Nurse Liaison

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About the role

Siskin Hospital for Rehabilitation is seeking a Nurse Liaison to join our team. The ideal candidate is a great communicator who loves working with patients and their families, possesses a "salesman" mentality, and can travel within Chattanooga and surrounding areas to represent the top rehab team.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for pre-screening potential patients and preparing documentation to determine, in collaboration with the medical staff, the appropriateness of admission.
• Coordinating patient admissions when approved, including gathering all necessary information for the admission process.
• Initiating contact with referred patients and families and maintaining frequent communication with both the patient and the patient’s family.
• Providing opportunities for patient/family to make informed decisions about selecting Siskin Hospital for Rehabilitation.
• Providing medical information when requested by case managers or for purposes of precertification.
• Performing routine public relations activities to promote optimal communication between the Admissions Department and referral sources/guests.
• Traveling to referring facilities to assist with patient admissions and liaison work.

Requirements

• Experience in and/or knowledge of comprehensive rehabilitation.
• Experience in clinically completing nursing assessment functions.
• Experience in patient/family/staff education.
• Licensure/Certification: RN license in Tennessee and Georgia if applicable, Alabama licensure may be required for Liaisons functioning/covering in the outreach role. CRRN preferred.
• Valid Class D driver’s license.
• Basic computer skills.
• Positive and flexible attitude when responding to situations.
• Excellent marketing and customer service skills.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Excellent organizational abilities and attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively and efficiently interact with a broad scope of personnel in various clinical and business settings.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to respond to situations with a positive manner and flexible attitude.
• Excellent marketing and customer service skills.

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Strength: Position requires ability to frequently lift light objects and some heavy items.
• Manual Dexterity: Position requires performing simple manipulative skills such as copying, filing, collating, stapling, and moderately difficult manipulative skills like typing and data entry.
• Coordination: Position requires performing tasks that require hand-eye coordination such as typing and data entry.
• Mobility: Position requires being able to sit for prolonged periods, frequently move throughout the building, and travel independently to various referring facilities.
• Visual Discrimination: Position requires seeing objects closely as in reading patient admission charts, medical records, and prescreen forms.
• Hearing: Position requires hearing normal sounds with some degree of noise as in answering the telephone and discussing matters with patients, family members, and other hospital staff.
• Concentration: Position requires being able to constantly concentrate on fine detail with constant interruptions.
• Attention Span: Position requires being able to constantly attend to a task or function for more than 60 minutes at a time.
• Conceptualization: Position requires understanding and relating to theories behind several related concepts.
• Memory: Position requires remembering multiple tasks/assignments given to self and others over long periods of time.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance