Registered Nurse - Homeless Outreach Stabilization Team (HOST)

About the job

Frontier Behavioral Health in Spokane is hiring a full-time registered nurse (RN) for its Homeless Outreach Stabilization Team (HOST), a multi-disciplinary team that provides ongoing services to homeless people. The RN works mainly with clients who need psychiatric and other medical attention, shares caseload duties for coordinating the team's medication services and meets clients in shelters, encampments, transit hubs, train stations and other community spots.

HOST offers case management, peer support, rehabilitative support, medical services and substance abuse treatment in the community for homeless people with behavioral health challenges who haven't benefited from traditional outpatient programs. A nurse manager provides clinical oversight and evaluation for this position.

What you'll do

• Coordinate the medical side of care, including monitoring and giving medications in ways that fit each client's needs
• Assess mental status on an ongoing basis, along with the benefits and side effects of current treatment
• Assess clients' health care needs and connect them with urgent, primary and specialty health services, keeping those connections going
• Teach clients about their treatment and their medical and mental health conditions, and run health promotion activities such as wellness clinics, smoking cessation efforts and disease prevention education
• Provide some ongoing case management to homeless and formerly homeless adults as part of the team
• Advocate for clients' access to community resources, especially primary care, and work with community providers to keep care continuous
• Train and consult with other staff on clients' medical and mental health issues, and consult the assigned nurse manager as needed
• Take part in psychiatric consultation, supervision, program meetings, in-service trainings, case conferences and clinical reviews for team clients
• Keep clinical records current and complete, follow agency clinical accountability policies and take part in quality assurance reviews and program research and evaluation

What you need

• A registered nurse (RN) license in the State of Washington
• One year of experience directly treating people with mental illness
• Active BLS within 90 days of hire, kept current
• An unrestricted, valid driver's license and active car insurance, the ability to pass a driving test and motor vehicle screening, and willingness to use your own vehicle for work
• Training or experience in physical and psychological assessment and evaluation and in psychiatric treatment modalities, and working knowledge of psychotropic medications, what they're used for and their side effects
• Able to communicate and engage well with people of varied backgrounds, trauma experiences, cultures, education levels and socio-economic status
• Daily client work in community settings such as homes, group living settings, hospitals, shelters and the street, some of which may not be clean or habitable
• Able to drive, walk up to several city blocks over varied terrain, climb stairs and get in and out of vehicles often
• Daily computer use, and you may need to lift 10 to 20 pounds

Preferred

• Experience with the co-occurring disorder population

Schedule

• Full-time
• Daily travel between work sites and out to clients in the community, in FBH-owned vehicles or your own

Benefits

• A sign-on bonus
• Paid time off accruing up to 26 days in the first year, plus 9 paid federal holidays
• Paid sick and safe time, plus extended sick leave
• A compressed workweek option for some positions, adding up to 26 more days off a year
• Medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending accounts
• A 403b retirement plan with a standard 3% employer contribution and an additional 3% employer match
• Company-paid life insurance starting the first of the month after 6 months of employment
• No-cost supervision for staff pursuing clinical licensure
• Federal and state loan forgiveness for qualifying programs
• Reimbursement of the license or certification application fee the position requires
• A free employee assistance program and staff discounts with FBH partners around Spokane