Referral Coordination Team Registered Nurse

About the role

The Kansas City VA Medical Center seeks a Referral Coordination Team Registered Nurse to join the Office of Community Care. The incumbent is responsible for executing a streamlined approach to receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care.

Responsibilities

• Delivers fundamental, knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical competencies.
• Integrates biopsychosocial concepts, cognitive skills, and technically competent practice in providing care to clients with basic or complex needs.
• Collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team to influence care outcomes.
• Manages complex client situations with self-direction.
• Affirms intimate knowledge of the internal referral care process, clinical review criteria, utilization management standards, clinical documentation requirements, community care regulations, and VHA standards and guidelines.
• Affords patients education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
• Serves as a liaison between internal and community providers, managing the care of the veteran throughout the consult process.

Requirements

• Basic English language proficiency.
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by an accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
• Minimum one year of specialty medicine service and care coordination experience.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing with no additional professional nursing required (Nurse I - Level I).
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with no additional professional nursing experience required (Nurse I - Level II).
• Master's degree in nursing (MSN) with no additional professional nursing experience (Nurse I - Level III).
• Doctoral degree in nursing with no professional nursing experience (Nurse II).
• Master's degree in a related field with a BSN and no additional professional nursing experience (Nurse II).
• Doctoral degree in a related field with a BSN and one year of specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse II and meets all dimension requirements for Nurse III (Nurse III).

Skills

• Knowledge of internal referral care process.
• Understanding of clinical review criteria.
• Compliance with utilization management standards.
• Proficiency in clinical documentation requirements.
• Knowledge of community care regulations.
• Understanding of VHA standards and guidelines.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Regular salary increases.
• Potential for performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Insurance benefits including federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care.
• Retirement plan with federal pension.
• Telework eligibility.

Pay

Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards

Schedule

Monday - Friday - 7:00am - 3:30pm