Location: TN
Salary: Open
Description: Judge Healthcare is currently hiringCare Coordinatorsfor an exciting opportunity with a great Healthcare Company covering Knox, Sevier, and Blount Counties.
We are hiring both Nurses (RN) and Social Workers (LCSW) for this work from home position. You will be responsible for coordinating care for members living in their homes, nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities. Care Coordinators are required to visit members face to face and work remotely to coordinate the member's care.
Mileage to/from member visits will be reimbursed!
-Care Coordinator (CC) is responsible for facilitating, promoting and advocating for the members ongoing self-sufficiency and independence.
-The care coordinator will conduct face-to-face and/or telephonic assessments to assess the members need for support to alleviate functional deficits. This supported self care in their activities of daily living allows the member to remain independently functioning in the community. This affords the member the opportunity for the member to age in place, by improving or maintaining the social, emotional, functional and physical health of the member.
-For members who reside within a nursing facility, the care coordinator is responsible for educating the member on home and community based alternatives, assessing the members potential for and interest in transitioning from nursing facility-to-community. If a member chooses or it is determined that the member is best served in the facility, the care coordinator is responsible for ongoing assessment and care planning to ensure quality of life services to meet any identified gaps in service.
Additionally, the care coordinator is responsible for sustaining the natural supports of the member. This includes but is not limited to assessing support caregivers, representative or family members to ensure the ongoing mental and physical health of those natural supports.
Education:
-Active TN Registered Nurse license
-Active Social Worker licensed to practice in the state of Tennessee. (LBSW, LMSW, LCSW)
Experience:
-Minimum 3-5 years health care experience with 3 years clinical experience required;
-Prefer 3 years experience providing care coordination to persons receiving long-term care and/or home and community based services and an additional 2 years work experience in managed and/or long-term care settings.
Skills/Certification
-Exceptional skills of critical thinking, follow through, independent self-starter, fully integrated team member, organized, written and verbal communication, computer-literate, problem-solving, professional acumen, human relation skills and analytical skills all required;
This job and many more are available through The Judge Group.