Since 1972, Places for People has helped individuals in the St. Louis community find and define their places in the world.

Specifically, our mission is to provide caring, effective services to help those with the greatest challenges recover from mental health illness and associated chronic illnesses.

We fundamentally believe that each person we serve deserves a chance to be their best selves and we want to help them get to that point.

Do you believe that all members of society are valuable and should be treated as such?

Would you love to work in an environment where, throughout the organization, your co-workers are tied to the same mission as you are?

What about working for an organization that is committed to growth, both internally and externally?

Well, Places for People just might be the place for you!

SOME perks of working at Places for People:

Flexible work schedule

Paid Vacation Time and Sick Leave

403(b) Retirement Plan contribution

Mileage reimbursement at the federal rate

Supervision available for licensure during work hours and at no cost

Loan forgiveness through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) for specific positions

Are you looking to join a team and ignite hope, empower clients, and deliver effective services to people in the St. Louis area? Are you passionate and committed to serving those with the greatest needs? Then, Places for People is for you. We have a great reputation in our community and continue to be proud to serve those with the greatest needs. We strive for continuous improvement and use evidence-based practices in our care. We are currently looking for a full-time Nurse Care Manager.

General Description

In addition to suffering from mental health issues, a lot of our clients have co-occurring chronic health conditions as well. The Nurse Care Manager will Collaborate with the treatment team members to provide integrated health and nursing services to persons served of the assigned teams.

Job responsibilities:

• Collaborate with agency nurses to ensure that clients receive injectable medications in timely manner.
• Collaborate with team on the monitoring of blood pressure, glucose monitoring, and tests related to monitoring chronic diseases, and education of staff to provide this service to clients.
• Oversee, with the team supervisor, team medication management process, per agency policy.

• Educate team members and clients on medications and side effects, nutrition, management of chronic physical health diagnoses, as needed and per the client’s treatment plan.
• Provide basic first aid and assessment/intervention in medical emergency situations
• Provide consultation to staff and clients to ensure that measureable, relevant, and realistic physical health goals are in treatment plans and routinely revised (at least quarterly) to reflect changes
• Conduct annual physical health assessments with clients, including physical health recommendations
• Collaborate with client and team to create measurable physical health goal for treatment plan
• Communicate health indicator data received from healthcare home monthly, that are outside of goal, to team and clients, and revise treatment to reflect action plan; document any barriers to treatment in a progress note
• Coordinate enrollment of team clients in HCH
• Collaborate and track annual completion of metabolic screenings for team clients; Education of results of metabolic screening is to be provided to each client and recommendations based on results included in the clients treatment plan or treatment plan revision.
• Provide medication reconciliations with a client within 72 hours of discharge from an inpatient admission
• Collaborate with team members and other professionals in the organization
• Collaborate with Physical Health Integration Team for support and to enroll one client a month in the Primary Behavioral Health Care Project
• Participate in team meetings, treatment planning meetings, and medical services meetings
• Advocate with external physical health providers for clients to receive standard of care and to communicate the client’s health goals to their primary care provider
• Maintain and improve professional skills by attendance at in-service and appropriate training seminars
• Completes annual training requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook

• Performs other related tasks/jobs as assigned by the supervisor

Job Qualifications and Requirements

Requirements: Registered Nurse. Six months of psychiatric nursing experience. CPR certification, Personal vehicle, Chauffeur’s License, and valid auto insurance.

Physical Requirements: Ability to stand, bend, kneel, lift (20-30 lbs), navigate steps or use appropriate accommodations, drive and be able to sit for periods for hours at a time.