Community Health Nurse Manager

Agency Overview

At Neighborhood House (NH), our vision is a healthy, diverse, and welcoming community, free of poverty and racism, where all people thrive. We serve over 13,000 individuals in Seattle/South King County in the areas of early learning, youth development, citizenship, employment, health, housing, resource navigation, and aging adults. In addition to direct services, we use our experience and deep connection to our communities to advocate for equitable access to services, and policy changes that advance equity for all.

When one of us succeeds, we all succeed!

Neighborhood House is on a mission to becoming a multi-cultural, anti-racist agency. We are achieving this by sharing power, listening to and learning from each other and our communities, and working to repair past inequities. We are building a culture where equity is the foundation, inclusiveness is the default, and access for marginalized communities is the norm.

Our Agency Values include Community, Equity, Integrity, Relationships, and Sustainability.

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Neighborhood House has a longstanding commitment to address social determinants of health and decrease health disparities in King County. The primary role of this position is to oversee the team of Community Nurses who provide clinical leadership, medical expertise, training, and consultation to staff and clients at Neighborhood House. The Community Health Nurse Manager reports to the Director of Community Health with key support from the Family and Health Services Director.

The programs at Neighborhood House assist a large and diverse community‑dwelling client population with multiple risk factors including housing instability, physical and/or behavioral health problems, long‑term care needs, substance use disorders, cognitive status concerns, and physical or emotional neglect or abuse. The Community Health Nurse Manager will be a dynamic member of the agency’s leadership team, overseeing the work of the Community Health Nurses and developing programs that will decrease health disparities and address the health barriers facing our clients.

The ideal candidate will be a Registered Nurse with experience supervising staff, leading community‑based health initiatives, navigating within a dynamic and flexible atmosphere, and working with high‑acuity populations. This position will be primarily located in Seattle, Tukwila, and South King County.

• Work directly with agency staff and community members to envision, design, implement, and evaluate initiatives that will address health disparities experienced by the communities Neighborhood House serves.
• With the nursing team, plan and perform onsite education and training on disease management and health promotion with staff, clients, and client caregivers.
• Design, implement, and evaluate workflows to ensure that the nursing team meets the complex funder requirements and follows federal, state, and program policies and procedures for nursing referrals for a variety of risk factors.
• Discuss medical/nursing issues and responsibilities with the program leadership on a regular basis.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Recruit, hire, train, and supervise a qualified team of Community Health Nurses; ensure program nursing requirements are met to the agency and program’s audit standards.
• Support Nursing staff in providing nursing services as needed; this may include meeting with staff or clients for consultation, assessment, and/or intervention.
• Provide clear expectations, set individual and team goals, provide regular formal and informal feedback on ongoing performance.
• Assess staff development needs and provide appropriate on‑going professional training appropriate to the field.
• Participate in grant writing and fundraising activities as requested.
• Manage all program elements and participant activities to meet the highest standards of quality and to meet all funder and internal performance outcomes.
• Develop and maintain key project documents to support all aspects of programming, including regular program reports,…