Clinical Services Manager (RN) - Evercare Hospice

Company:	UnitedHealth Group Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (15)
Job Location(s):	Maryland Heights
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:	Not Provided
Required Education:	Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Healthcare - Home Services

Position Description

Clinical Services Manager (RN) - Evercare Hospice-328367

Description

We are seeking a self-motivated RN to manage an interdisciplinary team and provide care to hospice patients in the St. Louis area. This is an excellent chance to bring your leadership skills to a growing hospice organization. If you are interested in helping to ensure continuity of care from admission to discharge/transfer to bereavement, we invite you to apply.

Primary responsibilities include:

Managing all patient care services of the team, including volunteer and bereavement, to ensure that services are rendered as integrated components of the interdisciplinary plan of care
Reviewing prospective patient admissions
Be a "hands-on" team member when needed, do what is necessary to meet patient needs, schedule admissions, and support team members.
Pro-active individual thrives in a fast paced environment, organized, and efficient.
Coordinating palliative care measures for pain and symptom management
Reviewing all prospective live discharges to ensure effective discharge planning
Reviewing the type and level of team services provided (staffing, medications, DME, supplies, level of care changes to inpatient and continuous care, etc.) to ensure that they are appropriate
Managing the team schedule and ensuring coordination of services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Facilitating team meetings and ensuring interdisciplinary input into the update and revision of the plan of care meets the changing needs of the patient and family
Interviewing, hiring, training, supervising, evaluating and disciplining staff
Ensuring staff competence and performance levels through field visits, documentation evaluation and team-based in-services
Monitoring clinical records and all team activities to ensure that they are accurate, complete and meet required standards in accordance with hospice policy and all regulatory bodies
Developing and implementing performance improvement activities
Ensuring that team completes patient/family satisfaction surveys and implements Quality Improvement measures and standards
Performing substantive chart reviews
Performing utilization review of continuous care and inpatient levels of care
Communicating with patients/families and their attending physicians when a patient is considering revocation
Scheduling visits with LTC and Contract Bed facilities to ensure care plan integration, customer satisfaction and to discuss criteria for determining appropriateness
Looks for ways to help us grow
Providing in-services to customers in conjunction with other team members

Here, you will discover a culture that grows through challenge. That evolves by being flexible. That succeeds by staying true to our mission to make health care work effectively and efficiently for seniors. Put your best to work for us, and discover extraordinary opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

Current, unrestricted RN license for the state of Missouri (or ability to obtain through reciprocity)
3 years clinical experience
Solid experience managing a clinical team
Knowledge of state and federal hospice rules

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in a hospice and/or home health setting
Computer savvy and able to work independently. Prior experience working with an EMR system
Bachelor's degree or higher

Ovations is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

Imagine joining a group of professionals and clinicians who are working to improve quality of life for patients dealing with terminal illness or conditions. Consider the influence you can have on the quality of care for millions of people. Now, enhance that success with enthusiasm you can really feel.

That's how it is at Ovations. Everyday, we're collaborating to improve the health and well being of the fastest growing segment of our nation's population. And we're doing it with an intense amount of dedication.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

Job Hospice

Primary LocationUS-MO-Maryland Heights

Organization Hospice Missouri

Schedule Full-time

Number of Openings 1