Registered Nurse

The mission of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for homeless and at-risk families, children, and individuals throughout Colorado. The Coalition advocates for and provides a continuum of housing and a variety of services to improve the health, well-being, and stability of those it serves.
The Registered Nurse works collaboratively within an Integrated Health Care for the Homeless team.  The RN in this position is responsible for performing both independent and delegated duties in the provision of providing comprehensive health care to all Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) patients. 
This health outreach role focuses on health outreach within an integrated outreach team, as part of Denver Street Outreach Collaborative focusing on Encampment Response, Healthcare within Micro-Communities, Unsanctioned encampments and Sanctioned Encampments

Coalition Benefits

• Choice of HMO or PPO health insurance coverage options: full-time employees contribute only 1% of their earnings for their own HMO health coverage and no more than 4% of their earnings for coverage of eligible dependents. We’re proud to offer same-and opposite-sex domestic partner coverage.
• Choice of dental insurance or discount plan.
• Vision insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts for health care / dependent care / parking expenses.
• Free basic life and AD&D insurance coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program, a problem-solving resource available to you and your household members.
• Dollar-for-dollar retirement plan matching contributions up to 5% of earnings with 3-year vesting.
• Extensive paid time-off, including 9 holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and three weeks of vacation for new full-time employees in their first year.
The effective date for your benefits will be the first of the month following your date of hire. 

Essential Functions

• Provides skilled nursing care according to accepted community standards of quality healthcare.
• Provides patient-centered care within an integrated, trauma-informed, culturally-aware, harm-reduction model.
• Develops rapport, trust, and professional relationships with people experiencing homelessness, focusing on the rough-sleeper population in large encampments.
• Utilizes motivational interviewing techniques to provide optimum client-centered engagement in care, care coordination, and continuity of services while respecting the autonomy of clients.
• Works collaboratively, advocates respectfully, communicates effectively, and develops partnerships with community organizations and key stakeholders, including but not limited to Homeless Service Providers, Peer Specialists, Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, Department of Public Health, Parks and Recreation, Denver Police, and other city entities.
• Ability to perform quick and accurate triage assessments with appropriate recommendations of care as outlined in SSHC nursing protocols via telephone or in-person.
• Empowers patients by providing appropriate health education and information, including but not limited to addressing common chronic and acute health conditions in this population, such as diabetes management, hypertension management, nutrition, wound care, and disease prevention.
• Administers medications in a safe, evidence-base manner following written protocols or direct provider order, including but not limited to immunizations, antibiotics, insulin, normal saline, psychiatric medications, Depo-Provera and testosterone injections.
• Ability to enter patient data and numbers and retrieve that data on a weekly basis for analysis with the Nurse Manager, Director of Nursing, Medical Director, and Revenue Cycle team as appropriate.
• Collaborates with other members of the multi-disciplinary health care team and coordinates care with internal programs, such as Housing First, Assertive Community Treatment, Respite, Medication Assisted Treatment.
• As a member of an OBH licensed Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment team, provides treatment services such as case management, crisis services, initial intake program screenings, individual medication assisted treatment (MAT) counseling, and administering scales to assess withdrawal.
• Provides transitional, chronic, and complex care management.
• Provide nursing services as needed all CCH programs including but not limited to Stout Street Health Center, Health Outreach, , and Hospital-based Respite, Transitional Care Management, West End Health Center, Fort Lyon, Housing First, and SIB.
• Preceptor to new nurses and nursing students.
• Completes required onboarding, orientation, annual competencies, and assigned continuing education
• Participates in team-based or interdis