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The Float CSM, in collaboration with market SCSM/DCO, provides leadership coverage and is accountable for the performance of a team of Advanced Practice Clinicians (APC) and Registered Nurses (RN). In collaboration with the SCSM/DCO, the Float CSM will be responsible for clinical outcomes and business operation targets of market.
- Assist in the development of functional market level strategies, plans, and organizational priorities
- Identify and resolve technical, operational, and organizational challenges outside and within clinical team
- Develop internal and external strategic relationships, which support program expansion and continuing success
- Directly manage clinical staff to ensure business goals/metrics are achieved
- This position requires 80% travel to various states/markets
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership coverage for clinical teams, based on business need
- Continue team direction, resolve problems, and provide guidance to members of own team
- Oversee work activities of other supervisors and staff
- Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address business and operational challenges
- Influence and/or provide input to forecasting and planning activities
Job Duties:
Staff Performance and Internal/External Relationship (Clinical & Leadership Proficiency)
- Manage salary, bonus incentives and policies in a manner which reward performance excellence
- Ensure effective orientation and development for clinical staff
- Utilize Complex Population Management performance tools that hold the clinical team accountable for market metrics and performance standards
- Promote individual development by providing learning and growth opportunities to clinical staff
- Actively participate in local/regional APC, physician, and geriatric associations with goal of developing clinical and leadership skills
- Communicate needs and issues addressed by clinical staff to local market and corporate leadership as appropriate
- Participate in site specific strategic planning activities
- Develop solutions to problems or barriers by partnering with key stakeholders
- Provide clinical and clinical operations expertise on business development efforts
- Serve as a role model to internal and external partners
Program Quality and Revenue Accuracy (Business Proficiency)
- Oversee implementation and adoption of clinical and quality initiatives
- Accountable for specific financial targets related to clinical programs
- Use knowledge of the business and financial goals to determine and communicate clinical priorities
- Partner with staff to achieve business goals
- Monitor and hold clinical team accountable for documentation and coding initiatives to achieve revenue accuracy
- Actively engage, coach and drive clinical staff in implementing activities to grow same store and new membership (product/payer specific)
Professionalism:
- Personal and Professional Accountability:
- Create an environment that facilitates the team to initiate actions that produce positive results
- Ability to hold self and others accountable for actions and results
- Answers for one’s own behavior and actions
- Career Planning:
- Develops own career path
- Coach others in the development of their career planning
- Create an environment in which professional and personal growth are an expectation
- Ethics:
- Integrate high ethical standards and UHG core values into everyday work activities
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Active and unrestricted license in the state where you reside
- Certified Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant through a national board
- For NPs: Graduate of an accredited master’s degree in Nursing (MSN) program or doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program and board certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (AG AC NP), Adult/Family or Gerontology Nurse Practitioners (ACNP), with preferred certification as ANP, FNP, or GNP
- For PAs: Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant degree program and currently board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
- Current active DEA licensure/prescriptive authority or ability to obtain post-hire, per state regulations (unless prohibited in state of practice)
- 3 years of experience as an APC
- 2 years of experience as a CSM, demonstrating progressive responsibility
- Ability to lift a 30 pound bag in and out of car and to navigate stairs and a variety of dwelling conditions and configurations
- Ability to gain a collaborative practice agreement, if applicable in your state of practice
- Access to reliable transportation that will enable you to travel to client and / or patient sites within a designated area
- Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3 years experience as a CSM at Optum
- 1 years of experience as an APC at Optum
- Experience in adult teaching environment
- Knowledge and understanding of geriatrics clinical management
- Proficient computer skills including the ability to document medical information with written and electronic medical records
- Proficient in excel
- Ability to develop and maintain positive customer relationships
- Ability to work across functions and businesses to achieve business goals
- Effective in motivating and mentoring colleagues and peers
- Able to quickly adapt to change and drive change management within team and market
- High level of organizational skills, self- motivation, and ability to manage time independently
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment
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