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Location

Fontana, CA | United States

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Job description

Telecare's mission is to deliver excellent and effective behavioral health services that engage individuals in recovering their health, hopes, and dreams. Telecare continues to advance cultural diversity, humility, equity, and inclusion at all levels of our organization by hiring mental health peers, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans, and all belief systems.


The Wellspring Center is a 16-bed crisis residential treatment (CRT) program in San Bernardino County, located in the city of Fontana, serving adults and older adults. Wellspring Center aims to stabilize individuals in acute crises in order to eliminate or shorten the need for inpatient hospitalization. Wellspring Center will provide intensive and structured psychosocial recovery services 24/7 in a non-institutional, welcoming, safe, and respectful environment.


Full Time; DAYS 8:00 am - 5:00 pm; Monday - Friday

Expected starting wage range $105,541.80 - $130,380.12. Telecare applies geographic differentials to its pay ranges. The pay range assigned to this role will be based on the geographic location from which the role is performed. Starting pay is commensurate with relevant experience above the minimum requirements.


POSITION SUMMARY
The Nurse Coordinator is a treatment team member who is responsible for supervising designated staff and performs evaluations. The Nurse Coordinator ensures that the physical and psychological needs of members served through direct and indirect services in a manner consistent with Rehabilitation and Recovery principles. S/he performs activities that may be carried out only by professional nursing personnel.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values, and beliefs in everyday language and contact with the internal and external stakeholders
• Provides supervision for designated staff
• Maintains and establishes a therapeutic relationship with members served
• Participates on multidisciplinary teams, providing information or services consistent with Recovery principles
• Provides staff training and consultation as requested
• Provides individualized education and information to members served regarding their illness, medication, side effects, etc.
• Assists the Psychiatrist and Treatment Team as needed
• Supervises the ordering of medical supplies and oversees medication system
• Ensures appropriate authorizations for medication reimbursement
• Provides linkages and referrals to other agencies
• Ensures discharges are completed effectively and efficiently
• Performs nursing assessments, interventions, medication oversight, and administration as needed
• Reports members served social, psychiatric, and physical behavior as indicated
• Reviews and implements members served service plans
• Actively participates in multidisciplinary staff meetings and treatment planning meetings
• Assists Clinical Administrator and Team members in providing other services as needed
• Provides 24-hour, on-call coverage on a rotating basis per program need and as assigned
• Accepts risks inherent in working in a community-based program
• Demonstrates knowledge of professional management of assaultive behavior techniques
• Must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training
Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at the discretion of management

Position requires transporting Members in program van (acceptable driving record)

QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
• Registered Nurse licensed to practice in the state of program operations with four (4) years of full-time experience in psychiatric mental health nursing OR
• MSN with one (1) year full-time experience OR B.S.N. with two (2) years of full-time experience in a psychiatric setting
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment
• All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification. Position requires driving, valid driver’s license, a motor vehicle clearance and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory, contractual or local requirements may apply

Preferred:
• One (1) year of experience in a community-based setting

SKILLS
• Able to work with members served with multiple mental and physical disabilities

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is occasionally required to sit, squat, kneel, twist, push, pull and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently walk, stand, bend, reach and do simple and power grasping. The position requires manual deviation, repetition and dexterity as well as Hazardous Exposure (Blood Borne Pathogens, Hospital Waste, Chemical & Infectious).


EOE AA M/F/V/Disability

If job posting references any sign-on bonus internal applicants and applicants employed with Telecare in the previous 12 months would not be eligible.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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