solutions.
Maintain confidentiality and safeguard resident and personnel records in accordance with agency policy, HIPAA, and state regulations.
Integrity, a strong work ethic, and a desire to serve individuals with special needs in a nonprofit environment.
Valid Connecticut driver’s license.
Successfully complete all pre-employment background checks.
Flexibility and availability appropriate to the needs of a 24-hour-care environment; the posting states that after-hours, weekend, and holiday on-call services are provided separately and that this role has no on-call or weekend requirement.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the intellectual and developmental disabilities population or the Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS); preferred but not required.
Coachability, interest in personal development, eagerness to learn, and willingness to ask questions.
Compassionate, patient, flexible, and effective in mentoring and training staff.

Responsibilities

Assess medical care needs and maintain related documentation in compliance with Connecticut DDS and other regulatory requirements; develop and implement data-management, nursing-directive, and quality-review systems.
Assess, coordinate, implement, and monitor healthcare plans and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Review and revise medical and nursing plans periodically and as needed using supporting data, and ensure reports are completed and reviewed promptly.
Complete documentation, summaries, medication-history plans, charts, and other materials required for program implementation and Program Review and Human Rights Committee processes.
Review, record, and maintain required records and data, including nursing assessments, self-medication assessments, nursing reviews, medication-administration records, healthcare assessments, and referrals.
Coordinate the exchange of information about support services, such as occupational, physical, and speech therapy, registered dietitian, and behavioral services, with planning teams, program managers, psychiatrists, consultants, and direct support staff.
Work with clinical staff to develop, implement, and revise individual plans.
Attend and participate in individual planning, planning and support team, and other relevant meetings, including staff meetings as needed.
Train and assist staff in skills related to participants’ medical needs and support plans, and monitor and supervise implementation.
Collaborate with managers, clinical staff, and direct support staff to address concerns, activities, and outcomes; update and modify strategies as needed.
Monitor, implement, and train staff on medication-administration procedures.
Schedule and facilitate doctor appointments, treatments, and laboratory work as needed to support program management.
Provide support, advocacy, and consultation to families, ancillary agencies, physicians, and other professionals.
Travel locally between Prospect and Cheshire sites to observe participants and monitor programs and staff implementing medical-support strategies.
Provide services with care, compassion, ethics, and professionalism.
Maintain flexibility and availability to consult, respond to emergencies, and provide solutions for participants’ medical and clinical needs.

Benefits

Employee paid time off.
Employee medical health benefits, 100% employer-paid for the worker.
Dependent medical health benefits, 50% employer-paid for dependents.
Enhanced compensation for full-time employees who waive medical benefits.
Salary-based life insurance.
Health Savings Account plans.
Flexible Spending Account plans.
Supplemental benefit plans, including AFLAC, legal, and identity-theft coverage.
401(k) employee retirement plans.
Employee referral incentive plan.
Mileage and travel reimbursement.
Laptop and cell phone provided.
Flexible scheduling and work/life-balance caseload.
Supportive, casual work environment.