Jobbörse

What We Provide

• Referral bonus opportunities    
• Generous paid time off (PTO), starting at 30 days of paid time off and 9 company holidays  
• Health insurance plan for you and your loved ones, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability    
• Employer-matched retirement saving funds  
• Personal and financial wellness programs   
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for healthcare and dependent care  
• Generous tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees  
• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement   
• Internal mobility, generous tuition reimbursement, CEU credits, and advancement opportunities   

What You Will Do

• Manages and provides the full scope of advanced nursing practice for targeted patient populations, which may include short-term treatment of members at the point of care. Evaluates patient responses to therapy/interventions. Ensures revision of the inter-professional plan of care as necessary to achieve quality outcomes.
• Serves as the clinical authority on individualized care teams and leads rounds and interdisciplinary care team meetings.
• Manages and provides comprehensive, advanced nursing care, including post-discharge aftercare visits, annual comprehensive assessment visits, palliative care-care management program onboarding, and change in condition assessment visits (including physical examination, comprehensive history, screening for physical and/or psychological conditions, and point of care testing). Urgent interventions (i.e., escalations for the Care Teams, RPM, and the 24/7 Line), pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, ordering treatments and DME,  preventative health maintenance activities, care management, referrals, discharge planning, counseling, and patient education.  Establishes a treatment plan based on clinical findings and determines when further evaluation by the collaborating physician, specialist, or emergency care is warranted.
• Collaborates with patients, families, primary care physicians and other team members to provide assessment and care planning.  Assesses, plans, and provides intensive and continuous care management across client settings.
• Manages and provides clinical services in compliance with standards of Patient-Centered Medical Home standards, meaningful use of medical record data, HEDIS and QARR quality of care measurements.
• Manages inter-professional team efforts regarding the medical, nursing, therapy and ancillary care provided to patients to ensure quality outcomes are achieved.
• Participates in on call coverage schedule to ensure 24/7 access to practice clinicians.
• Assesses, educates, and improves client and caregiver knowledge of chronic disease, self-care management, and identification of changes in health status, including appropriate responses and actions through individualized education and inter-professional interventions.
• Observes and analyzes team performance patterns related to population under care and assists in developing interventions to improve team performance.  Provides remedial support and guidance to interdisciplinary team members to address implementation/evaluation of plans that maintain/increase customer experience with care, cost-efficiency, and quality care compliance with regulatory standards.
• Communicates with internal and external care partners regarding the needs of the patient or population to ensure interventions occur in a timely and appropriate manner. Intervenes as needed when the care plan is not executed and remediates the situation to prevent reoccurrence.
• Performs procedures as outlined in collaborative practice agreement and as privileged by the Credentialing Committee.
• Manages quality of medical record documentation and submits billing information in accordance with Professional Corporation policy.
• Provides care in one or more care settings based on the clinical requirements: virtually, telephonically or travels to patients’ homes and/or other facilities with varying environments (e.g., elevated buildings, walk-ups, care facilities, single/multiple family homes, presence of pets, etc.) using approved transportation options.
• Upon request, performs peer reviews of work performance, including quality of care, clinical documentation, coding and billing practices, communication skills, and population surveillance.
• May participate in the VNS Health Medical Care at Home Quality and Professional Advisory Committee and any associated workgroups related to development of evidence based clinical models of care, peer education and training, quality improvement, medical record configuration and reporting, maximizing the use of clinical decision support systems.
• May act as a preceptor for student Nurse Practitioners, providing excellent role modeling of community-based primary care practice.
• Assumes responsibility for continued professional growth, and maintains professional certification and licensure.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Licenses and Certifications:

• License and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State required

• Certificate (license) and current registration to practice as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of New York, with a specialty in adult health, family health or gerontology required

• Valid driver's license, as determined by operational/regional needs may be required

• Maintains credentialed status with VNS Health Medical Care at Home and associated managed care plans required

• Maintains NPI, Medicaid and Medicare provider numbers preferred

• Maintains a collaborative practice agreement with a physician in compliance with New York State regulations preferred

• Must be certified by ANCC or another accrediting Nurse Practitioner body – in order to bill Medicare and meet credentialing requirements required

Education:

• Master's Degree of Science in Nursing, or other graduate degree from a nurse practitioner educational program registered by the New York State Education Department as qualifying for NP certification (licensure) required

• Current ANCC or AANP certification as an adult, family or geriatric nurse practitioner required

Work Experience:

• Minimum of two years of experience as a nurse practitioner utilizing full scope of practice preferred

• Clinical home care experience or two years managerial experience preferred

• Demonstrated knowledge of HEDIS and QARR quality measures, ICD-10 and CPT coding for reimbursement of services required

• Bilingual skills, as determined by operational needs required