Optum Long Term Care Nurse Practitioner - Phoenix, Arizona - Full-time / Part-time

Optum Long Term Care Nurse Practitioner - Phoenix, Arizona

What makes your clinical career greater with UnitedHealth Group? 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.

This position provides primary case management of chronic and acute conditions.

Other responsibilities include:

-    Providing direct care to chronically ill residents in long-term care facilities

-    Collaborating with primary care physicians, facility staff and patients' families

-    Coordination of care for patients

-   Participating in care conferences with other providers and patient family members

-   Working with utilization review process for each facility

-    Identifying patients' behavioral health issues

-   Educating nursing home staff, physicians and administration

Requirements:

-    National Nurse Practitioner certification

-    Certification in Adult, Family or Gerontology

-    Licensure in the State where this position is based (Arizona)

-    DEA license

-    Preferred past experience working in a nursing home or with seniors in other settings

-    Intermediate level of proficiency in PC-based word processing including basic -Microsoft Word and Outlook skills

Additional Preferred Assets:

-    Behavioral health experience desirable

-    Clinical experience

-    Long-term care experience

-    Knowledge of mental health issues

-    A background in managed care

-    Familiarity with Medicare and ICD-9 coding

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.