Onsite Addiction Nurse Care Manager – Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program

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About the role

  • Addiction Nurse Care Manager providing skilled nursing services and psychiatric care in addiction treatment for Boston Medical Center. Collaborating with a team to support patients with substance use disorders.

Responsibilities

  • Provides skilled nursing services to patients struggling with substance use disorders.
  • Ongoing assessment, intakes, evaluations, triage, teaching, inductions, stabilizations, and monitoring of patients in Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) model.
  • Provide psychiatric care of patients within the Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program (APTP).
  • Collaborates with team members, clinic settings at BMC and outside referral sites.
  • Works with providers from addiction and community health settings in assisting patients and supporting their referral needs.
  • Review intake assessment with nursing team and provider and establish appropriate plan of care for patient.
  • Revise patient plan of care with the addiction treatment team as needed to address patient needs and issues.
  • Collaboration, communication, and meetings with addiction treatment team as needed and required.
  • Review consents and treatment contracts with patients and significant others.
  • Ongoing management of patients receiving medications for addiction (opioids, alcohol, and stimulant use disorders).
  • Education and assessment of patients looking to access opioid treatment programs.
  • Assessment of signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal using the COW (Clinical Opioid Withdrawal) scale.
  • Follow State and Federal guidelines in providing care to opioid dependent patients.
  • Ongoing psychiatric care of patients referred to the Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program.
  • Provides follow up care in person and via telephone when needed.
  • Must adhere to all of BMC’s RESPECT behavioral standards.

Requirements

  • Graduate of an accredited nursing program
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing preferred
  • Massachusetts licensure as a registered nurse
  • Maintain R.N. staff competencies on an annual basis
  • 3 - 5 years clinical experience required
  • 2+ years of experience with patients with substance use disorders and/or mental health conditions preferred
  • Computer skills required, preferably with Word, Excel and Access
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong patient communication and patient education skills
  • Ability to be highly organized, detail-oriented, and timely
  • Ability to work productively across academic clinical departments.
  • Requires tact and diplomacy to successfully motivate and educate faculty.
  • Advanced knowledge of research regulations and research compliance requirements, including Protection of Human Subjects.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, pharmacy
  • discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 403(b) savings matches
  • paid time off
  • career advancement opportunities
  • resources to support employee and family well-being

Job title

Addiction Nurse Care Manager – Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$71,500 - $104,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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