Patient Care Coordinator, RN or LVN

Summary: Coordinates team based care to provide health services to individuals, families and/or their communities through effective partnerships with patients their caregivers and their physician. Facilitates a shared goal model within and across settings to achieve coordinated high quality care that is patient/family centered.

We offer a good benefit package and you start to accrue sick and vacation time, day one if full time. Accrue 96.2 hours sick and 80.6 hours vacation that roll over to the next year if not used.

Requirements:

1. RN Licensure for the State of Texas, BSN Preferred - OR LVN Licensure for the State of Texas.

2. 3-5 years’ experience in clinical or community health settings.

3. Previous Care Coordination and/or Case Management experience preferred.

4. Demonstrates evidence of essential leadership, communication, education, and counseling skills.

5. Proficient in communication technologies (email, cell phone, etc.).

6. Effective organizational skills, demonstrates ability to maintain accurate notes and records.

7. Previous experience with health IT systems and data reports preferred.

8. Previous experience with mobilizing community resources, navigating through the healthcare continuum and working with disparate populations preferred.

9. Ability to speak a relevant second language preferred.

Competencies:

· Core values consistent with a patient/family centered approach to care.

· Demonstrates professional, appropriate, effective written, verbal and nonverbal communication skills.

· Demonstrates a positive attitude and respectful, professional customer service.

· Acknowledges patient’s rights on confidentiality issues, maintains patient confidentiality at all times, and adheres to HIPAA guidelines and regulations.

· Proactively acts as patient advocate, responding with empathy and respect to resolve patient/family concerns. Recognizes opportunities for improvement to meeting patient concerns.

· Demonstrates continual learning skills, effects changes in approach to care based on established evidence based practice.

· Demonstrates professional practice behavior, provides mentoring/coaching of other population health/care coordination team members.

· Cultivates effective partnerships and collaboration with physician providers.

· Demonstrates understanding of use of I.T. resources and patient databases to promote successful/appropriate provider encounters.

· Demonstrates effective delegation skills to streamline operational workflows and optimize inter-office resources.

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Provide a coordinated strategic approach to detect early and manage effectively the patient with chronic disease. Establish an effective internal tracking system for identified patients.

· Coach patients/families toward successful self-management of their chronic disease.

· Utilizing tools and documents that support a guided care process, collaborate with patient/family toward an effective plan of care.

1. Assess patient and family’s unmet health and social needs.

2. Provide effective communications to improve health literacy

3. Develop a care plan based on mutual goals with the patient, family, and providers (emergency plan, medical summary, and ongoing action plan, as appropriate).

4. Monitor adherence to care plans, evaluate effectiveness, monitor patient progress in a timely way, and facilitate changes as needed.

5. Create ongoing processes for patients and families to determine and request the level of care coordination support they desire at any given point in time.

· Promote healthy behaviors in all populations and ensure navigation assistance with community resources.

· Facilitate patient access to appropriate medical and specialty providers as well as other care coordination team support specialists (e.g. Diabetes Educator).

· Cultivate and support primary care and subspecialty co-management with timely communication, inquiry, follow-up, and integration of information into the care plan regarding transitions-in-care and referrals.

· Serve as the contact-point, advocate, and informational resource for patient, family, care team, payers, and community resources.

· Ensure effective tracking of test results, medication management, and adherence to follow-up appointments.

· Develop systems to prevent errors (e.g. effective medication reconciliation and shared medical records)

· Facilitate and attend meetings between patient, family, care team, payers, and community resources, as needed.

· Attend all Care Coordination related training and meeting activities.

· Provide feedback for the improvement of the Care Coordination Program.

Salary - Commensurate

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $19.00 - $32.50 per hour

Benefits:

• Continuing education credits
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Medical-Surgical

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• Hospital

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Gatesville, TX 76528: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Application Question(s):

• Are you willing to allow Coryell Health to run a background check?

Experience:

• Nursing: 1 year (Preferred)
• Case management: 1 year (Preferred)
• Patient service: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN for Texas or compact state (Preferred)
• BSN (Preferred)
• LVN for the state of Texas or Compact License (Preferred)

Work Location: One location