LPN Care Coordinator

LPN Care Coordinator – North Country Community Mental Health

• Location:
  
  Can be located in 4 of our 6 Northern Michigan Counties
• Reports to:
  
  BHH Nurse Care Manager
• Employment Type:
  
  Full-Time, Non-Union, Non-Exempt
• Hybrid:
  Community-Based position
• Starting Wage Range: $22.87 – $24.02 per hour

• Base pay: $23.00/hr – $24.00/hr
• Starting wage range: $22.87 – $24.02/hr

• No‑cost health, dental, and vision insurance option
• 14.2% employer‑paid retirement plan contribution
• Vacation, sick and personal time
• Employer‑paid disability and life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement programs

• Education: Completion of an LPN/LVN program and current licensure in the State of Michigan.
• Experience: Minimum of 2 years acute‑care nursing, plus 1 year working with mental health and/or developmental disability clients in a managed care setting preferred. Home care, private duty, or community nursing experience valued.
• Other: Ability to maintain competency, professional communication, independent and team work, lived experience with mental illness or developmental disabilities advantageous.

Summary: The BHH LPN Care Coordinator serves in an expanded health‑care role, collaborating with primary care providers, specialists, interdisciplinary team members, community resources, and clients/families to ensure quality services through intensive care coordination for clients with complex behavioral and physical health needs.

Primary Duties: Support the BHH “HATCH” team Nurse Care Manager in creating/updating care plans and provide higher‑level nursing oversight to Community Health Workers.

• Demonstrate universal precautions, confidentiality, and emergency protocol.
• Provide supervisory and program guidance to CHWs.
• Coordinate care transitions and integrate physical and behavioral health services.
• Assess clients’ physical, educational, and psychosocial needs and provide referrals.
• Collaborate with clients/families and interdisciplinary team to develop comprehensive care plans.
• Provide home visits and community contacts as needed.
• Participate in preventive care and health‑promotion initiatives.
• Monitor client response to plan of care and revise as indicated.
• Support client self‑management and empowerment.
• Request and review care records, coordinate labs and pharmacies.
• Use EMR and HIT to link services and facilitate communication.
• Utilize population health tools to identify program trends.
• Build and maintain relationships with community partners.
• Maintain required documentation per organization standards.
• Comply with MDHHS, CARF, and Medicaid criteria.
• Work with leadership to evaluate processes and propose improvements.
• Promote recovery and respect client autonomy.
• Attend team and staff meetings as requested.
• Support health services nursing, prescribers, and office staff with rooming as needed.

Walk, bend, stand, sit, lift up to 25 lbs (with or without assistance), reach, hear, see, hand/finger dexterity, drive vehicle. Must complete de‑escalation training provided.

• Complete and remain current in initial and ongoing training.
• Have personal phone and reliable internet access.
• Have reliable transportation and valid Michigan driver’s license with satisfactory record.
• Maintain confidentiality of client data.
• Knowledge of physical and behavioral health medications.
• Communicate professionally with physicians and other healthcare providers.
• Adhere to code of conduct, regulatory compliance, and personnel policies.
• Support recovery‑based, person‑centered, culturally competent service philosophy.
• Follow policies of the Department of Community Mental Health and other agencies.

Job description subject to change without notice.