Reports to: Clinical Assistant Program Director
Monday- Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, Weekends on call rotation
On-Site
Position Summary
Working in accordance with the established Everstand Policies and Procedures, federal and state regulations as well as the applicable State Board(s) of Nursing to provide administrative and clinical healthcare services as well as direct nursing services to youth placed within the program. The Caminos Medical Coordinator is an active member of program leadership responsible for care coordination, oversight and administration of medications; coordination of routine and speciality medical and dental care utilizing a network of community providers; health education for youth and staff; and all administrative tasks.
Why Join Everstand?
Find joy and purpose in your career. Join an inspired team of professionals who are transforming the lives of youth and enriching communities, one family at a time. Everstand is not a federal or state agency. It is an independent, not-for-profit organization that serves over 1,000 children annually across 12 locations. You will join about 500 teammates across DC, MD, PA, and WV who empower youth and their families to flourish within their community.
What does the benefits package look like? At Everstand, we are committed to supporting the health, well-being, and professional growth of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Generous Paid Time Off: Accrue three (3) weeks of vacation annually, plus two floating holidays and 10 paid company holidays each year—providing 30+ days of paid time off.
- Paid Leave: Paid sick leave and bereavement leave.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance with eligibility beginning on your first day of employment.
- FREE Employee Health Insurance: Everstand provides employee-only medical coverage at no cost through Allied Health.
- Retirement Savings: Retirement plan with an employer match of up to 3%.
- Tuition Reimbursement: Eligible after three months of employment, with reimbursement of up to $5,000 annually for approved educational expenses.
- Additional Benefits: Access to a variety of voluntary and employer-sponsored benefit programs designed to support your financial, personal, and professional well-being.
Essential Functions
Administrative Duties
- Model and act in accordance with Everstand’s core values.
- Demonstrate and practice trauma informed leadership.
- Demonstrate and practice Everstand’s leadership mindset, “Choose kindness. Solve problems and learn together. Make it happen.”
- Provide oversight and coordination of medical care for the Caminos shelter program, including the delivery of high-quality services in accordance with regulatory timeframes to ensure that youth are provided with safe and supportive programming.
- Ensures all Caminos Program residents receive quality and timely medical and dental care in accordance with state and federal regulations.
- Responsible for developing, maintaining and overseeing working relationships with community providers to ensure all medical appointments and follow-up recommendations are documented, monitored and reported according to state and federal standards.
- Arrange and communicate with staff for all in house and outpatient medical appointments/services to include hospital emergencies and/or admissions, medical appointments, laboratory services, vaccine clinics, x-rays, and ultrasounds.
- Schedule appointments, accompany youth as necessary on specialty medical appointments, and communicate provider’s questions/concerns to ensure accuracy and patient safety.
- Produce a daily resident appointment list and ensure all staff are aware via email and hard copies in staff mailboxes.
- Audit, track, and schedule required physical, vision, and dental appointments.
- Response for the initial training and renewal process for non-medical staff to be certified by the State in medication administration, including completion of purchase orders.
- Organize and maintain resident medical charts, physical and electronic, utilizing program required agency and federal databases.
- Update and file patient medical records, including retrieval and copies of medical records necessary for staff reports and outpatient services.
- Assures completeness of documentation for the clients and for associated nursing functions such as the MAR, nursing screening exams, PPD screens, vaccinations, vital signs, laboratory logs, peer reviews and other quality initiatives, nursing sick call screens, consultations and referrals, in service training, and other activities of the healthcare suite.
- Ensures completeness of documentation of medical services provided to clients as required in federal and state databases, including the completion and submission of medical serious incident reports.
- Responsible for timely submission of Treatment Authorization Requests, or other forms required for reporting and billing purposes.
- Inventory and maintenance of all administrative and medical supplies and medications.
- Maintains regular and consistent communication with Caminos Medical Services Administrator and the designated ORR Medical Coordinator, including participation in regular Everstand and ORR sponsored training and guidance updates.
- Performs administrative duties as requested by supervisor, including researching and updating protocols/procedures, obtaining educational materials, coordinating care at outlying facilities, tracking billings and expenditures, organizing in service training, assuring regulatory compliance of the health suite.
- Collaborate with other departments for various service needs, including but not limited to:
- Ensuring comprehensive care coordination.
- Ensuring access to mental and behavioral health services.
- Providing information, psychosocial education and local community resources as needed to identified sponsor placements.
- Work in partnership with the ESS Supervisor to schedule medical transportation
- Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and perspectives, including the ability to develop systems and practices that are inclusive of all staff members and responsive to the cultural needs of the client population served.
- Evaluates productivity of the medical department and develops plans to improve efficiency.
- Oversees patient and staff satisfaction through excellent customer service, communication, teamwork, safe practices, attendance, punctuality, and strong leadership.
- Makes sound employment practices by adhering to all Everstand policies, procedures, and standards, local, federal and state regulations and employment laws.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and familiarity with both Everstand and Office of Refugee Resettlement Policy and Procedures relating to the care and supervision of Unaccompanied Children. This includes knowledge of legal background and authority governing the practice as related to working with Unaccompanied Children.
- Demonstrate a willingness and ability to learn and evolve with changes in the organization and in health care.
- Obtain and maintain certification as a “user” in Everstand’s electronic health record software system, Cx360.
Clinical Duties
- Carries out physician orders and provides day-to-day nursing care as needed, including administering medications and vaccinations, simple lab tests, phlebotomy, throat culture, support to pediatrician, client education, interpretation of medical information, accompanying clients to surgical or extensive medical/emergency procedures, nursing intake, first aid, and emergency/sick call triage.
- Responsible for preparation of treatment room(s) for patients.
- Assist the providers and/or nurses during exams with drawing labs, changing dressing, removal of sutures, etc.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients and assist with education.
- Instruct patients about medications and special diets.
- Medication administration implementing the six (6) Rights of Medication Administration.
- Medication administration with basic knowledge of medications and their use, drug reactions, and methods of administration.
- Medication administration consisting of: observing the youth for changes in physical conditions and/or behaviors, reporting these observations as soon as possible, receiving the prescribed medication, storing the medication safely, ensuring medications are taken, recording information promptly and correctly on appropriate forms.
- Report medical emergencies immediately to designated personnel.
- Maintain confidentiality of all pertinent health information to assure youths’ rights are protected in adherence to HIPAA of Privacy and Security.
- Takes vital signs and/or observes patients to collect information and prepares report or notifies Registered Nurse.
- Keep work area(s) free of hazardous conditions to assure that all established safety rules and regulations are followed at all time in adherence with Infection Control Standards.
- Advocate on behalf of the youths’ best interest and collaborate with their treatment team to ensure their health and safety.
- Facilitates training, education and assessment of skills, along with maintaining requirements for medication administration personnel as necessary.
- Complete CDC and OSHA training for hazardous waste, TB management, and blood borne pathogen standards.
- Must be willing to perform tasks that may involve exposure to the patients’ blood and/or body fluids.
Non-Essential Functions
Serve as Nurse on call on a rotating schedule.
Competencies
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Accountability for Others
- Attention to Detail
- Emotional Control
- Flexibility
- Following Directions
- Frequent Interaction with Others
- Handling Stress
- Meeting Standards
- Monitoring Others
- Organized Workplace
- Personal Accountability
- Respect for Policies
- Sensitivity of Others
- Urgency
- Time Management
Supervisory Responsibility
Provides direct supervision to the Caminos Medical Assistant, Program Nurse and Weekend nurses which includes regular individual guidance meetings and performance reviews, in accordance with agency policies and procedures.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
In the nature of being at a residential and school living environment there may be times you experience conditions in which challenging behavior can be exhibited from our youth to include but not limited to, physical agitation, physical violence and/or emotion outburst.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eligible for flex schedule. Not essential for inclement weather.
Travel
This position is responsible for WV Caminos programs and will need to travel as needed for training and program oversight activities. Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-area travel may be expected.
Required Education and Experience
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Associate of Science Degree in Nursing
- Possession of an active compact Registered Nurse license without disciplinary infractions by the applicable State Board of Nursing, or the ability to obtain a compact license or be licensed in dual states (WV and PA) immediately upon hire.
- Certification to provide training, oversight and monitoring for direct care personnel who are AMAP certified, as per applicable State regulatory within the first six (6) months of hire.
- Two (2) years of nursing experience required, preferably in a pediatric or group home setting
- Basic computer skills
Preferred Education and Experience
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Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing
- Experience working with diverse populations, including refugee and/or unaccompanied children and adolescents
- Bilingual English/Spanish
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
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Able to learn and effectively utilize different technology platforms.
- Excellent computer use knowledge with Microsoft Windows 10 and 365 Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Proven effective time management, planning, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to problem solve.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to keep an electronic calendar (Outlook).
- Demonstrates knowledge and clinical expertise in nursing.
- Ability to communicate in a clear, concise manner both orally and written.
- Exhibits excellent customer service, communication, teamwork, safety practices, attendance, punctuality, and strong leadership.
- Ability to understand medical abbreviations, terminology, and military time.
- Basic computer proficiency to include MS Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Basic mathematical skills, including conversions and metric system.
- Knowledge of symptoms and treatment for childhood diseases.
- Knowledge of normal and abnormal human behaviors.
- Knowledge of side effects of medication.
- Must exhibits ability to interact positively with a caring, nurturing and professional attitude.
- Must be flexible and able to multi-task under pressure and deadlines.
- Ability to plan, implement and track effectively.
- Demonstrate a willingness and ability to learn and evolve with changes in the organization and in healthcare.
- Ability to participate effectively on Interdisciplinary Treatment Teams.
- Ability to pass TCI certification both at employee orientation and per the schedule outlined by HR thereafter.
- Ability to pass CPR/First aid certification both at employee orientation and per the schedule outlined by HR thereafter.
- Ability to demonstrate the possession of a valid driver’s license prior to employment and ability to maintain the license and operate a motor vehicle thereafter.
- Ability to pass CPS/UII background check both prior to employment and per the schedule outlined by HR thereafter.
- Ability to pass a Tuberculosis Screening both prior to employment and per the schedule outlined by HR thereafter.
- Ability to pass a work-readiness physical performed by a certified medical professional both prior to employment and per the schedule outlined by HR thereafter.
- Ability to pass a Federal and State Fingerprinting Background Check and applicable Suitability Determinations both prior to employment and per the schedule outlined by HR thereafter.
- Ability to pass a drug screen via urinalysis both prior to employment and randomly thereafter.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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