Integration Specialist - LPN

Title: Integration Specialist – LPN

Location: St. Paul, MN

FLSA: Exempt

Purpose:

The Integration Specialist provides the administrative nursing component that is integral to our holistic Behavioral Health Home (BHH) program. This is a unique role with our BHH Team where you will be utilizing your community-based nursing skills to assess, educate and wellness plan with program participants. The goal of this team is to engage individuals, promote wellness, and improve management of health conditions including mental illness, substance use disorders and chronic physical health conditions along with addressing the social determinants of health. This role is supervised by the Program Supervisor and works alongside a dynamic team of professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with clients and staff on the BHH Team.
• Utilize health knowledge to support individuals and their Health Action Plan.
• Assessment of individuals health and goal planning.
• Partnering with the Program Supervisor to provide wellness-based education and training to community-based workers.
• The ability to navigate and input electronic health records in a timely manner. Review and approval of documentation.
• Facilitate individual and group interventions in areas of health and medication management.
• Understanding of and respect for boundaries, values, and personal differences.
• Promote an inclusive, diverse, culturally competent, and respectful work environment.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Navigating mental health crises with a person-centered approach.
• SMI and the functional impairments associated with co-occurring disorders.
• Referral process for psychiatry, primary care, or specialty clinics.
• Community based health resources
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to self-motivate, manage competing priorites, and adhere to deadlines.
• Ability to adapt to changing conditions and be open to new processes.
• Exhibit a sense of personal and professional empowerment, to influence and create positive change motivate, manage competing priorities, and adhere to deadlines.

Education and Experiences:

• Licensed by the state of Minnesota as a Licensed Practical Nurse.

Preferred:

• Experience in public health or other community-based nursing.
• Have one year of previous experience working within a mental health setting.

Additional Requirements

• Must be ambulatory and able to negotiate stairways.
• A valid Driver’s License, reliable vehicle, satisfactory driving record, and auto insurance are required.
• Must not be actively receiving services from Guild and cannot have received services within the last two years.

Working Conditions:

• This position is based at Guild St. Paul area; however, most of the work is in the field as services are provided to individuals wherever needed. This position has the potential to come into contact with bodily fluids, communicable diseases, tobacco smoke, and/or household pets.

Guild’s Employer Promise

We know you do your best work when you feel supported and have the flexibility to meet all of life’s demands, no matter what those demands might be. Guild is an environment where your emotional, physical, and social wellbeing matters. A place where we’re motivated to care for each other and to work together to make a difference in the lives of our clients. We show up for our clients and we show up for each other. And Guild shows up for you.

About Guild

Guild is a Minnesota not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that empowers those living with mental illness and/or experiencing long-term homelessness by helping them find the tools they need to lead stable, fulfilling lives in communities of their choosing.

Benefit Highlights

Guild Services offers a range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; flexible spending, HSA, short and long-term disability; Paid Time Off; paid holidays; wellness hours; 403(b); life insurance; and more. Eligibility requirements and other terms and conditions apply.

The salary range for this position is between $60,000 to $65,000 annually. The range reflects the minimum and maximum salary for the position. Compensation will depend on the candidate’s professional experience, skills, and relevant education, training, and certifications.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)