Nurse-Family Partnership Case Manager

Nurse-Family Partnership Case Manager (RN)

Starting Pay Range $ 33.31 – 39.19, annually

Pueblo Community Health Center offers a flexible benefits program to full-time and part-time employees working 20 hours or more per week.

Benefit opportunities presently available to employees (Part Time 20, Part Time 30 & Full-Time employees only) are listed below:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plan
• Cafeteria 125 Flexible Spending Account

In addition to the benefits available for purchase through the Cafeteria 125 plan, Pueblo Community Health Center offers supplemental insurances and generous paid time off benefits including holidays and personal time off (PTO). The organization also contributes to the employee’s tax-sheltered annuity plan after one year of service.

Job Summary: The NFP RN Case Manager is responsible for providing comprehensive nursing services and case management to first-time, low income families eligible for the Nurse-Family Partnership Program. The nurse home visitors are responsible for maintaining the highest standards in clinical nursing practice and adherence to the NFP model; and to policies, procedures, guidelines and standards of NFP and those of Pueblo Community Health Center.

Reports to: Nurse-Family Partnership Manager

Education/Experience/License/Certification:

• Valid Colorado R.N. license to practice professional nursing required.
• Three to five years of nursing experience required, preferably in community health, home healthcare, perinatal and/or pediatric nursing.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing strongly preferred.
• An appropriate combination of experience and education may be considered.
• Valid driver’s license and auto insurance as required by law.
• Current B.L.S. with skills demonstration C.P.R. certification for Healthcare Providers required

Required Travel: Frequent travel is required including day-to-day local travel

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

The following requirements represent the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for the position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, methods, and techniques of working with pregnant women, infants and children up to age two.
2. Knowledge of current trends and developments in prenatal, postpartum and newborn care.
3. Knowledge of lactation practices, counseling techniques and breast pump usage.
4. Working knowledge of community resources.
5. Conversational Spanish skills desirable.
6. Essential to have ability to make face-to-face contact with clients in their homes.
7. Essential to have ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships.
8. Essential to have ability to understand verbal information, ability to exchange verbal information with others and ability to present information verbally.
9. Essential to have ability to read and understand written materials and ability to compose information/instruction in written form.
10. Essential to be able to reason mathematically and to have analytical and problem solving skills.
11. Essential to be able to work independently.
12. Essential to be able to assess priorities and be flexible when situations change.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Ensure the function and activities of this department to embrace the philosophy, mission, values and Communicate with Heart service model supported by the Board of Directors of Pueblo Community Health Center, Inc.
2. Adhere to the guidelines and procedures of Pueblo Community Health Center, Inc.
3. Attend and complete all required NFP education programs and follow protocols developed for the Nurse/Family Partnership home visitation model.
4. Provide case management, care coordination and home visitation for low income, first time pregnant women and their families until the child reaches age 2 years.
5. Coordinate services with community resources to meet the needs of the families on a caseload of 25 eligible households.
6. Develop therapeutic relationships; utilize concepts of reflection and motivational interviewing with women and their families in a home visiting environment.
7. Follow nursing process in implementing NFP into nursing practice.
8. Assess physical, emotional, social and environmental needs of women and their families as they relate to the NFP domains.
9. Attend required meeting and conferences.
10. Perform related duties as assigned, including those on weekends and after usual work hours.
11. Interact within a service network to ensure access to affordable and appropriate services in a timely manner.
12. Ensure that all points of contact with the client are adequately documented in the medical record, including patient phone calls, visits, and contact with other community agencies.
13. Provide perinatal care appropriate to the age-specific needs of all clients in accordance with the principles of growth and development for infant, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric life cycles.
14. Maintain a productivity level (at full caseload) of 48 to 55 visits or attempted visits per month.
15. Work closely with Perinatal Case Managers to provide an appropriate continuum of nursing care to NFP clients.
16. Maintain confidential data and information.
17. Consult and collaborate with other professionals involved in providing services to women and families.
18. Maintain CPR certification.
19. Adhere to infection control policies and procedures.
20. Seek and respond appropriately to feedback.
21. Accurately assess own learning needs and develop strategies to meet them.
22. Establish and record progress toward annual goals.
23. The employee may be required to provide services to an individual who is not a patient of the health center when the provider is then asked, called upon, or undertakes at or near the location of an emergency to provide service to a non-health center patient in an emergency situation or temporarily treat or assist in treating the non-health center patient.
24. The employee may be required to provide supervision of students and medical residents providing care at the health center’s facilities.
25. Perform other duties assigned.

The above duties are not all inclusive and are not intended to limit or define the duties that may be assigned.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that are typically required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. The employee frequently communicates with employees and the public and must be able to exchange accurate information while performing patient care tasks and routine office tasks.
2. The employee frequently retrieves and disseminates information using written materials and electronic devices.
3. The employee frequently observes, receives and otherwise obtains information from all relevant sources and identifies information by categorizing, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events while assessing, planning and monitoring client’s needs.
4. The employee occasionally utilizes medical equipment necessary to conduct medical assessments in a home health care environment.
5. The employee frequently operates computers and other office productivity equipment
6. The employee occasionally remains in a stationary position while performing patient care tasks and routine office tasks.
7. The employee frequently moves about the office or client’s home which may require climbing stairs; and positions self while performing patient care tasks and routine office duties such as accessing files and operating equipment.
8. The employee frequently moves or positions objects weighing up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds while performing patient care tasks and routine office duties such as opening file drawers, moving patient files, moving a laptop computer, etc.

Closing Date: Open until filled.

Pueblo Community Health Center is a tobacco-free workplace. EOE

Apply online at Pueblo Community Health Center