Outreach Registered Nurse (RN) Supervisor

About the role

Recognized nationally as an innovator and leader in developing solutions to homelessness, DESC is a social services organization, supportive housing operator, and licensed behavioral health treatment provider focused on meeting the needs of people experiencing long-term homelessness and living with complex behavioral health and other medical conditions. Approximately 3,000 people are actively receiving services from DESC at any given point in time. Our vision is a community where all people are shown compassion, treated with dignity, and everyone has a safe, stable, and affordable place to call home. DESC operates five shelter/emergency housing programs, 19 permanent supportive housing facilities with over 1,750 units, several hundred additional scattered site apartments, and a range of behavioral health services including outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment, residential crisis stabilization, street outreach, mobile crisis response, and treatment for opioid use disorder.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the PACT, COAT and HOST medication management systems. This includes reviewing medication orders, coordinating with pharmacies, communicating with housing programs and relevant program staff to ensure timely and accurate medication delivery.
• Administer long-acting antipsychotic medications and clearly document medication administration.
• Provide medication education to both clients and staff and assist clients and staff with identifying strategies to adhere to medication plans.
• Monitor clients' adherence to medication treatment plans, efficacy of psychiatric medications, side-effects/adverse events and communicate any changes with program psychiatrist(s) and other staff as needed.
• Coordinate continuity of care regarding medications between DESC and other hospitals and jails.
• Provide patient education regarding acute and chronic illnesses, treatments, and medications.
• Provide education to team members regarding health conditions.
• In coordination with PACT nurses, complete the PACT revised comprehensive health assessment on all assigned patients every 6 months. This includes assessing past medical history from client report, internal and external agency records, screening and monitoring physical health and dental health, assessment of health risk factors including the use of drugs or alcohol; assessment of activities of daily living skills (ADL's) e.g. bathing, grooming, dressing, toilet hygiene, functional mobility, self-feeding and instrumental activities of daily living (e.g. cleaning and maintaining the home, managing money, navigating the community, preparing meals, shopping, taking medications as prescribed, using the telephone).