[Hiring] Medication/ Immunization Coordinator @American Addiction Centers

Role Description

• Acts as a vaccine, immunization, and medication subject matter expert for the medical group.
• Maintains current knowledge of state and federal regulations, CHIP and Vaccine for Children programs.
• Takes appropriate action to remain compliant and ensure patients are offered the current immunizations based on CDC recommendations and AAH vaccine schedule.
• Establishes quality control measures through remote monitoring, audits, and trending of incident reports to identify areas of risk for the medical group.
• Collaborates with leadership to establish system standards, processes, and action plans to mitigate risks to the patient, team members, and the organization.
• Regularly provides content to update policies, procedures, toolkits, and audit tools to reflect current guidelines and best practices.
• Works closely with the education department, informatics, and ambulatory nursing leadership to support development of new team member orientation, ongoing competency and “just in time” training.
• Participates in and collaborates on medication safety committees to establish, implement, monitor, and measure goals related to safe storage, handling, administration and documentation workflows of medications and vaccines.
• Establishes working relationships at state and community level for immunization programs.
• Effectively communicates existing practices/information and identifies new evidence-based practices to employ.
• Coordinates need-to-know information and hosts regularly scheduled meetings with vaccine coordinators and/or their supervisors.
• Acts as the liaison between AAH Information Technology, purchasing, facilities and manufacturers to ensure workflows function properly.
• Works with Clinical Informatics and HIT to optimize EPIC functionality for documenting vaccinations, including how to integrate Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR) and I-Care.
• Includes training new team members/site vaccine coordinators, vaccine inventory, and verifying immunization records for outside sources.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 3 years of experience in providing vaccinations, immunizations, and medications within a pediatric and/or family practice clinic setting.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Vaccine for Children Program – Wisconsin and Illinois, Center for Disease Control Immunization Standards, WI and IL immunization registries.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships.
• In-depth knowledge of vaccination/immunization protocols, records, regulations, and administration.
• Demonstration of organization, critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as an effective member with varying levels of the health care teams.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TEAMS), electronic mail and electronic medical record systems.

Benefits

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training.
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job.
• Incentive pay for select positions.
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.
• Paid Time Off programs.
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Educational Assistance Program.