Registered Nurse (MAT Program)

**Spoke Registered Nurse for MAT Program** **Full-time Weekdays** **ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION** SaVida Health, a private equity backed healthcare company, provides outpatient opiate and alcohol addiction treatment services. SaVida Health's care model includes medical care, counseling, comprehensive toxicology testing, case management and medical management of psychiatric medications. SaVida is headquartered in Nashville, TN and currently operates in Massachusetts, Delaware, Vermont, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Maine and Virginia and is developing the capability to expand rapidly to meet the needs of patients suffering from opiate and alcohol addiction. **Primary Responsibility:** A qualified Registered Nurse will offer the services of comprehensive care management, care coordination, health promotion, comprehensive transitional care, individual and family support and referral to community for patients with Substance Use Disorder. Medicines prescribed are primarily Buprenorphine and Vivitrol. **Essential Duties:** 1. Comprehensive Care Management: Activities undertaken to identify patients for Medication Assisted Therapy, conduct initial assessments working with the site team, and help formulate individual plans of care. Care Management also includes the activities related to managing and improving the care of the patient population across health, substance abuse and mental health treatment and social service providers. 2. Care Coordination: The implementation of individual plans of care (with active patient involvement) through appropriate linkages, referrals, coordination and follow-up, as needed, to services and supports across treatment and human services settings and providers. The goal is to assure that all services are coordinated across provider settings, which may include medical, social, mental health, substance, corrections, educational, and vocational services. 3. Health Promotion: Activities that promote patient activation and empowerment for shared decision-making in treatment, support healthy behaviors, and support self-management of health, mental health, and substance abuse conditions. There is a strong emphasis on person-centered empowerment to promote self-management of chronic conditions. 4. Comprehensive Transitional Care: Care coordination services focused on streamlining the movement of patients from one treatment setting to another, between levels of care, and among health and specialty mental health/substance abuse service providers. The goal is to reduce hospital readmissions, facilitate the timely development of community placements, and coordinate sharing of necessary treatment information among providers. The key orientation is a shift from reactive responses to transitions to planned, seamless transitions of care. 5. Individual and Family Support: Assist patients in fully participating in treatment, reduce barriers to accessing care, support age and gender appropriate adult role functioning, and promote recovery. Help create and support the patient’s support system. 6. Referral to Community and Social Support Services: Assist patients in obtaining and maintaining eligibility for formal supports and entitlements (e.g., health care, income support, housing, legal services) and facilitate the connection of patients to informal community resources. 7. Participate in weekly staff meetings. 8. Participate in group supervision meetings as scheduled. 9. Participate in clinical and administrative supervision meetings as scheduled by Clinical Director. 10. Participate in scheduled Performance & Quality Improvement Meetings (PQI) as directed by Clinical Director. 11. Ensure all policies and procedures as they pertain to patient's engagement in treatment are upheld. 12. Develop effective working relations and cooperate with the provider team throughout the entire case management process. 13. Serve as an ambassador in support of integration between behavioral and medical team throughout entire case management proce…