NURSE (LVN) Schedule is Monday to Friday 7:30am - 3:30 pm with subject to change as things adjust.
JOB SUMMARY:
The Medical Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring the health and well-being of unaccompanied children in ORR custody. This position involves coordinating medical services, monitoring health care delivery, and ensuring compliance with federal and state health regulations. More specifically, arrange and coordinate appropriate health services, including urgent, emergent, and preventative health services, for children in care. This includes maintaining complete, confidential medical records for children, ensuring appropriate communication of health needs to case managers and clinicians, scheduling health care appointments, coordinating transportation to health care appointments, ensuring qualified interpretation and translation services are in place, and serving as a liaison for community health care providers.
JOB DUTIES:
- Oversee and coordinate medical care for unaccompanied children.
- Ensure timely medical screenings, immunizations, and treatment plans.
- Liaise with care providers, clinicians, and external health professionals.
- Monitor compliance with ORR health policies and procedures.
- Provide guidance on infectious disease control and health emergencies.
- Review medical documentation and ensure accurate record-keeping.
- Support the development and implementation of health-related protocols.
- Participate in case reviews and provide medical input for placement decisions
- .Performs and coordinates clinical care as follows: maintains medical supplies and prescribed medications, follows standing orders, State licensing, and RSA policies and procedures for providing over the counter medications to minors, assist in preparing youth for examinations, and any other medical tasks as needed.
- Responsible for following medication management policy and procedures at the facility and reviewing and monitoring medication management.
- Learns and utilizes ARC trauma informed care model interventions appropriate to role and scope of practice (for example: Attunement, Engagement, and Resiliency Building, etc.).
- Ensures all infection control, OSHA, CDC, and State licensing guidelines are followed and maintained in all departments.
- Creates strategies and action plans for the prevention of infectious disease outbreaks. Investigates possible outbreaks and coordinates proper resources in response into any confirmed outbreak.
- Maintains and implements any recommendations given by the Public Health Departments, CDC, and other federal and county departments.
- Facilitates and/or coordinates meetings, training, and presentations related to medical needs of children to staff.
- Provides health management, effective communication, and leadership in the execution and direction of quality services to youth, and when applicable staff.
- Communicate, coordinate and schedules all psychiatric and psychological appointments for youth when referred by clinical team.
- Communication with therapists, direct care staff, parents, school administration and physicians relating to health and medication issues.
- Develop and expand medical, specialty and dental services with local providers.
- Immediately respond and attend to individual emergency medical needs.
- Maintain professionalism, confidentiality (including HIPAA), and ethical standards enforced by RSA.
- Provide program support by submitting TARS and auditing portal/charts ongoing.
- Attend training as mandated.
- Additional allied responsibilities as assigned.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) from an accredited Nursing Program or have passed the RN exam and obtained licensure from the State Board of Nursing. Alternatively, may also have a Bachelor of Science in a related health field.
- Minimum of 1 year of employment in public health or a healthcare setting with demonstrated experience in care coordination, health administration, or direct clinical care.
- At least 2 years’ experience scheduling and coordinating appointments.
- Act as a Medical Chaperone to medical, dental, or other health appointments for unaccompanied children.
- Excellent organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in English; bi-lingual in Spanish preferred.
- Ability to have a flexible schedule to accommodate occasional after-hours services, including evenings and weekends, sometimes with limited notice.
- Experience working in shelters with unaccompanied children is preferred.
- Experience working with and maintaining electronic client databases.
- Must have a valid California driver’s license and good driving record.
- Possess or be able to obtain CPR and First Aid certificates.
- Have and maintain Professional Assault Crisis Training (ProACT) and/or Crisis Prevention Intervention
- Ability to successfully pass a criminal background check.
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
In the course of performing this job, the incumbent must be able lift to 40 pounds. Will also require bending, stooping, filing, frequent sitting, twisting, typing, talking, hearing and repetitive motions. Occasional traveling, driving, walking, standing, grasping, pulling, pushing, and reaching. The work environment characteristics, and physical requirements described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing work in this position. Upon request, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and physical requirements, unless doing so would create undue hardship for the company.
This may not be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements efforts or working conditions associated with the position. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, management reserves the right to revise the job description to require that other different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, business needs, facility, or technical advances).
MENTAL DEMANDS:
The incumbent in this position must be able to accommodate to any or all of the following: distractions, interruptions, uncontrollable changes in priorities and work schedules, and providing leadership and decision-making in stressful or emotionally-charged situations.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $28.00 - $30.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
Physical Setting:
License/Certification:
- LVN (Required)
- BLS Certification (Preferred)
- LPN (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
