What are the responsibilities and job description for the Springfield, IL - Nursing Consultant position at University of Illinois at Chicago?
This position will work from our Springfield Regional Office.
The DSCC Nursing Consultant provides care coordination services to families eligible for DSCC Core services within a particular geographic area. Provides consultation to other members of the multi-disciplinary team utilizing skills and knowledge acquired from academic training and professional experience as a Nurse.
Provides care coordination services:
- Develops a care coordination plan that is family-centered, community based and coordinated.
- Facilitates the implementation of the care coordination plan.
- Monitors the care coordination plan activities.
- Revises the care coordination plan to address the changing and ongoing concerns and priorities of the family.
- Coordinates all available health care benefits
Identifies children eligible for DSCC services:
- Assists in determining general eligibility for each assigned case along with Program Coordinator Assistant.
- Determines medical eligibility for each assigned case.
- Assists in the completion of the financial application process for each assigned case along with Program Coordinator Assistant.
- Identifies potentially eligible children for the Home Care Program
Enters, prepare, transmits, updates, scans and uploads information/documents in electronic records:
- Demographic and medical social data from applicants/recipients, families including completing forms and letters in support of care coordination services.
- Receives, processes and routes incoming/outgoing written applicant/recipient correspondence, reports, etc.
Participates as a member of the Regional Office multi-disciplinary team:
- Complies with University, Division and Regional Office policy and procedures.
- Provides discipline based expertise to the Regional Office multi?disciplinary team.
- Maintains nursing expertise in support of the Regional Office multi?disciplinary team.
Promotes interagency collaboration and an organized network of integrated services:
- Provides community education programs regarding DSCC services
- Participates in developing and/or implementing a netwroking plan for the Regional Office.
Participates in family-centered, community based clinics (if applicable):
- Coordinates all assigned DSCC clinics
- Participates as a Nursing Consultant clinic team member
Participates in special projects impacting DSCC:
- Participates in agency committees/projects on a regional or statewide basis
- Participates in DSCC sponsored interagency programs
- Performs other duties as assigned
1. Licensed as a registered professional nurse in the State of Illinois
2. Bachelor’s degree
3. Two years of public health or specialized nursing experience