RN Clinical Manager Home Health

About the role

Amedisys, part of the Optum family of businesses, provides home health, hospice and community-based services that help people receive quality care where they feel most comfortable: at home. Rooted in personalized care, we support patients and provide comfort through each stage of their health journey, while building trusted relationships along the way. As the Clinical Manager, you will provide leadership, supervision, and coordination of therapy services to ensure high-quality, compliant, and cost-effective patient care, while maintaining fiscal responsibility, facilitating patient care communication, and supporting referrals, scheduling, patient visits, and documentation as needed.

Responsibilities

• Recommends employment decisions for staff to the director of operations, including decisions to hire, fire, advance, promote or change status
• Responsible for overall quality of patient care and clinical performance of nurses and aides
• Organizes clinical operations for the care center
• Reviews requests for services and determines patient eligibility/suitability for home care services
• Works with intake in coordinating patient referrals and admissions
• Oversees scheduling
• Oversees payor verification and precertification requirements
• Reviews documentation of other staff members and ensures missing, incomplete and/or untimely documentation issues are resolved
• Assists clinicians in establishing immediate and long-term patient goals, setting priorities and developing Plan of Care (POC)
• Regularly evaluates the needs of the patient and makes necessary revisions to the plan of care in collaboration with clinicians
• May provide direct patient care on an infrequent basis in times of emergency
• Participates in the on-call process
• Assists with training of staff to ensure quality care, compliance and fiscal responsibility
• Participates in the investigation and resolution of patient/family/physician concerns

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor's degree in nursing
• Current RN license, specific to the state(s) you are assigned to work
• 1+ year of clinical RN experience in home health or hospice
• 1+ year of RN management experience
• Current CPR certification

Pay

The salary for this role will range from $73,188 to $109,782 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution

All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.