Weekend Home Health RN: Caring, Collaborative Care Leader

Optum; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group, through its Optum family, is seeking a Weekend Registered Nurse in Home Health to deliver and coordinate nursing care in patients' homes in compliance with laws and agency policy. The role involves planning the care, supervising home health aides, and performing supervisory visits.

Responsibilities include completing OASIS assessments, documenting visits per policy, and ensuring high-quality care while collaborating with physicians and care teams.

Qualifications

• Current and unrestricted RN licensure in state of practice.
• Current Driver's License, vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation.
• CPR certification or ability to complete within 90 days of hire (preferred).
• Ability to work independently
• Solid communication, writing, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Initiates, develops, implements, and revises the plan of care in collaboration with the physician and other health care professionals.
• Supervises care provided by home health aides and licensed practical/vocational nurses, provides instruction, and assigns tasks according to State and federal regulations.
• Provides required supervisory visits.
• Completes comprehensive assessments (OASIS) including medication reconciliation accurately and timely.
• Documents patient visits per policy and payer requirements, and syncs timely per LHC policy.
• Makes initial and/or comprehensive nursing evaluation visits, ensures patients meet home health eligibility and medical necessity guidelines, determines primary focus of care, and submits accurate documentation.
• Communicates relevant information timely and effectively with appropriate agency staff, including patient care issues, visit assignments, schedule changes, orders, OASIS data sets, coding requests, and coordination with other clinicians.
• Communicates timely and effectively with physicians, patients, and family members to ensure quality care and service excellence.
• Takes direction from Clinical Director and Executive Director professionally and completes assigned tasks timely, including required learning.
• Assists in the orientation of new agency personnel and serves as a preceptor to other staff and students.
• Participates in survey/survey readiness activities and performance improvement plans, works to reduce unnecessary patient hospitalizations, improve patient safety, and implements processes and best practices to ensure positive patient outcomes.
• Participates in on-call and weekend rotation as needed to meet patient needs.
• Adheres to and participates in the agency's utilization management model.

Skills

Clinical nursing

Communication

Documentation

Time management

Education

RN licensure (unrestricted)

Tools

OASIS documentation

Job description

UnitedHealth Group, through its Optum family, is seeking a Weekend Registered Nurse in Home Health to deliver and coordinate nursing care in patients' homes in compliance with laws and agency policy. The role involves planning the care, supervising home health aides, and performing supervisory visits.

Responsibilities include completing OASIS assessments, documenting visits per policy, and ensuring high-quality care while collaborating with physicians and care teams.