In-Office LPN: Collaborative Behavioral Health Manager

The MedElite Group; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 64,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Company-sponsored life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Infinite Medical P.C. is seeking a licensed practical nurse to serve as a Behavioral Health Care Manager within our Collaborative Care Model program.

This is an in-office, non-face-to-face care management role supporting residents in skilled nursing and long-term care facilities. You will perform medical record review, behavioral health screening, care planning, registry management, and care-team collaboration while ensuring compliance with HIPAA and clinical protocols.

Qualifications

• Active and unrestricted LPN license.
• Graduate of an accredited practical nursing program.
• Strong clinical documentation and medical-record review skills.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately escalate behavioral health, medication, and patient-safety concerns.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple patients, deadlines, and follow-up responsibilities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with providers, psychiatric consultants, facility staff, and clinical leadership.
• Proficiency with electronic medical records and computer-based tracking systems.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and HIPAA compliance.

Responsibilities

• Review patient medical records, diagnoses, medications, behavioral health documentation, provider notes, laboratory results, and relevant changes in condition.
• Document validated behavioral health screening and monitoring tools, as appropriate, including PHQ-9, GAD-7, MoCA, BIMS, and other approved assessments.
• Monitor patients' behavioral health symptoms, treatment response, functional status, medication changes, and progress toward established goals.
• Identify changes in patient status, potential safety concerns, documentation inconsistencies, medication-related concerns, and other findings requiring escalation.
• Maintain ongoing, non-face-to-face contact with patients, authorized representatives, facility staff, and members of the care team when clinically appropriate and permitted.
• Develop and maintain individualized behavioral health care plans in collaboration with the treating provider and interdisciplinary care team.
• Update care plans when a patient's condition, treatment, medications, screening results, or goals change.
• Assist with coordinating behavioral health services and follow-up recommendations.
• Support brief, evidence-based behavioral health interventions within the employee's training, licensure, organizational policy, and established clinical protocols.
• Communicate relevant clinical findings and care gaps to providers, facility staff, and clinical leadership.
• Facilitate collaboration among the patient's medical, behavioral health, and facility-based care teams.
• Prepare organized patient case summaries for review with the psychiatric consultant.
• Participate in scheduled psychiatric case-review meetings, generally lasting approximately 30 minutes.
• Present relevant clinical information, including diagnoses, behavioral symptoms, screening scores, medications, recent changes, treatment response, safety concerns, and barriers to improvement.
• Document psychiatric recommendations accurately and communicate them to the treating provider for review and clinical decision-making.
• Track the implementation and outcome of recommendations and identify patients who may require additional psychiatric review.
• Escalate urgent behavioral health or safety concerns according to established clinical protocols.
• Maintain accurate and current patient information in the CoCM registry and other approved tracking systems.
• Track patient enrollment, outreach, screening results, care-plan updates, psychiatric reviews, provider recommendations, follow-up needs, and patient progress.
• Complete timely, accurate, and compliant documentation of all care-management activities.
• Record time spent performing qualifying CoCM activities in accordance with organizational and billing requirements.
• Ensure documentation supports continuity of care, clinical oversight, quality review, and applicable billing standards.
• Complete assigned patient charts and required psychiatric consultations within established deadlines.
• Follow all CoCM policies, clinical workflows, documentation standards, HIPAA requirements, and organizational procedures.
• Participate in chart audits, education, coaching, competency reviews, and performance-improvement initiatives.
• Correct documentation or workflow deficiencies within required timeframes.
• Maintain professional and timely communication with providers, clinical leadership, psychiatric consultants, facility staff, and other care-team members.
• Meet established expectations for productivity, documentation quality, responsiveness, and patient follow-up.

Skills

LPN license

Medical-record review

Documentation

Patient safety

EMR proficiency

Time management

Team collaboration

HIPAA compliance

Education

Graduate of accredited practical nursing program

Job description

Infinite Medical P.C. is seeking a licensed practical nurse to serve as a Behavioral Health Care Manager within our Collaborative Care Model program.

This is an in-office, non-face-to-face care management role supporting residents in skilled nursing and long-term care facilities. You will perform medical record review, behavioral health screening, care planning, registry management, and care-team collaboration while ensuring compliance with HIPAA and clinical protocols.