A career at Community Health Centers offers a unique opportunity to join a team that makes a real impact in our community every day, by improving individuals' health while enhancing their quality of life.

Top Reasons to Work at Community Health Centers

• No weekends for the majority of our centers, 10 Paid Holidays and early Fridays
• A great benefits package that includes healthcare coverage, paid time off, paid holidays, retirement plan, and more.
• Competitive compensation with advancement opportunities and tuition / training reimbursement.
• Awarded "Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation" for 5 consecutive years.
• Awarded "Top 100 Workplaces for Growing Families" by Orlando Sentinel.
• Modernized and attractive health centers, that patients love.

Job Summary:

Primary Responsibilities:

Supervision

• Provides supervision, training, and evaluation of assigned staff.
• Orients and train new clinical support staff and students.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with the following requirements: team member performance management, clinical competencies, coaching sessions, and completes timely and accurate documentation.
• Develops work schedules on a weekly basis and assures proper coverage.
• Ensures compliance with CHC policies and procedures such as Progressive Discipline and Termination, Time, Attendance, and Punctuality, HIPAA, Incident Reporting, Infection Control, Safety, and all other applicable policies/procedures.
• Interviews applicants for clinical support staff positions; makes hiring recommendations to Regional Nurse Manager. Ensures that all new hire training requirements are met.
• Reviews and investigates patient complaints related to clinical operations and related patient satisfaction issues and provides updates to the nursing department.
• Participates in safety and infection control roundings, documenting findings on a routine basis.
• Works in conjunction with the CHC Vaccine Coordinator to ensure compliance with the Florida vaccine programs, Vaccines for Children (VFC) and Vaccines for Adults (VFA).
• Assists with organization pilots or projects.

Routine Nursing Duties

• Collects patient history, gather information pertinent to visit and document.
• Communicates with the provider regarding patient care.
• Assists patients and the provider in exam areas.
• Administers immunizations and injections.
• Provides clinical treatments/procedures as directed as need to assist clinical support staff.
• Labels and processes specimens.
• Assist the providers with patient intake, discharge, procedures, medication administration, and patient follow up.

Other Duties:

• Orders and records inventory of medical supplies and medications, including vaccines.
• Monitors and ensure that instruments are properly cleaned, sterilized, stored for procedures and medical equipment is in good working order (proper QC & cleaning).
• Monitors logs associated with nursing, laboratory, and x-ray departments.
• Assists with adjusting patient schedules to ensure proper clinical staff coverage.
• Monitors the needs of clinical staff on a regular basis.
• Performs tracking/reporting of various regulatory agencies.
• Monitor weekly reports and care team requests to ensure that patients are appropriately followed-up in the appropriate time frame.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education: Completion of Licensed Practical Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing.

Experience:

• 2 years of experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse required.
• Minimum of 6 (six) months to1 (one) year management experience in medical practice preferred.

Certification/Licensure: 

• Current/valid Florida LPN license required.
• Current/valid BLS certification or must be obtained within the first 30 days of employment.

Computer Skills: 

• E-mail, internet, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Obtains CHC super user-level competence in eCW.

Special Skills: 

• Bilingual preferred
• Must have good interpersonal skills
• Must have flexibility and ability to manage multiple obligations and set priorities.

Other requirements:

• Must work flexible hours as needed.
• Valid Florida Driver's License is required.