Care Team Nurse
Care Team Nurse
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USD 101162 - 122964
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Job Description
Salud Para La Gente (Salud) provides high quality comprehensive and costeffective full scope primary care services to underserved lowincome communities in the Monterey Bay area including Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Salud began in Watsonville in 1978 as a storefront free clinic and with a growing need for health services became a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Today Salud is a primary health care network with four primary clinic sites school based sites and over 400 employees. We provide high quality services to patients of all ages. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and a collaborative culture that values excellence achievement innovation and compassion.
We are seeking a dynamic Care Team Nurse to work within the clinical care team providing support in the delivery of patient care as well as direct patient care. The Care Team Nurse utilizes nursing skills and judgement to triage patients and provide patient education along with providing direct patient care such as medical procedures immunizations and medication delivery. Additionally in collaboration with the Associate Director of Nursing the Care Team Nurse provides supervision and guidance to certified medical assistants within the care team. The Care Team Nurse demonstrates critical thinking skills and leadership and models team based care.
This position supports the organizations mission vision and values through excellence and competence collaboration innovation respect commitment to our community and accountability and ownership.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Utilizes the nursing process (assessment planning intervention and evaluation) in patient care and daily activities. Provides comprehensive assessment and utilizes evidencebased guidelines along with insight of the nursing process and a proven ability to critically analyze information from the patient and the patient chart in the decisionmaking process.
- Functions under standardized procedures or patient care protocols to provide independent patient care.
- Administers medications and immunizations within scope of practice and with clinicians order.
- Provides direct patient education explains medical procedures treatments and medications to patients and families and supervises the provision of patient education by certified medical assistants. Communicates based on patients level of understanding and comprehension. Educates patients utilizing principles of active listening.
- In collaboration with the Associate Director of Nursing supervises clinical care provided by certified medical assistants as assigned and trains certified medical assistants for clinical processes as directed.
- Performs independent telephone or face to face triage using written triage protocols.
- Under written orders provides test results to patients and advice on treatment or followup.
- Assures efficient patient flow by ongoing assessment of clinician schedule and working with other staff to minimize patient waiting time.
- Functions as Clinic Supervisor when assigned.
- Participates in staff meetings.
- Maintains confidentiality and monitors confidentiality policy adherence for certified medical assistants and other support staff.
- Consistently adheres to and/or exceed Saluds communication guidelines and expectations with internal and external customers including coworkers patients and external partners.
- Communicates effectively by using welcoming words proper tone of voice appropriate body language eye contact and smiling in all interactions. Listens skillfully and displays a willingness and ability to acknowledge patient and coworkers needs expectations and values through the use of reflective listening and empathy conveyance. Responds to coworker and patient needs in ways that are helpful and beyond expectation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Current California RN license and good standing with the Board of Registered Nurses.
- Completion of an accredited RN program.
- At least one year experience in acute care nursing
- Experience in ambulatory clinical setting and/or Federally Qualified Health Center strongly preferred.
- Minimum of one years experience in acute care nursing strongly preferred.
- New nursing graduates considered with at least one year prior supervisory experience.
- Valid CA Drivers License and current vehicle insurance; must be able to travel between sites.
- Bilingual English/Spanish strongly preferred.
- Current CPR
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Standing walking sitting typing reaching moving and/or lifting up to 50 pounds.
SALARY & BENEFITS
Salary: $105209.32 $127882.56/yr
Benefits: available to all regular Salud employees working 24 hours per week. Parttime employees may receive some benefits on a prorated basis.
- Medical Dental Vision and Life Insurance Plans
- Paid Time Off (PTO): 19 days per year
- Paid Holidays: 12 per year
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer contribution
- Voluntary LongTerm Disability
Additional Information:
- Employees on temporary assignments are eligible for holiday pay and California sick pay both prorated based on hours worked.
- Oncall employees are eligible for California sick pay prorated based on hours worked.
Salud is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information. Salud is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Salud Human Resources Departmentand
Employment Type
Full-Time
