Inpatient Care Manager (RN or LSW) - Per Diem

Job Description Summary: Overall, the role of the inpatient care manager is to optimize the quality and continuity of care for patients during their hospital stay, with a focus on promoting positive health outcomes and patient satisfaction. Job Description: The Role: Inpatient Care Manager (RN or LSW) Investigates, assesses, and plans interventions to help patients cope with social, emotional, economic, and environmental problems. Position Highlights: This position is per diem and offers schedule flexibility. What You'll Do: Interviews and assesses patients and/or patient's family, caregivers, and/or legal representatives. Determines, prioritizes, provides, and/or arranges for needed internal and external services/interventions. Consults with multidisciplinary teams regularly to evaluate patient's status and appropriateness of medical care, including coordination of care in all care centers. Participates in discharge planning including identification and coordination of appropriate resources. Provides discharge education and resource referrals to patients when necessary. Performs chart review to identify actual or potential issues with service delivery, patient outcomes and satisfaction, compliance, cost, and reimbursement. Your Qualifications: Maine state licensure as a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) or Registered Nurse (RN) is required Excellent teamwork, communication, and collaboration skills Proven and demonstrated critical thinking skills Why Choose MaineGeneral: Access comprehensive wellness benefits, including health, dental, vision, and more. Benefit from employee discounts, generous parental leave, and ample earned time off. Retirement planning with up to 4% company contributions. Potential student loan reimbursement Embrace growth opportunities within our organization Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0 Work Shift: Job Exempt: No Benefits: Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future. Physical Wellness: We offer wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle. Emotional Wellness: When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household. Financial Wellness: An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center. We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan. Career Mobility: Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource – they’re how we grow our business and care for our community. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 . Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability: In furtherance of MaineGeneral's policy regarding Equal Employment Opportunity, MaineGeneral has developed a written Affirmative Action Program which sets forth the policies, practices and procedures that MaineGeneral is committed to in order to ensure that its policy of nondiscrimination and affirmative action is accomplished. The Affirmative Action Plan for Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities is available for inspection by any employee or candidate for employment upon request, during normal business hours, in the Human Resources Department. Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 . EEO is Law