State Home Care Registered Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

MISSON:

Aging Services of North Central Massachusetts provides comprehensive information and quality services so that older people, individuals with disabilities, and their families are empowered to make personalized choices to ensure a life of dignity, safety, and respect .

The values of ASNCM have been determined by its employees and are the foundation of our culture.

Collaboration – We communicate and coordinate with others, internally and externally, to make a positive difference for our consumers and their families.

Compassion – We work with “heart” to be kind, caring and willing to help our consumers in their journey.

Consumer-Centric - We are committed and persistent in ensuring that our services and experiences are of high quality, resulting in positive consumer impacts.

Empowermen t - We strive to make our consumers stronger and more confident to control their lives with personalized choices and claim their rights to a life of safety, dignity, and respect.

Integrity – We adhere to the highest standards of professionalism, ethics and personal responsibility, worthy of the trust our consumers place in us.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: A State Home Care RN assesses clients for services, determines clinical eligibility for programs, and develops care plans. The primary goal is to support individuals who receive services in the community so they can continue living in their own homes. Duties include data entry into a computer database, communication and consultation with family members, other Aging Services of North Central Massachusetts staff, and community professionals.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participates as an integral member of a home care team along with case managers and other related personnel, assesses and/or authorizes services to be delivered by long-term care agencies to promote coordination and cooperation in forming cost-effective and quality service plans. The ASAP RN will participate in determining clients’ initial and continued eligibility for Home Care and Medicaid-funded services.

• Participates in the Personal Care (PC) Service Program according to Executive Office of Aging & Independence regulations. The SHC RN assesses clients for personal care, develops the PC care plans, and monitors the plan on a regular basis for appropriateness of the care plan and amount of service.

• Conducts the Clinical Assessment and Eligibility screenings for Medicaid recipients or applicants: Acute and Chronic Hospital Nursing Facility Pre-Admission, Community screenings, Adult Day Health screenings, and Initial and Reassessment Waiver screenings

• Participates in interdisciplinary RN/CM team meetings and case conferences.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Fosters an environment that facilitates professional collaboration among inter and interdisciplinary colleagues.

• Builds and maintains collegial environment that supports positive group processes.

• Serves as a change agent within the organization.

• Demonstrates leadership skills in decision-making, problem solving, and teamwork and role models those characteristics.

• Prepares self-development plans, sets professional goals

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

• Minimum one year nursing experience required; community experience preferred.

• Excellent computer, organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills essential

•They should have experience and interest in the elderly population and/or community health. They should possess good communication, organization and time management skills; good nursing assessment skills; good judgement and decision-making skills; and excellent documentation

• Knowledge of basic medical, mental health, social service delivery systems, as well as acceptable record keeping practices is essential.

A valid driver's license and a legally insured and registered motor vehicle are required, a copy of current license and registration will be on file in the personnel record.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of Pre-employment physical, CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information), SORI (Sex Offender Registry Information), TB (tuberculosis) screening.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

PHYSICAL:

• Visual, speaking, auditory, and mobile capacity necessary:

• Capacity to see computer screen, read written material, and drive a car.

• Capacity to hear and speak on the telephone.

• Capacity to communicate verbally with consumers, caregivers, supervisors, and managers.

• Capacity for fine manipulation in the frequent use of office equipment such as computers, copy machines, fax machines, telephones, calculators, etc.

• Capacity to drive in all-weather to visit consumers in their homes

• Capacity to navigate uneven terrain in all-weather to visit consumers in their homes

• Capacity to climb stairs

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.

• Occasional reaching and grabbing objects with both hands, twisting of hand and wrist, and pushing and pulling of objects.

• Occasional bending, squatting, and twisting to perform work functions.

• Occasional capacity to lift up to 25 pounds.

MENTAL:

•Ability to understand and/or interpret complicated program instructions and laws.

•Capacity to learn complicated computer software

•Capacity to deal rationally and calmly with varying personalities

•Capacity to work well in fast paced, rapidly changing environment.

ENVIRONMENTAL:

• Work is split between indoor office work and traveling outdoors to meetings, trainings, and consumers’ homes.

• Must be able to tolerate odors and pollutants including but not limited to smoke, air fresheners, pet dander, personal odors, etc. from a variety of in-home conditions.

• Must be able to tolerate by-products of office machine operation.

• This position is an onsite role.

• Must be able to tolerate heat and cold of seasonal changes and indoor temperatures.