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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Seattle, WA
Seattle, Washington

About this job

Improve Your Quality of Life While Helping Seniors! 

 

Per diem position providing vacation and medical leave coverage for our  clinical team.

Join our exceptional Optum CarePlus team.  As an Optum CarePlus Nurse Practitioner (NP) you will provide primary care to your caseload of patients in long term care settings. This excellent opportunity affords a flexible autonomous role bringing enormous satisfaction in the care and comfort of our aging population.  Additionally, you will build meaningful relationships with the residents and their families. 

 

What's it like working for Optum CarePlus? 

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Key responsibilities of the NP include:


  • Providing preventative 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

  • An opportunity to learn palliative care is offered at Optum CarePlus

  • Working with the facility's utilization review process

What makes your clinical career greater with Optum CarePlus?  You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care system. You can work with in an incredible team culture; a clinical and business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day. And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere.

 

Requirements

Requirements



  • Current, unrestricted NP license in the state where this position is located

  • DEA License

  • Nurse Practitioner national certification as ANP, FNP or GNP required

  • A clinical background in adult, family or geriatric specialties

  • Past experience working with seniors in a nursing home or other setting

  • Intermediate level of proficiency in PC based word processing including Microsoft Word and Outlook

 

Optum CarePlus is now part of the OptumHealth division under the greater UnitedHealth Group umbrella.  OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.  If you want more meaning in your career - as a clinician or a business professional - think of OptumHealth as your calling.

By providing 58 million Americans with information, tools and solutions, we are helping to guide them through the health care system, financing their health care needs, and enabling them to achieve their personal health and well-being goals.

At OptumHealth, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.