Registered Nurse Outpatient - Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)

About the job

Frontier Behavioral Health is hiring a full-time outpatient registered nurse (RN) for its Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) in Spokane. In PACT, a multidisciplinary team shares a caseload of people with the most serious forms of mental illness, mostly schizophrenia spectrum disorders; the nurse works with a psychiatric care provider on medication management and administration and watches clients for medical problems and side effects.

Frontier Behavioral Health is a Spokane nonprofit offering evidence-based, trauma-informed treatment for adults, youth and seniors facing many kinds of behavioral health issues. Many PACT clients also face substance abuse, trauma, psychiatric hospitalizations, arrests and incarceration or homelessness, with serious difficulties in areas such as work, relationships, independent living, money management and physical health.

What you'll do

• Assess, evaluate, educate on and manage symptoms and medications for people with persistent mental illness, consulting with the psychiatrist, MHCP, hospital, community providers, the client and family or guardians
• Process and sign medication orders, complete refills and prior authorizations at a provider's request, and give medications as directed by the FBH psychiatrist
• Keep clients supplied with medications through timely refills, samples per order and FBH discretionary funds or patient assistance programs, and share key medication details with hospital staff if a client is hospitalized
• Coordinate with other medical providers, take part in health promotion, prevention and education, and teach team members to watch for psychiatric symptoms and medication side effects
• Work with clients on strategies to take their medications as prescribed
• Develop and carry out care plans with measurable objectives and reachable goals in collaboration with the client, and evaluate progress and adjust as needed
• Help clients build healthy coping skills and find resources, include their support network and community partners in care coordination, and help with staff or client classes and trainings
• Conduct risk assessments, create and carry out safety plans, and provide crisis intervention and stabilization as needed, including helping clients reach inpatient behavioral health care
• Keep client records, FBH charting, correspondence, Workday tasks and other paperwork complete, timely and confidential
• Attend required supervision and daily clinical staff meetings, and take part in required training, consultation calls and contract site visits or reviews

What you need

• An RN license in the State of Washington
• BLS certification within 90 days of hire, kept current after that
• A valid, unrestricted driver's license, passing a motor vehicle screening and a driving test, active car insurance and willingness to drive a personal vehicle for work
• Knowledge of the Washington administrative codes and statutes covering mental health treatment and service delivery, or the ability to gain it within 3 months of employment
• Knowledge of service delivery models such as groups, skills training, brief or focused therapy and community-based interventions for adults who have serious, persistent mental illness, or the ability to gain it within 3 months
• Able to communicate and engage well with people of varied backgrounds, cultures, education levels, socio-economic status and trauma experiences
• Excellent oral and written communication that is clear, positive, prompt and appropriate, while keeping client information confidential
• Serve clients in community settings every day, such as residences, group living settings, hospitals, shelters and the streets, 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 possibly lifting 10 to 20 pounds

Preferred

• One year of work experience with adults who have severe mental illness

Schedule

• Full-time
• The program runs 7 days a week, with hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Rotating weekend and holiday shifts as needed; staff who work a weekend shift can take another day off that week
• Daily travel to see clients in the community and between work sites, in FBH-owned vehicles or a personal vehicle

Benefits

• 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
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• A 403b plan with a 3% employer contribution and a further 3% employer match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Company-paid life insurance starting the first of the month after 6 months from the hire date
• A sign-on bonus
• Free licensure supervision for staff working toward clinical licensure
• Eligibility for federal and state loan forgiveness through qualifying programs
• Reimbursement of the required license or certification application fee
• A free Employee Assistance Program and staff discounts with FBH partners around Spokane