Pediatric Case Manager - BCH Oakland

UCSF Health; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF Health in Oakland seeks a Pediatric Nurse Case Manager to coordinate resources, perform utilization review, and oversee complex discharge planning for a designated caseload.

You will be a key member of the interdisciplinary team, providing age-appropriate assessments, data interpretation, and intervention delivery while collaborating across departments to support patient care and program quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in healthcare field.
• Strong written and verbal communication, diplomacy, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work with interdisciplinary teams in high-volume setting.
• Flexibility to rotate through UCSF Medical Center locations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates resources and services to meet patient needs within fiscal realities.
• Performs utilization review and oversees complex discharge planning.
• Acts as consultant to clinical teams and participates in program development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Delivers age-appropriate assessments and interventions; participates in quality improvement initiatives.

Education

Bachelor0s Degree in a Healthcare related field

Tools

Basic computer skills

Job description

Job Description

The Pediatric Nurse Case Manager coordinates resources and services in response to individual patient’s needs and fiscal realities, performs utilization review activities and oversees coordination of complex discharge planning for assigned case load. The Nurse Case Manager is an active member of the interdisciplinary team contributing to team goal setting. The Nurse Case manager acts as a consultant to the clinical team, service lines and other departments and participates in program development and quality improvement initiatives. The Nurse Case Manager provides age-appropriate assessments, interpretation of data, and delivery of interventions. Demonstrates the ability to work with any patient regardless of race, gender, religious affiliation, cultural beliefs, lifestyle, and disease process or treatment plan.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Possesses a Bachelor’s Degree in a Healthcare related field
• Knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
• Demonstrates resourcefulness, superior written and oral communication, diplomacy, organizational and analytic skills.
• Self-directed, assertive and creative in problem solving, systems planning and patient care management in a high volume work environment.
• Basic computer skills
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
• This position requires flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience in case management, utilization review or discharge planning preferred
• Master’s Degree in Nursing or Healthcare related field preferred

Required Licenses/Certifications

• California Registered Nurse License