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Indiana Health Centers, Inc.is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing high-quality, affordable, and patient-centered medical and dental care to the underserved and uninsured populations of Indiana. For more information about us, please visit our website: www.indianahealthonline.org.
IHC South Bend seeks an Early Childhood Development Nurseto join our team! If you are passionate about patient-focused medicine, serving your local community, and working in a team environment, we encourage you to apply!
The Early Childhood Development (ECD) Nurse contributes to IHC’s mission by working across IHC sites to improve pediatric care coordination through the standardization of screenings, implementing the use of motivational interviewing, ensuring implementing SDOH screenings, and educating staff to ensure children and families are connected with local partners including local WIC, Head Start, and Help Me Grow programs. The ECD Nurse works with the pediatric providers, and other team members to achieve goals set by the ECD grant award. Experience with pediatrics, vaccines, quality, and education are desirable.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring all Children ages 0-5 are properly screened and referred as needed
- Educating parents on the importance of screenings, follow-up, vaccinations, literacy, dental health, etc...
- Functioning as support team member for providers and staff by reinforcing patient education
- Maintaining positive professional relationships with parents, children, and staff
- Participating in the preparation and maintenance of accurate patient medical records
- Following HIPAA and OSHA standards
- Performing other work assignments related to licensure requirements
- ECD Nurse must use diverse but conventional methods, techniques, or approaches
- Effectively communicating with diverse individuals
- Maintaining accurate electronic medical records
- Juggling multiple requests and meet multiple deadlines
- Taking initiative and with minimal supervision
The recruitment package includes but is not limited to:
Hourly position
$2000.00 retention bonus: $1000.00 paid after 90 days and $1000.00 paid after 1 year
403(b)/403(b) matching
Flexible spending account
Health, life, dental, and vision insurance
Health savings account
Generous PTO
Referral program
Retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Requirements:Graduation from an accredited school of nursing; registered as a nurse or licensed practical nurse in the state of Indiana. Some travel to other regional sites will be required.
