Somerville-Cambridge Nurse Manager

Hybrid after 30 days! 2 days remote, 3 onsite 
Schedule: 40HPW; Monday through Friday 8am-5pm (1hr unpaid lunch)

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, coaching, performance management, and professional development to nursing and Home Care staff to ensure high-quality service delivery and regulatory compliance.
• Deliver clinical consultation, risk assessment, safety planning, and care transition support for medically, behaviorally, and socially complex consumers, including hospital and skilled nursing facility discharges.
• Oversee enrollment, eligibility, utilization, and program spending for CSSM/CTLP, waiver, and enhanced Home Care programs; ensure timely follow-up and appropriate level-of-care transitions.
• Provide training and clinical guidance on topics including fall prevention, home safety, dementia care, medication management, habilitation therapy, and complex care coordination.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, community providers, and referral sources to strengthen collaboration, referral quality, and program awareness.

Qualifications:

• Graduation from a School of Nursing accredited by the National League for Nursing required; B.S.N. required. M.S.N preferred. Valid license as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is required.

• At least three years of full-time or equivalent experience as a registered nurse in a community setting is required.

• At least one year of supervisory, administrative, or managerial experience is required. Additional experience beyond one year is strongly preferred. Clinical supervision experience is a plus.

• Previous experience with the older adult population, mental health, care coordination, and/or community health settings required. Aging Services Access Point (ASAP) experience is strongly preferred. Knowledge of the State Home Care system, MassHealth LTSS programs, and/or community resources is strongly preferred.

• Must be knowledgeable and comfortable using Adobe and MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and other Microsoft 365 platforms. Experience with Wellsky is strongly preferred.

• Experience with compliance monitoring and tracking is strongly preferred. This may include but is not limited to quality assurance, reporting, audits, and training. Ability to interpret regulatory and business processes and develop and implement policies and procedures required.

• Must receive certification in Habilitation Therapy within the first 6 months of hire.
• Valid driver’s license required. Must be able to travel to consumers’ homes, area hospitals, and nursing homes via public transportation or by car.

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