Licensed Vocational Nurse / Licensed Psych Tech

Licensed Vocational Nurse / Licensed Psych Tech

Agency Description

• San Francisco Community Health Center (formally API Wellness Center) is a multicultural health services, education, research, and policy organization.
• We transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.
• We strengthen the well-being of and lead under-served communities—of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and immigration statuses—toward justice and health.
• Founded in 1987 as an all-volunteer, community-based response to the AIDS crisis in communities of color, we are an anchor-organization for San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, and we also lead regional, statewide, and national programming.
• We believe that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care.

Position Description

The Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) or Licensed Psych Tech (LPT) is responsible for providing field-based nursing care, complex medical care management, and at-home care to HIV positive clients enrolled in either Intensive Case Management (ICM) or Enhanced Care Management (ECM) services at SFCHC. The LVN / LPT is the central medical provider on an integrated, mobile team. The LVN / LPT is responsible for supporting health and psychiatric assessments as well as developing and continually updating collaborative client care plans, specifically around medication adherence, care engagement, referrals, and health education. Direct client work and interaction will be done in the field and at the office.

Essential Functions

· Provides mobile nursing care (under the supervision of the primary care provider and/or medical director) and case management (under the supervision of the clinical supervisor) to HIV positive clients enrolled in the Intensive Case Management or Enhanced Care Management programs · Supports field-based health and psychiatric assessments and monitoring · Offers enhanced medication support; this includes dispensing, directly-observed treatment (DOT) and IM Depo injections · Coordinates directly with pharmacies · Provides complex care management such as hospital transition support, medical referrals, and health education · Provides service referral, linkage, coordination, advocacy services · Develops and renews clients’ individualized nursing treatment plans and multidisciplinary care plans · Provides clinical oversight for the case management care plans created by team case managers · Coordinates with clients’ primary care provider weekly · Completes necessary documentation, UOS reports and treatment plans in a timely manner · Documents appropriately in the electronic medical record (Epic) · Uses multiple electronic data sources to gather patient information and track ED or inpatient utilization across care systems · Participates in weekly case conferences, monthly staff meetings and in-service trainings · Performs other duties and tasks as assigned