Nurse Wellness Educator

This position is for 32 hours/week.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provides education and nutritional assessments for patients with diabetes.
2. Collaborates with patients to develop individualized diabetes care plans.
3. Conducts group visits for diabetes education, nutrition education, or other educational topics related to patient health.
4. Develops and implements protocols for administering Medicare IPPEs and AWVs.
5. Trains providers to administer Medicare IPPEs.
6. Administers AWVs in coordination with primary care teams.
7. Collaborates with work group tasked with maintaining adherence to PCMH policies and procedures.
8. Assists with preparation and submission of documents for annual NCQA re-certification.
9. Attends health center staff clinical team meetings and other staff meetings as required. Participates in development of group practice standards, quality assurance objectives and activities, and presents didactic teaching material to other health center clinical team members, as requested by CMO.
10. Develops culturally appropriate educational materials on diabetes and nutritional issues for use with individual patients and community health education programs.  Evaluates and recommends diabetes and nutrition education used by other health center staff.
11. Documents all patient care, including face-to-face and telephone encounters and consults, appropriately and legibly in the medical record per health center protocols.
12. Seeks appropriate consultation and clinical supervision as needed from colleagues, including transfer of patients exceeding professional skills, abilities, or comfort.
13. Provides complete, accurate billing data for all encounters in a timely manner per health center policy.
14. Maintains all health center required credentials at all times and provides health center with updated copies. Maintains and expands current level of professional knowledge of diabetes care and nutrition theory and practice through continuing education.
15. Other duties as required and assigned.

Location: Attendance is required during regular business hours at assigned CHCFC site(s). Remote work may be arranged by approval of CMO, when appropriate.

Other:  Bilingual/bicultural strongly preferred; commitment to CHCFC’s mission and ability to work with diverse medically underserved population required.

REQUIRED SKILLS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Education: Certified Diabetes Educator/CDE and Registered Nurse (RN) or Registered Dietician required. Bachelor’s degree preferred for RN and masters preferred for RD..

Experience: Two or more years in public health or office nutritional counseling strongly preferred.

Skills: Strong knowledge of dietary counseling regarding chronic disease factors (cardiovascular, hypertension, diabetes) and obesity required.  Strong teamwork and community activism skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this position successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this position, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, bend, reach, twist, squat and kneel.  The employee must be able to speak and hear.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.  The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or operate objects, tools or controls.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  The work requires some travel to and from evening clinics and training sessions as well as the ability to adjust work schedule to accommodate periods of extreme activity.

WORKING CONDITIONS: 

While performing the required duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent when traveling between Health Center locations where medical care is provided.  This position performs tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues.

This job description is subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the employee works. Performs other duties as assigned.