Full Time Complex Care Nurse Practitioner for OptumHealth - Kansas City, KS/MO - Full-time / Part-time

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OptumHealth is part of UnitedHealthcare. OptumHealth Practitioners conduct assessments in our nursing homes.  We are looking for a Full Time Nurse Practitioner to complete regulatory and acute care visits in nursing homes.
                                                                                   
Imagine joining a group of professionals and clinicians who are working to improve health care for people over 50. Consider the influence you can have on the quality of care for millions of people. Now, enhance that success with enthusiasm you can really feel.

That's how it is at UnitedHealthcare. Every day, we're collaborating to improve the health and well being of the fastest growing segment of our nation's population. And we're doing it with an intense amount of dedication.
                                                                                       
Here, you will discover a culture that grows through challenge. That evolves by being flexible. That succeeds by staying true to our mission to make health care work effectively and efficiently for seniors. Put your best to work for us, and discover extraordinary opportunities for growth.
 
Key Responsibilities

Perform acute and regulatory visits for long term care nursing home residents.

Preferred: Experience working with chronically ill, long term care Medicare patients. Experience with advance care planning.

Providing preventive and primary care for patients in assigned long term care facilities.
Working with primary care physicians to provide the best care possible.
Collaborating with the nursing staff and the patients' families.
Working with the facility's utilization review process.
This position requires ACHA level II background checks (fingerprinting) by the state of FL for all clinicians that have face to face contact with members and will require renewal every five years.
 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Required Education and Experience:

NP or PA (license and national certification, or the ability to obtain national certification and/or NP license in state of assignment)
Minimum of 1 year of clinical experience in their highest level of education, clinical setting preferred.

Prefer Geriatric and/or Psychiatric background
Prefer experience in acute care, long term care, and /or palliative care experience working with complex, geriatric residents in long term care facilities.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:                                
Ability to obtain reliable transportation in order to complete nursing home visit assessments
Excellent administrative, organizational and verbal skills are required.
Professional image and behavior are required.
Strong communication skills with the geriatric or Medicare population.
Ability to navigate on the internet and work with personal computer.
Ability to work independently.
Detail oriented.
Dependable and reliable.
Intermediate level of proficiency in PC-based word processing including basic Microsoft Word and Outlook skills
                                                                                            
UnitedHealth Group is working to create the health care system of tomorrow.

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Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.

Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.