LifeLong Medical Care has an amazing opportunity for a highly motivated Registered Nurse III to join our multidisciplinary team providing exceptional primary care services at our Street Medicine location in Oakland, CA.  The Registered Nurse (RN) -III is a key member of the multidisciplinary Street Medicine team, providing direct nursing care and clinical leadership to people experiencing homelessness living on the streets and in encampments in Northern Alameda County. The RN delivers compassionate, trauma-informed care in nontraditional settings, including wound care, chronic disease management, medication support, health education, and coordination of services. This role serves as the lead for the team, guiding best practices in nursing care, supporting staff in the field, and collaborating closely with providers, social workers, and outreach staff to ensure integrated, client-centered care. The RN also plays a vital role in building trust with highly vulnerable populations, advocating for client needs, and supporting linkages to ongoing primary care and behavioral health services.

We offer ongoing education and collaboration with medical and behavioral health providers to ensure optimal health outcomes for our patient populations. If you are looking for an exciting and fulfilling career in a supportive and innovative work environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

This position is represented by SEIU-UHW. Salaries and benefits are set by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and an employee in this position must remain a member in good standing of SEIU-UHW, as defined in the CBA.

About us:

As a Federally Qualified Health Center in Northern California with over 45 years of dedicated service to the community, LifeLong serves over 66,000 patients in the East Bay Area's socio-economically underserved regions. We provide medical, dental, behavioral health, and school-based services at more than 15 primary care sites across Oakland, Berkeley, and West Contra Costa County. From opening a residential respite program for homeless persons discharged from the hospital to offering free testing to the community, we are innovative and responsive to our times' social and medical needs. We provide an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and with which our patients can identify. To this end, we seek candidates who reflect the diversity of the East Bay communities we serve.

Benefits:

Compensation: $116,000 - $135,,000 year, depending on years licensed. Excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision (including dependent and domestic partner coverage), generous leave benefits including nine paid holidays, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) retirement savings plan, and commuter benefits. 

• Provides nursing care outreach in encampments to high-vulnerability people experiencing homelessness.
• Implements plans of care and provides urgent and primary care services within Registered Nurse scope of work;
• Collaborates in managing common health care problems present in homeless populations including but not limited to the following:
• Diseases of neglect and exposure, such as nutritional problems, dental disease, hypothermia, and/or dehydration
• Substance abuse related illness, such as permanent sequelae of substance abuse including brain dysfunction, liver disease, lung and heart disease
• Cognitive impairments
• Chronic illnesses and conditions often presenting in advanced stages due to absence of prior healthcare, such as diabetes, hypertension, COPD, hypertension, visual impairments, and/or dental problems
• Infectious diseases, such as HIV, TB, STD's, respiratory infections, infestations (scabies, lice, etc.), skin infection, chronic viral hepatitis, MRSA, clostridial infections, and/or rat-borne, louse-borne, or other emerging diseases
• Musculoskeletal problems, such as, foot diseases, post-traumatic arthritis, and/or chronic pain syndromes
• Psychiatric disease, such as underlying severe mental illness, undiagnosed mental illness, mental illnesses resulting from homelessness, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder
• Performs timely client/patient telephone advice and triage assessment with clinical competence and judgment for urgent/drop in care;
• Provides education and counseling on a variety of topics (e.g., pregnancy counseling, contraception, HIV, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, infestations, mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and specific diagnostic procedures) including but not limited to patients receiving “Medications for Addiction Treatment” (MAT)
• Performs initial and continued assessment of client health status, immunization, and TB screening, based on established protocols;
• Administers immunizations), medications and blood draws consistent with current guidelines and established protocols;
• Provides outreach, information and referral, care coordination and case management services as appropriate for Street Medicine and Shelter Health and collaborating partners;
• Implements innovative interventions and models to improve care of high-risk/high-vulnerability individuals experiencing homelessness;
• Uses multiple EMR platforms to gather patient information; documents appropriately in electronic medical record; maintains medical records;
• Provides client care in a manner that is both non-discriminatory and non-judgmental;
• Communicates effectively with the client/patient, clinic staff, the public at large and departmental staff in a non-discriminatory manner; and
• Participates in Street Medicine clinical case conferences and other case conferences and meetings

• Ability to effectively coordinate care with medical assistants and other support staff, encourage and nurture development and growth, to build a strong and productive team.

• Commitment to the provision of primary care services for the underserved with demonstrated ability and sensitivity in working with a variety of people from low-income populations, with diverse educational, lifestyle, ethnic and cultural origins.
• Strong organizational, administrative and problem-solving skills, and ability to be flexible and adaptive to change.
• Ability to effectively present information to others, including other employees, community partners and vendors.
• Ability to seek direction/approval on essential matters, yet work independently with little supervision, using professional judgment and diplomacy.
• Work in a team-oriented environment with a number of professionals with different work styles and support needs.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written skills.
• Conduct oneself in internal and external settings in a way that reflects positively on LifeLong Medical Care as an organization of professional, confident and sensitive staff.

Job Requirements          

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Current and valid California Registered Nurse license and BLS.
• Proficient in Microsoft office suite
• Electronic health records, NextGen preferred.

Job Preferences

• 1 year nursing experience
• Minimum one year experience in community health as an RN.