Location
Springfield, VA | United States
Job description
- Assesses and plans client care, as needed, using age-appropriate norms and principles of growth and development.
Identifies client needs based on comprehensive assessment.
- Delivers care following physicians’ orders, nursing standards, and Agency policies and procedures.
- Documents care according to regulatory requirements and Agency policies and procedures.
- Participates in employee recruitment and retention activities.
- Evaluates personnel performance in accordance with organizational policies; counsels or corrects as needed; reports progress to Vice President of Clinical Services as appropriate.
- Teaches and assists clinical staff in appropriate case management and utilization of resources and regulatory compliance.
- Conducts educational presentations for clinical staff.
- Encourages clinical staff attendance at educational and work group meetings.
- Acts as role model and mentor for clinical staff.
- Reviews OASIS information to ensure proper assessment and documentation by field staff.
- Reviews clinical staff documentation to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and completeness.
- Makes client visits and accepts on-call responsibilities, as needed.
- Conducts pre- and post-billing reviews of Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial skilled services.
- Knows and adheres to federal, state, and other regulatory agency requirements.CLINICAL COORDINATION:
- Provides overall coordination and case management oversight of the Agency’s clients; ensures clinical staff delivers high-quality services in an efficient and effective method.
Assists with planning and coordinating of care delivery.
- Utilizes Plans of Care (POCs), 485s, OASIS, orders, recertifications, transfers, and discharge planning to identify client needs and assures appropriate care is provided.
- Serves as liaison between client/physician and Agency.
- Assigns field personnel as appropriate and in accordance with caseload review; monitors daily and weekly schedules, matching needs, abilities, and territories to the assignment. Communicates staff assignments and coordination of service delivery to clinical staff and scheduler.
- Assists staff with ordering of medical supplies; monitors judicious use and allocation of needed supplies.
- Assures appropriate triage of clients and planning for potential disasters.
- Monitors staff productivity and coordinates results with VP of Clinical Services to adjust assignments as appropriate.
- Oversees tracking of clinical staff attendance at work, as well as mandatory in-services or meetings, addresses attendance problems.
- Supervises the implementation and outcomes of the physician’s POC.
- Collaborates with clinical staff to monitor client progress, POC revision, ancillary referral needs, and appropriate utilization of services.
- Conducts care conferences to assure interdisciplinary input to addressing client needs in order to obtain positive client outcomes, according to Agency standards.
- Directs or supervises clinical staff to assure that completion of reports and other items is supportive of Agency activities as related to Performance Improvement, Infection Control, etc.
- Performs on-site assessment visits to determine the appropriateness of documented data, including OASIS, compared to client needs and POC; documents deviations in OASIS data and addresses such deviations in Performance Improvement Performance activities.
- Ensures that new clients are contacted periodically to evaluate the quality of services being provided; monitors client satisfaction and needs; implements changes in services provided as needed.
- Participates with staff in discharge planning of clients.
- Assists with obtaining and processing referral information from multiple sources in an accurate and timely manner.
- Reviews referrals to ensure complete information; verify authorization number; clarifies and pursues additional information as needed to establish sufficient data to support the admission process.
- Oversees verification of insurance and/or authorization of care.
- Receives physician orders, processes appropriately, and communicates to clinical staff.
- Review orders and release orders daily.
- Review all OASIS and complete list to be submitted to state.
- Assists with developing and implementing appropriate process improvement plans that address issues related to Performance Improvement, Adverse Events, Case-mix, etc.
· Serves as back-up to VP of Clinical Services and Director of Professional Services, as needed.
- Has graduated from an accredited school of professional nursing; holds a valid Registered Nursing license in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Prefer a Bachelor’s degree in nursing or related field.
- Three years of nursing experience in home health field.
- Two years of supervisory experience preferred.
- Holds valid CPR certification.
- Demonstrates clinical competency and provision of high-quality care to clients.
- Is knowledgeable of home health regulations.
- Exhibits outstanding organization, leadership, communication, and human relations skills.
- Is self-motivated, assertive, and able to make independent decisions.
- Employs critical thinking skills.
- Demonstrates ability to be flexible and to fulfill a broad range of clinical supervision responsibilities.
- Is able to handle multiple priority projects.
· Is able to use computer for word processing, spreadsheet, and data entry applications
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