General Description

In addition to suffering from mental health issues, many of our clients have co-occurring chronic health conditions, as well. The Registered Nurse Care Manager will collaborate with treatment team members to provide integrated health and nursing services to persons served of their assigned teams. 

The individual filling this position must display HOPE for the future while only settling for EXCELLENCE in execution through positive COLLABORATION with others and displaying COMPASSION for our mission. You must be ready to make an incredibly rewarding and strong impact on our community.

About the Agency

Since 1972, Places for People has helped individuals in the St. Louis community find and define their places in the world.

Specifically, our mission is to provide caring, effective services to help those with the greatest challenges recover from mental health illness and associated chronic illnesses.

We fundamentally believe that each person we serve deserves a chance to be their best selves and we want to help them get to that point.

SOME perks of working at Places for People:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance 

Short and long-term disability insurance

Paid Vacation Time (6.67 hrs/month) and Sick Leave (10 hrs/month)

Free Employee Assistance Program 

8 paid holidays

Flexible work schedule

403(b) Retirement Plan contribution

Mileage reimbursement at the federal rate

Supervision available for licensure during work hours and at no cost

Loan forgiveness through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) for specific positions

AT&T Wireless membership perks

Free on-site fitness center (located at our Soulard campus – available for all staff!)

Job duties include but are not limited to:

• Collaborates with agency nurses to ensure that clients receive injectable medications in timely manner
• Collaborates with team on the monitoring of blood pressure, glucose monitoring, tests related to monitoring chronic diseases, and education of staff to provide this service to clients
• Oversees, with the team supervisor, team medication management process, per agency policy

• Educates team members and clients on medications and side effects, nutrition, and management of chronic physical health diagnoses as needed and per the client’s treatment plan
• Provides basic first aid and assessment/intervention in medical emergency situations
• Provides consultation to staff and clients to ensure that measurable, relevant, and realistic physical health goals are in treatment plans and are routinely revised (at least quarterly) to reflect changes
• Conducts annual physical health assessments with clients, including physical health recommendations
• Collaborates with clients and team to create measurable physical health goal for treatment plans
• Communicates health indicator data received from health care home (HCH) that are outside of goal(s) to team and clients monthly, and revises treatment to reflect action plan; documents any barriers to treatment in a progress note
• Coordinates enrollment of team clients in HCH
• Collaborates and tracks annual completion of metabolic screenings for team clients
• Educates each client regarding the results of metabolic screening and provides recommendations based on results included in the client’s treatment plan or treatment plan revision
• Provides medication reconciliations with a client within 72 hours of discharge from an inpatient admission
• Collaborates with team members and other professionals in the organization
• Collaborates with Physical Health Integration Team (PHIT) for support and to enroll one client a month in the Primary Behavioral Health Care Project
• Participates in team meetings, treatment planning meetings, and medical services meetings
• Advocates with external physical health providers for clients to receive standard of care and to communicate the client’s health goals to their primary care provider

• Completes annual training requirements as outlined by agency requirements and supervisor
• Performs other related tasks as assigned by the supervisor