Branch Clinical Manager (RN) Home Health
About the role
This is an active, high-intensity clinical oversight position based at a home health branch location. The Clinical Manager is accountable for clinical execution, staff development, and rehospitalization prevention.
Responsibilities
- Own Clinical Execution for Your Branch
- Respond to clinical calls and identify actions needed with appropriate clinical judgement
- Monitor daily on-call events to identify urgent patient status changes
- Conduct real-time evaluation reports from assessing clinicians to identify immediate patient needs
- Complete transfer reviews daily to assess hospitalized patients including root cause analysis and action planning
- Review high-risk patients and coordinate proactive intervention to prevent avoidable events
- Lead and Develop Field Clinicians
- Coach clinicians on clinical reasoning, visit planning, patient education, and documentation quality
- Set and reinforce expectations for reliability, professionalism, and patient experience
- Address performance issues quickly and fairly, including structured improvement plans when needed
- Facilitate new clinician orientation: system orientation, SOP review, company orientation, and skills training
- Provide oversight of Field Supervisors — match, guide, and evaluate pairings for new hires and Field Supervisors
- Lead and oversee skills validations to ensure clinical competency before independent deployment
- Prepare for and lead weekly case conference: review patient progress and build actionable discussion agendas for care planning decisions
- Serve as a calm, decisive escalation point for clinical questions and patient risk
- Coordinate with leadership on high-risk cases, incidents, and sensitive patient situations
- Lead Quality & Compliance Review
- Review quality assurance issues and facilitate direct communication and education with the responsible clinicians
- Track HHCAHPS results and quality KPIs; identify trends and implement coaching or process changes
- Maintain branch survey readiness — own documentation quality, clinical compliance, and field staff preparedness
- Perform field supervisory visits to ensure adherence to infection control, safety, and compliance; assess and train on clinical skills, and improve documentation quality
- Make calm, decisive escalation decisions for high-risk patients, safety concerns, and incidents
- Coordinate with leadership on sensitive patient situations, hospitalizations, and quality investigations
Requirements
Active RN license required. Home health experience preferred. Ability to coach, mentor, and train clinical staff across skill levels. Strong clinical judgment and a structured approach to prioritization and escalation. Strong sense of personal accountability. Clear communication across clinical and operational teams. Willingness and ability to be present onsite as an active clinical leader.
Qualifications
Must-have qualifications include an active RN license, home health experience, and strong clinical judgment. Nice-to-haves include experience partnering with operations teams to prevent service failures and leading new hire clinical orientation and skills validation programs.
Skills
Energetic and passionate about building and developing clinical staff. Urgent and clear in problem-solving and decision-making. Holds high standards for clinical outcomes and documentation. Willing to engage in hands-on work and teach others.
Benefits
Not specified.
Pay
Not specified.
Schedule
Not specified.