About this Nurse Manager - Homeless Services role at Eliot Community Human Services
Join Eliot – A Place to Belong, Grow, and Inspire Change
At Eliot, your work has purpose. You’ll be part of a compassionate, mission-driven team committed to resilience, empowerment, and lasting change. We foster an inclusive workplace where all backgrounds and perspectives are valued, creating a culture of belonging and professional growth.
Benefits at Eliot
We prioritize your well-being, work-life balance, and career growth. Benefit eligible positions include:
- Generous Paid Time Off – Vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- Comprehensive Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Retirement Savings – 401(k) with employer match
- Wellness & Family Support – Discounted fitness services and access to trusted childcare resources
- Financial Security – 100% company-paid life and accidental death insurance
- Professional Growth – Ongoing training, career advancement programs, tuition reimbursement, and leadership development
Eliot Community Human Services is seeking a Nurse Manager in our Homeless Division.
The ideal candidate is a Licensed Registered Nurse or Nurse Practitioner with experience supporting unhoused adults with complex medical and behavioral health needs. You are deeply committed to harm reduction principles and possess strong leadership skills necessary to guide a multidisciplinary team of nurses, case managers, and outreach workers.
You excel at engaging vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness, trauma, and substance use disorders to connect them with critical healthcare resources and help them stabilize in permanent housing.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise nurses, nursing students, case management staff as assigned.
- Manage a multidisciplinary team to link clients with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and complex medical illnesses with primary and mental health care, substance use treatment and provide case management in order to stabilize them in permanent housing.
- Assist people served with complicated medical, psychiatric, and trauma profiles with medication management linkage, referrals, specialized case management and systems advocacy.
- Assist with chronic disease management and will support medication adherence with education, pill boxes, refill management and reminder calls/texts.
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with outside agencies and make appropriate referrals based on identified needs and treatment preferences.
- Meet with clients on the street, in treatment programs, hospitals and houses of correction in order to maintain continuity of care.
- Provide harm reduction counseling to people served who use illicit drugs and refer those to sites where they can access safer drug use supplies, be monitored after use or get medication assisted treatment if desired.
- Provide consultation and guidance to Division Leadership and Teams within the Homeless Services Division as assigned.
- Participate in strategic planning and leadership meeting forums within the Homeless Services Division
Qualifications:
- Licensed Registered Nurse with a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in nursing
- At least 4 years’ experience working with adults with complex medical and/or behavioral health diagnoses.
- Must possess working knowledge of psychiatric medications, psychiatric and medical treatments
- Experience working with patients experiencing homelessness with severe trauma, mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders.
- Demonstrated ability to engage patients who are actively using substances as well as those in all phases of the recovery continuum.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate and delegate with a diverse group of outreach workers, recovery coaches, and medical providers internally and externally.
- Able to work autonomously in a clinical setting or in a street-based setting.
- Demonstrated ability to provide care using harm reduction principles and to provide overdose prevention and response.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation to and from work and for the transportation of clients as needed.
Schedule: Monday- Friday, 9am-5pm
At Eliot, we are committed to supporting you at every stage of your career, providing opportunities for growth, purpose, and community. We foster belonging in the workplace by identifying and removing barriers that may prevent individuals of all backgrounds from reaching their full potential, advancing into leadership roles, and fully engaging at all levels of the organization.
Apply today and make a difference.
