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$3000 Sign On Bonus!

We’re looking for empathetic individuals dedicated to providing quality support and care to others. With your creative problem-solving skills and Eliot's cutting edge Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) programs, we can overcome traditional barriers in the behavioral health system. Imagine having access to trauma-informed behavioral health services in real time? Or providing coordinated care continuum? Join Eliot and get to work alongside our talented and dedicated staff specializing in housing navigation, recovery coaching, case management,peer supports and other specialized stabilization services.

The CBHC Medical Specialist works with other CBHC medical staff to provide side by side interventions to clients and families with a focus on medical care. You provide medical screenings and medical care consultation as directed, while assisting with ensuring medical supports are in place to allow for continuum of care.

Responsibilities:

• Provide education and consultation to individuals and staff regarding medical health, medication and medical topics.
• Provide side by side interventions to clients and families focused on medical/psychiatric supports in the community, in the office, virtually and in residences.
• Obtain phlebotomy training and certification in order to meet/perform phlebotomy and lab requirements within Eliot/CBHC policies and procedures.
• Develop and conduct groups and interventions for individuals and families in general areas of health and wellness including nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation.
• Provide medical screening of all assigned individuals. Obtain individual weight, height, BMI and other aspects related to metabolic syndrome to establish a baseline. Identify individual preference for making changes as applicable in regarding medical conditions, nutrition, smoking cessation, exercise or other areas related to overall health, utilizing motivational interviewing techniques.
• Provide side by side interventions to individuals that focus on problem solving, skills training, modeling behavior, optimism and encouragement.
• Perform direct medical care for individuals as appropriate and ordered by nurse manager/physician which may include monitoring of vitals, wound care, etc. This includes providing interventions specific to individual treatment plan for medical/health and wellness goal areas.
• Review all medical documentation for each individual as assigned and provide medical care consultation and coordination as needed.
• Provide assistance coordinating overall medical care for individuals and ensuring medical follow up is done as needed.
• Develop working relationships with community medical providers and VNA related services in order to assist with coordinating medical care for individuals on team. Assist with acting as a liaison to communicate medical issues and concerns to medical providers and ensuring the treatment team has an understanding of concerns.

Qualifications:

• Must be a licensed practical nurse, certified medical assistant, EMT-Advanced, EMT-Paramedic, and have at least two years of experience working with people with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
• Must have skills to establish supportive relationships with persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses and respect for their preferences for treatment.
• Must have the ability to work on a team that provides flexible community based services.

Salary: $45,000 per year

Various schedules available.

Bilingual candidates preferred and eligible to receive a 6% differential if fluent.

Bonus Breakdown:

• $1500 after 1 month of employment
• $1500 after 6 months of employment

Bonus Started January 1, 2023

Why Eliot?

At Eliot we are dedicated to restoring dignity and hope to the lives of the people we serve by ensuring access to evidence-based treatments, trauma-informed services and relevant resources. The fiber of our culture includes transparency, creativity, clinical sophistication, responsiveness, and compassion

• Eliot mandates COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, please discuss the requirements with the hiring manager during the interview process.

Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.

• This bonus is effective from 1/1/2023

Education

• Bachelors or better in Nursing

Licenses & Certifications

• Cert Medical Assistant
• LPN

Skills

• Med Administration
• Medical Advice
• Ability to deal with fast pace setting
• Administrative Tasks