Overview
Locations: Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, NY
Are you a dedicated registered nurse looking to make a significant impact in your community? We're urgently seeking Nurse Assessors to join our team! If you are passionate about patient care and have the skills to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!
What We Offer
- Hybrid Work Environment: Enjoy a flexible schedule with a mix of telehealth and in-home patient assessments.
- Impactful Work: Play a crucial role in evaluating and guiding patients to the care they need.
- Comprehensive Training: Orientation and training conducted remotely to set you up for success.
- Compensation: up to $55/hr.
Requirements
- Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program; BSN preferred.
- Required Licensure: Current RN Licensure in New York State.
- Experience: At least 2 years of assessment experience in a home setting.
- Skills: Proficient in health status evaluations, adept with technology, and knowledgeable in nursing practices and state regulations.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multi-generational population.
- Independent, self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Job Responsibilities
- Conduct in-home evaluations to develop personalized long-term care plans.
- Perform initial in-home pre-evaluation of patients that includes evaluation of health status, strengths, care needs, and preferences and guides the development of individualized long-term care service plans.
- Review medical documentation and enter data into the system.
- Review consumer medical documentation and/or health referral forms, as relevant to the case.
- Facilitate communication between care teams and ensure seamless care coordination.
- Identify health promotion opportunities and advocate for preventive care.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of community resources and payor requirements.
- Enter evaluation data into electronic evaluation form and transmit, as required.
- Document any concerns, conflicting information, or other issues that surface during the evaluation process.
- Emphasize continuity of care, reducing or eliminating fragmentation, duplication, and gaps in the treatment plan.
- Discuss with consumer health care options, supports needed, service vendor options and waiver options.
- Initiate communication between the Call Center and eligible consumers for enrollment into a managed care health plan.
- Enhance communication and collaborative relationships with interdisciplinary care team members to improve care coordination and facilitate service delivery.
- Collect quality review data and any required documentation to support outcome measurements and record case notes into the customer relationship manager system.
- Identify opportunities for health promotion and consumer illness prevention.
- Maintain a comprehensive working knowledge of community resources, payor requirements, and network services for the target population.
- Meet all standards established for this position as outlined in the annual performance criteria and bonus template.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Regional Nurse Manager or other project management.
Additional Requirements
- Bilingual Skills: Preferred in languages such as Spanish, Russian, Haitian-Creole, Chinese, or Korean.
- Travel: Must have a valid NY State Driver\'s License or ID and be willing to travel for onsite assessments.
Join us in making a difference in the lives of our patients! Apply now to be part of a supportive team where your expertise is valued, and your work has a direct impact on improving patient care.
Apply Today and Start Making a Difference!
Employment details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Health Care Provider and Administrative
- Industries: Health and Human Services, Hospitals and Health Care, and Individual and Family Services