Who We Are:
Since 1985, BHCHP’s mission has been to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in greater Boston. Over 12,000 homeless individuals are cared for by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program each year. We are committed to ensuring that every one of these individuals has access to comprehensive health care, from preventative dental care to cancer treatment. Our clinicians, case managers, and behavioral health professionals work in more than 60 locations to serve some of our community’s most vulnerable—and most resilient—citizens.
From our earliest days as a program, we have always sought to do work that is transformational: recognizing our shared humanity; centering dignity, compassion, mutual respect and supporting the right of every individual to access the highest levels of health care and every staff member to reach their fullest potential. We continue to be committed to building bridges and breaking down barriers, including systemic racism which harms us all. We provide community-based health care services that are compassionate, dignified, and culturally appropriate, incorporating social determinants of health, with the goal of breaking down the physical and systemic barriers that our patients face.
Bilingual, Bicultural, LGBTQIA identifying, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are encouraged to apply.
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Job Summary:
***NOW OFFERING A $4,000 SIGN ON BONUS***
Hours: Full time, Monday – Friday 8:30am-5:00pm some flexibility in hours
We are looking for a nurse who is public health conscious and aligned with the ideas of harm reduction to support teams on the front line of innovative approaches to the overdose crisis and a pivotal part of improving drug user health. In this role, you will share time with the Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) and Harm Reduction teams at BHCHP and will have a unique opportunity to visit with patients in all stages of recovery and across several clinical settings including in office and on street outreach. The goals of this approach are to addressexisting substance use disorder treatment challenges for BHCHP patients, to decrease overdose deaths and to connect patients more effectively to addiction treatment.
In the OBAT capacity, you will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide skilled nursing services to patients with opioid use disorders (OUD) receiving treatment with buprenorphine and supporting the Methadone QuickStart program as well as START program for patients with StUD. Duties include ongoing assessment, intakes, evaluations, triage, teaching, inductions, and stabilizations to support patients with a desire to receive treatment for a diagnosis of OUD and receive supportive care for other substance use disorders (SUDs). Assist in the primary care of patients within the OBAT program, and facilitate support and services provided at other settings. This position will provide OBAT nurse care manager support as well as other duties within the scope of nursing at a variety of BHCHP shelter-based clinic settings and 780 Albany Street based on need and availability.
While in the Harm Reduction capacity of the role, the RN will provide in-the-moment, low-threshold medical access to patients who may otherwise not present to traditional clinical settings. This could be at low-threshold clinical spaces or in SPOT (Safe Place for Observation and Treatment), where the nurse will ensure that sedated patients are triaged and safely monitored in a supportive and compassionate environment. Services provided will include clinical assessments, RN case management, medical monitoring, intervention in the case of overdose and immediate linkages to addiction treatment and primary care.
In both capacities, the nurse will collaborate with team members at various BHCHP clinic settings, outside referral sites, and with providers from addiction settings throughout Massachusetts. This position will report directly to the Nurse Manager of the OBAT program with a dotted line to the specific site directors.
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Who We Are:
Since 1985, BHCHP’s mission has been to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in greater Boston. Over 12,000…
Bilingual in Spanish and English is preferred.
Bilingual in Spanish and English is preferred.