Group Adult Foster Care Registered Nurse - Per Diem

• Older Adults Division - Group Adult Foster Care
• Brighton, MA, USA
• 40
• Hourly
• Other
• We regret we are unable to take phone calls about this position. JF&CS is an equal opportunity employer.

Our Group Adult Foster Care (GAFC) Program is currently seeking a responsible, detail-oriented Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team in order to provide vacation coverage for the GAFC Program Director approximately 4 weeks/year.

Essential Job Functions:

As the Per Diem GAFC Registered Nurse, you will provide nursing oversight services that are individualized to meet the needs of each member in accordance with the member's GAFC plan of care. You will be responsible for a diverse range of duties including:

1. Completing or coordinating all applicable clinical assessments and clinical care
2. Developing and reviewing on an ongoing basis each member's GAFC plan of care
3. Selecting, training, evaluating and supervising GAFC direct care aides in conjunction with the care manager
4. Reviewing the PCP summary form
5. Monitoring the health status and treatment plan of all members to ensure that all needed GAFC services are properly delivered
6. Reporting changes in the health status of any member to the member's PCP
7. Reviewing GAFC direct care aide logs at a minimum of every 30 days
8. Conducting on-site visits with each member at the qualified setting
9. Conducting a nursing progress note corresponding with each on-site visit or encounter, or more often as the member's condition warrants
10. Submitting semi-annual health status reports to the member's PCP
11. Planning for and implementing discharges and transition from the GAFC program
12. Conducting an orientation for each GAFC direct care aide before the GAFC DCA begins personal care, and
13. Providing ongoing training to GAFC direct care aides on health and aging.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Massachusetts RN licensure
• A minimum of three years of relevant work experience with older adults
• Fluent in Russian language
• Ability to pass all background checks (CORI, SORI, OIG)

About JF&CS

For more than 150 years, Jewish Family & Children's Service has been helping individuals and families of build a strong foundation for resilience and well-being. We intentionally serve and employ people of all faiths, backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. Through an integrated portfolio of more than 40 programs reaching communities throughout Eastern and Central Massachusetts, JF&CS focuses on meeting the needs of new parents and their children, older adults and family caregivers, children and adults with disabilities, and people experiencing poverty, hunger, or domestic abuse.

JF&CS is an equal opportunity employer who serves and employs people of all cultures and faith traditions and highly values diversity, equity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all without regard for race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability.