Registered Nurse

Position Summary:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for professional nursing care to clients.  This role works closely with clinicians, administrative staff, and insurance companies to support the financial and operational health of the organization.

Essential Job Functions:

• Pre-certification of insurance clients
• Completes and records initial and subsequent nursing assessment of each patient’s physical and mental status according to program protocols using interview, observation skills, and physical assessment techniques and communicates findings verbally and/or via written documentation
• Writes and submits required reports and/or provides appropriate data as needed
• Initiates emergency screening protocol and decides when to consult on-call staff in accordance with staff on-call procedures         
• Initiates assessment of client needs and provide appropriate treatment/medical care utilizing MD when appropriate
• Orders, interprets, and records results of clinical tests and reports results to physicians.
• Completes nursing assessment for every assigned patient including Mental Status Exam on all new admissions
• Utilize crisis intervention techniques to assist with de-escalation of client situations
• Acts as a collaborative team member within the program, leading and addressing comprehensive health promotion and behavioral health maintenance needs;
• Facilitates preventative and restorative health and well-being education in individual, group and community settings;
• Initiates emergency screening protocol and decides when to consult on-call staff in accordance with on-call procedures
• Work in collaboration with a Physician to assess the physical needs of the client and implement a plan of care
• Participate in training as required and Performance Improvement activities
• Maintain confidentiality of client records in accordance with HIPPA standards
   

Essential Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and experience using behavior modification techniques
• Flexibility to effectively deal with competing demands
• Ability to organize and achieve quality performance level and adapt to new routines, procedures, and skills
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of overall nursing skills
• Proficient in coordinating patient treatment activities to allow for optimal patient care
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with patients, payers, and team members.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a focus on resolving billing issues and ensuring accurate claim submission.
•  Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize workload, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Education:

• Licensed Registered Nurse in the State of West Virginia
• Valid driver’s license and the ability to obtain and maintain WestCare’s vehicle insurance are required.

Experience and Competencies:
 

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in nursing or a related field.
   

Working Conditions:

• Environment: Office setting, with regular use of computers and telephones.
• Hours: Typical work hours are Monday to Friday, with occasional after-hours work as needed.

Essential Physical and Mental Demands of the Job

• The employee must be able to perform the following essential duties and activities with or without accommodation:
   

Physical Demands:

• Requires mobility and physical activity: Having an adequate range of body motion and mobility to work in an office, residential, or outdoor environment including standing and walking (even and uneven surfaces), sitting for extended periods of time, bending, twisting, reaching, balancing, occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds. Use of computer and telephone systems is required which includes coordination of eye and hand, and fine manipulation by the hands (typing, writing, and working with files).
• Requires the ability to defend oneself and clients in physically abusive situations through the use of approved physical de-escalation techniques.
• Requires talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Talking is required to impart oral information to employees, clients, patients, and the public, and in those activities in which the employee is required to convey detailed or

important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Requires hearing: Hearing is required to receive and communicate detailed information through oral communication.
• Requires seeing: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and at distance. This factor is required to complete paperwork for many of the employee’s essential job functions and to observe client behavior and activities in and out of the facility.
• The normal work routine involves no exposure to human blood, body fluids or tissues.

However, exposure or potential exposure may be required as a condition of employment. Appropriate personal protective equipment will be readily available to every employee.

Mental Demands:

• Requires the ability to collect and analyze complex numerical and written data and verbal information to reach logical conclusions.
• Requires the ability to work and cooperate with clients, co-workers, managers, the public and employees at all levels in order to exchange ideas, information, instructions and opinions.
• Requires the ability to work under stress and in emotionally charged settings.
• The ability to defend oneself and clients in mentally/verbally abusive situations through the use of approved mental/verbal de-escalation techniques.

Salary : $65,000 - $75,000