Herc-Higher Education Recruitment Consortium

A higher degree of healthcare.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.

As the region's only Level I Trauma center, Harborview Medical Center is well known for innovations and excellence in trauma care and its centers of emphasis: Trauma, Burn, Neurosciences, AIDS/STD, Center for Advanced Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (CARER), and mentally-and medically- vulnerable populations. Harborview employees are committed to the vital role the institution plays in the immediate community, as well as the entire Northwest region. 

Challenge. Collaboration. Compassion. Become part of our team, and join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

Harborview Medical Center’s (HMC) Pioneer Square/Downtown Programs - Hobson Place has an outstanding opportunity for a 100% FTE (40 hours per week), Day shift, Registered Nurse (RN2).

Pioneer Square Downtown Programs are focused on serving Harborview Medical Center’s mission populations. Our primary care clinic sites are designated to serve adults who are homeless, vulnerably housed and low income providing primary medical care by appointment or walk-in. All our programs are located within the community to reduce barriers to care and help establish a medical home that is easily accessible to our most vulnerable neighbors. Working within a model of team medicine, the RN is responsible for complex care coordination, walk-in triage and completing patient care tasks including complex wound care, medication management and patient education in this fast paced, high volume clinic.

The Pioneer Square Downtown Programs - Hobson Place is looking for a fulltime RN for our Primary Care clinic sites. Utilizing the concepts of trauma informed care and harm reduction, we specialize in the care of patients living un-housed downtown Seattle. Practicing within a model of team medicine, the RN will follow evidence-based nursing practices, exercise independent judgement, and manage complex primary care health issues. You will collaborate with patients, their family, and other healthcare providers to develop and implement treatment plans. You will interact regularly with providers and support staff across the UW Medicine system, including pharmacies, hospital personnel, laboratories, and community-based mental health and case management.  The RNs see a high volume of patients for wound care, medication management, education, and walk-in triage.

Leadership and staff have identified Equity and Social Justice as the core values for the Harborview downtown primary care programs. We believe the quality of these values are enhanced and strengthened by working and learning from people with diverse experiences. Our goal is not only advance equity and justice at Harborview and Hobson Place Clinic, but to improve equity and justice within our community.

SCHEDULE: 100% FTE (40 hours per week), Day shift

LOCATION:  Harborview’s Pioneer Square/Downtown Programs – primarily sited at Hobson Place Clinic and/or Pioneer Square Clinic however, may require working in other sites in the Pioneer Square Downtown Programs at times.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
2 years of acute or ambulatory care experience.

STRONGLY DESIRED:
Wound care experience
Experience working with vulnerably housed individuals
Good working knowledge of Trauma Informed Care, Harm Reduction, and Motivational Interviewing
Experience working with patients dealing with mental illness and substance use disorder
Bi-lingual

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
Washington State RN license required by start date.