Addiction Nurse Care Manager – Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program
Boston Medical Center (BMC)
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $71,500 - $104,000 per year
About the role
- Provides skilled nursing services to patients struggling with substance use disorders.
- Ongoing assessment, intakes, evaluations, triage, teaching, inductions, stabilizations, and monitoring of patients in Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) model.
- Provide psychiatric care of patients within the Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program (APTP).
- Collaborates with team members, clinic settings at BMC and outside referral sites.
- Works with providers from addiction and community health settings in assisting patients and supporting their referral needs.
- Review intake assessment with nursing team and provider and establish appropriate plan of care for patient.
- Revise patient plan of care with the addiction treatment team as needed to address patient needs and issues.
- Collaboration, communication, and meetings with addiction treatment team as needed and required.
- Review consents and treatment contracts with patients and significant others.
- Ongoing management of patients receiving medications for addiction (opioids, alcohol, and stimulant use disorders).
- Education and assessment of patients looking to access opioid treatment programs.
- Assessment of signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal using the COW (Clinical Opioid Withdrawal) scale.
- Follow State and Federal guidelines in providing care to opioid dependent patients.
- Ongoing psychiatric care of patients referred to the Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program.
- Provides follow up care in person and via telephone when needed.
- Must adhere to all of BMC’s RESPECT behavioral standards.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing preferred
- Massachusetts licensure as a registered nurse
- Maintain R.N. staff competencies on an annual basis
- 3 - 5 years clinical experience required
- 2+ years of experience with patients with substance use disorders and/or mental health conditions preferred
- Computer skills required, preferably with Word, Excel and Access
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong patient communication and patient education skills
- Ability to be highly organized, detail-oriented, and timely
- Ability to work productively across academic clinical departments.
- Requires tact and diplomacy to successfully motivate and educate faculty.
- Advanced knowledge of research regulations and research compliance requirements, including Protection of Human Subjects.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, pharmacy
- discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 403(b) savings matches
- paid time off
- career advancement opportunities
- resources to support employee and family well-being
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
nursing servicespsychiatric caresubstance use disorderspatient assessmentplan of careopioid treatment programsCOW scaleclinical experiencepatient educationresearch compliance
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillspatient communicationorganizational skillsdetail-orientedtimelinesstactdiplomacymotivationeducationcollaboration
Certifications
Massachusetts RN licensureBachelor of Science Degree in Nursing