Nurse Program Manager - Home Visitation

Overview

Illuminate Colorado is a statewide 501(c)(3) organization working to strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child maltreatment. With a research-based approach that emphasizes building protective factors, we address systemic and multi-sector issues by collaborating with families and partners at the community, state, and national level to develop and implement powerful programs, policies, and initiatives that build brighter childhoods in Colorado.

Our organization is working to build a team of passionate experts who value each other's differing lived experiences and backgrounds. All of our work is guided by our core values of empathy, innovation, growth, and integrity. Learn more at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Role:
Under the guidance of the Director of Clinical and Community Engagement, the Home Visitation Nurse Program Manager provides statewide nursing support for the Family Connects Colorado program. This role leads clinical planning, implementation, quality assurance, and ongoing support for local Family Connects sites. The Nurse Program Manager serves as a nursing expert, ensuring clinical model fidelity, supporting nursing teams statewide, and building referral partnerships with health care providers and systems to increase program awareness, referrals, and enrollment.

Family Connects is an evidence-based approach to supporting all newborns and their families. As a universal light touch home visitation model, Family Connects implementation is designed to create mechanisms, building on local community capacity and interests, that will provide all new parents, prenatally or at birth, systematic opportunities to discuss their concerns and be connected to the parent support resources available in their communities.

Family Connects works in partnership with four current demonstration communities and is poised to scale.

Specific

Duties Include:

• Provide excellent nursing guidance for planning, implementation, certification, and ongoing technical assistance
• Support local implementing sites, healthcare partners, and state agencies in understanding and meeting the clinical requirements of the Family Connects model
• Guide sites through readiness and installation phases, ensuring alignment between clinical operations and model fidelity
• Collaborate with Nurse Supervisors and Nursing Staff to address clinical challenges, share best practices, and identify opportunities to strengthen nursing practice across implementation sites
• Participate in local site case conferences providing nursing consultation and quality improvement insight related to clinical implementation
• Develop and coordinate professional development, continuing education, and clinical training opportunities for nurses across all sites
• Lead and facilitate the Clinical Learning Series, including identifying relevant clinical topics (e.g., postpartum and infant assessment, perinatal mental health, lactation support, safe sleep)
• Ensure adherence to clinical fidelity standards through the Family Connects Quality Assurance process
• Collaborate to streamline Health Cloud documentation workflows and improve nursing documentation efficiency
• Conduct annual site visits with Director to assess clinical practice, compliance, and model fidelity

Work with local partners, communities, and health care agencies to promote family connects and build program awareness and enrollment, including:

• Supports strong relationships with hospitals, birth centers, OB/GYN practices, pediatricians, public health agencies, and other healthcare providers to promote Family Connects
• Assist partners in developing clinical workflows, referral pathways, and data-sharing strategies to ensure timely and seamless family referral and engagement
• Support Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes focused on clinical quality, nursing practice improvement, and KPI monitoring
• Contribute to the development of tools, resources, and implementation materials that support nursing teams and partner organizations
• Collaborate with Family Connects demonstration sites, around outreach efforts and event coordination
• Identify unmet clinical or community resource needs and collaborate with partners to develop solutions
• Represent the nursing role at clinical outreach events and partner meetings

As a member of the Home Visitation Team, support achievement of overarching home visitation strategic priorities and key performance indicators by:

• Partner with local implementing entities, potential community partners, state agency partners, health care organizations, and model purveyors to facilitate the planning, implementation, certification, and technical assistance processes
• Collaborate with Family Connects International (FCI) cross-functional team members to support program sites
• Co-facilitate meetings and stakeholder engagement processes on both state and local levels, including creation of agendas and…