Serves as a member of the Outpatient Clinic multidisciplinary team in the medical department to assess, plan, develop, coordinate and provide assessment, treatment, and support services to clients with severe and persistent mental illness. Provides direct care services to clients in rooming clients, completing prior authorizations, managing refills, administering injections, drawing blood for laboratory assessment, and directly supporting prescribers with a variety of client care needs.

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• Provide direct support to prescribers by collecting vitals, completing medication reconciliation, assisting with nursing visits, and carrying out provider-directed care.
• Coordinate medication access, refills, prior authorizations, samples, lab work, blood draws, IM injections, orders, lab results, prescriptions, and proper medication disposal according to protocol.
• Respond to client, pharmacy, hospital, provider, family, and agency needs by coordinating care, mediating service-related conflicts, supporting client rights, and providing crisis intervention as needed.
• Document psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, side effects, treatment updates, service authorizations, and client information in compliance with regulatory, billing, and agency standards.
• Communicate and collaborate with primary care, pharmacies, Integrated Health Home, residential services, community-based services, medical professionals, management, and the public to support coordinated care.

Education: Graduate of accredited nursing program. Bachelor’s degree preferred. 

Experience: Prefer 1 year experience in mental health field. 

License(s)/Certification(s): Registered Nurse currently in good standing and licensed by the State of Iowa to practice in the State of Iowa.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Professional, Ethical, Accountable, Interpersonal Skills, Teamwork, Communication-written and verbal, Planning and Organizing Skills, Flexibility, Managing priorities/deadlines, client focused. Microsoft Office- Word, Excel, Outlook and Electronic Health Record. Speak, read, and write fluent English with ability to write legible entries in case notes and complete required written assignments.

Other: Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.

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