Director Diabetes Program Jobs in Colorado (NOW HIRING)

The Registered Nurse works collaboratively within an Integrated Health Care for the Homeless team. The RN in this position is responsible for performing both independent and delegated duties in the provision of providing comprehensive health care to all Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) patients.

Employee must be able to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of self or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The primary job functions listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to perform this job and do not represent an exhaustive list of job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

• Provides skilled nursing care according to accepted community standards of quality healthcare.
• Provides patient-centered care within an integrated, trauma-informed, harm-reduction model
• Ability to perform quick and accurate triage assessments with appropriate recommendations of care as outlined in SSHC nursing protocols via telephone or in-person
• Empowers patients by providing appropriate health education and information, including but not limited to addressing common chronic and acute health conditions in this population, such as diabetes management, hypertension management, nutrition, wound care, and disease prevention
• Administers medications in a safe, evidence-base manner following written protocols or direct provider order, including but not limited to immunizations, antibiotics, insulin, normal saline, Depo-Provera and testosterone
• injections.
• Ability to enter patient data and numbers and retrieve that data on a weekly basis for analysis with the Nurse Manager, Director of Nursing, Medical Director, and Revenue Cycle team as appropriate.
• Collaborates with other members of the multi-disciplinary health care teams including but not limited to medical assistants, primary care medical providers, behavioral health providers, psychiatric providers, peer specialists, dental assistants and hygienists, pharmacists, patient navigators, case managers, client access representatives, inventory and lab coordinators, and nurse educator.
•  Coordinate care with internal programs including but not limited to Health Outreach Program, Housing First, Assertive Community Treatment, Respite, and Medication Assisted Treatment Program.
• As a member of an OBH licensed Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment team, provides treatment services such as case management, crisis services, initial intake program screenings, individual medication assisted
• treatment (MAT) counseling and administering scales to assess withdrawal.
• Provides transitional, chronic, and complex care management
•  Provide nursing services as needed for CCH programs external to SSHC, including but not limited to, Health Outreach, Samaritan House, Beacon, and Hospital-based Respite and TCM, West End Health Center, Fort Lyon, Housing First, and SIB.

• AD, BSN, or MSN in nursing from an accredited college or university.
• Current licensure from the State of Colorado to practice as a Registered Nurse.
• Certification in Basic Life Support.
• Successful completion of the privileging and credentialing process for RNs at the Coalition.
• Preferred experience in ambulatory, public or community nursing.
• Preferred experience in mental health, emergency department, or critical care.
• Bilingual, English-Spanish preferred

• Sound critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Consistently superb customer service skills; excellent interpersonal/assertive communications skills demonstrating a high degree of emotional intelligence.
• Knowledge of homeless issues and demonstrated sensitivity to and a desire to work with underserved populations.
• Can perform treatments and laboratory procedures independently and/or as requested by the health care provider.
• Adheres to Universal Precautions per CDC guidelines and OSHA regulations.
• Adheres to HIPAA regulations per standards developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Provides appropriate patient education that is tailored to both the individual’s learning style, education and or reading level, and is sensitive to their health beliefs.
• Possesses good communication skills.
• Possesses good crisis intervention skills.
• Possesses the initiative to learn and practice triage protocols.
• Can triage patient, either in person or via telephone according to current triage protocols at SSHC.
• Ability to assess and provide urgent/emergent care for patients when necessary.