Team Lead - Home Health RN

BJC HealthCare (New); Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage reimbursement for community旅行

Hybrid opportunity

Benefit eligible

Job summary

BJC Home Care is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to coordinate and deliver direct patient care in a hybrid home-health setting. This role requires planning and leading complex care plans, collaborating with an interprofessional team, and ensuring safe patient outcomes across hospital discharge and ambulatory care.

Ideal candidates hold a Nursing Diploma/Associate’s degree (Bachelor’s preferred) with 2–5 years in home health.

Qualifications

• Nursing diploma or associate degree required.
• 2-5 years of nursing experience in home health preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates identification and resolution of gaps in care from hospitalization, at discharge, and into the ambulatory care setting.
• Leads development and implementation of complex plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with the interprofessional team and patient/family.
• Promotes evidence‑based practices and supports ongoing nursing education and practice improvements.
• Evaluates patient and family experience and adjusts care to improve satisfaction and outcomes.
• Performs other responsibilities as assigned.

Education

Nursing Diploma/Associate's-Nursing

Bachelor's Degree-Nursing

Job description

Additional Information About the Role

Full time – 40 hours

Benefit Eligible

Monday through Friday

Typical Hours - 7:30 am to 4 pm OR 8 am to 4:30 pm

Flexible to rotation needs for on call, weekends, and holidays

Prior experience in Home Health is required!

Mileage Reimbursement for community travel

Hybrid Opportunity

Overview

BJC Home Care offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.

BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.

The Metro St. Louis Intermittent Home Care Department of BJC Home Care Services provides home visits to patients in the metropolitan St. Louis area and several nearby counties, with 24 hour on-call home care nursing supervision. Our JCAHO accredited, multi-disciplinary approach combines leading edge technology with a firm belief in the powerful recuperative advantages of receiving home care.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Under the direction of manager, plans, directs, and coordinates activities of a unit on a designated shift. Performs direct patient care as needed and functions as clinical resource to nursing and support staff. Assesses, plans, evaluates and documents the nursing process of assigned unit as needed.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates identification and resolution of gaps in care from hospitalization, at discharge, and into the ambulatory care setting. Critically assess patient data to proactively mitigate impending changes in condition and establishes consults to interprofessional team as appropriate.
• Leads the development and implementation of complex individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and the patient, family, or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Plan of care reflects application of expert holistic clinical knowledge and skill to anticipate and prioritize complex care needs, anticipate barriers, incorporating interprofessional team and caregiver/family input, and identifies opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
• Actively utilizes and champions scientific inquiry for evidence‑based practices (e.g., participates in journal club, facilitates practice change based on new knowledge, recommends new standards of care or revisions to current standards, conduct a literature search to support unit or organizational goals, disseminate new knowledge obtained from relevant conference or continuing education). Explore opportunities to advance nursing practice (e.g., support a community service health event as a representative of the healthcare profession, patient/family education group, community advisory board, member of Ethics Advisory Committee, serve as adjunct faculty, leadership board in specialty organization).
• Analyzes gap in practice standards and provides feedback to peers in collaboration with leadership to enhance safe patient care. Leads the evaluation of the patient and family experience, and adjusts care provided to improve patient satisfaction and quality of care.
• BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.
• Performs Other Responsibilities as Assigned.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's-Nursing

Experience

• 2-5 years

Licenses & Certifications

• Valid Driver's License
• Registered Nurse (RN)

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree-Nursing

Experience

• 5-10 years

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer