RN Case Manager - Homecare

Job Description:

The Homecare RN Case Manager serves as a key member of the interdisciplinary team and actively manages and directs resource utilization to achieve the highest quality outcomes during a patient care experience. The incumbent oversees the effective coordination of services and manages issues in the following main areas: admission and discharge, team conference and interdisciplinary plan of care communication, patient and family education/relations, payor relations, and coordination of care for all disciplines and total fiscal management. The incumbent performs ongoing utilization and quality reviews and acts as a liaison between the payor and patient while assuring that cost-effective treatment is provided by the team. The incumbent performs RN Shared Leadership duties by supporting the fundamentals of safety, quality, experience, and stewardship by providing clinical expertise and leadership to their department. The Homecare RN Case Manager has significant leadership responsibilities (e.g., leading change, scheduling, maintenance of staff competencies, new employee selection/orientation, constructive discipline, shared leadership council representation, caregiver check-ins). The incumbent has accountability for coordination of a cohort of caregivers and actively participates in the overall operations of the department, development of department practice, and provision of patient care with specified accountabilities for implementation and outcomes.

What does it mean to be a part of our Homecare & Hospice team?

Home is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable, relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Homecare & Hospice is privileged to be the caring hands of Intermountain Healthcare in the home bringing quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. Homecare allows patients to be at home, where they want to be, through their health journey. This exciting work allows you to develop your clinical skills while experiencing this unique and highly rewarding care environment.

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Posting Specifics

• Benefits Eligible: Yes

• Shift Details: Full time, Monday through Friday business hours

• Rotating weekends/holidays

• Mileage reimbursement and shift differentials available

• During COVID-19: Proper PPE is provided, and strict guidelines followed to ensure the safety of caregivers/patients

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

• Paid Time Off

• Education Assistance

• Tuition Loan Assistance

• 401(k) 2% for all caregivers with additional matching up to 4%

• Health and Wellness Programs including a Live Well Incentive Program

• Access to on site fitness gyms

• Over 302,000 discount offers across 10,000 cities on everything from pizza, the zoo, movie tickets, car rentals, and hotels

• Cell Phone Discounts (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile)

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Scope

The Homecare RN Case Manager provides case management to a defined patient population in accordance with Intermountain Healthcare's policies, procedures, guidelines, and professional licensure.

Physical Requirements:

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, and identify equipment and supplies.
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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, and driving a vehicle.
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Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
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Frequently walks and assists with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (e.g., full of furniture, equipment, power cords on the floor). Need to ascend and descend stairs or uneven surface to access patients.
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Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Homecare - St George

Work City:

St George

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40