About This Role
This full-time day position involves overseeing the quality of patient care and clinical performance of nurses and aides within a home health and hospice setting. The role suits a registered nurse with management experience who can organize clinical operations and make employment recommendations for staff.
Responsibilities
- Recommend employment decisions for staff to the director of operations, including decisions to hire, fire, advance, promote, or change status
- Responsible for overall quality of patient care and clinical performance of nurses and aides
- Organize clinical operations for the care center
- Review requests for services and determine patient eligibility/suitability for home care services
- Work with intake in coordinating patient referrals and admissions
- Oversee scheduling
- Oversee payor verification and precertification requirements
- Review documentation of other staff members and ensure missing, incomplete, and/or untimely documentation issues are resolved
- Assist clinicians in establishing immediate and long-term patient goals, setting priorities, and developing Plan of Care (POC)
- Regularly evaluate the needs of the patient and make necessary revisions to the plan of care in collaboration with clinicians
- May provide direct patient care on an infrequent basis in times of emergency
- Participate in the on-call process
- Assist with training of staff to ensure quality care, compliance, and fiscal responsibility
- Participate in the investigation and resolution of patient/family/physician concerns
Requirements
- Associate or bachelor's degree in nursing
- Current RN license, specific to the state(s) you are assigned to work
- One year of clinical RN experience in home health or hospice
- One year of RN management experience
- Current CPR certification
Benefits
- Choice of PPO or HSA medical plans with free telehealth
- Paid time off
- Up to $1,000 in free healthcare services with Amedisys HSA plan
- Up to $500 in wellness rewards for activities (use for spa, gym, sports, hobbies, pets and more)
- Mental health support with up to five free counseling sessions through the Employee Assistance program
- 401(k) with a company match
- Family support with infertility treatment coverage, adoption reimbursement, paid parental and family caregiver leave
- Fleet vehicle program (restrictions apply) and mileage reimbursement
About the Company
Amedisys is one of the largest and most trusted home health and hospice companies in the U.S.
