Optum CarePlus at Home Nurse Practitioner Supervisor - Nashville, TN

Improve Your Quality of Life While Helping Others! 

Join our exceptional Optum CarePlus at Home team! As an Optum CarePlus at Home Nurse Practitioner Supervisor will lead and manage a team of Optum CarePlus at Home Practitioners within a specified geographic area.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to traveling with the practitioners to conduct performance evaluations on in-home health assessments on enrolled members.  In addition, the Optum CarePlus at Home Nurse Practitioner Supervisor is accountable for monitoring team productivity, maintaining team metrics and performing quality improvement monitoring. This excellent opportunity affords a flexible autonomous role bringing enormous satisfaction in the care and comfort of a vulnerable population.  Additionally, you will build meaningful relationships with the members and their families. 

The CarePlus at Home Nurse Practitioners will develop risk management plans, provide maintenance care and acute interventions within scope, and provide documentation and patient education.

The Nurse Practitioners will ensure that all pertinent and active medical conditions are documented in the medical record in a manner compliant with CMS, OPTUM and client requirements. 

Responsibilities

• Participating in all responsibilities of the management team including planning, goal setting, training, and metric management 


• Ensuring staff receives appropriate orientation, training, and ongoing professional development


• Providing mentoring and support for Practitioners


• Identifying issues and providing guidance to team members for problem solving or crisis management


• Assuring performance adheres with established quality standards, evidenced based practice guidelines and departmental benchmarks and workflows


• Leading day to day collaborative efforts of practitioners in order to attain the highest level of clinical care


• Coaching, developing and overall performance management for each team member


• Performing  face to face evaluations as per defined guidelines


• Ensuring consistency in service delivery by the entire team to comply with established clinical initiatives


• Evaluating and communicating overall team performance to the Regional Manager


• Providing management and oversight of quality assurance initiatives


• Participate and travel to required  Management meetings as needed

Requirements

·         Active, un-encumbered license to practice nursing in the state of assignment or ability to obtain

·         Nurse Practitioner Certification from either the ANCC or AANP or ability to obtain.

·         Geriatric or adult medicine specialty a plus.

·         Minimum of 5 years Nurse Practitioner experience required

·         Minimum of 3 years of relevant clinical supervisory/management experience

·         Must be able to effectively communicate with elderly and chronically ill patients and families.

·         Understanding of Medicare, Medicaid and Health Plan benefit structures beneficial.

·         Comfortable working independently in a home-visit setting.

·         Intermediate knowledge of computers, electronic health records, and smart phones.

·         Familiarity with ICD-9 and CPT-4 coding.

·         Bi-lingual or multi-lingual a plus.

·         BCLS

·         Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.

·         DEA License or the ability to obtain.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within a healthcare delivery or health plan/insurance setting


• Demonstrated excellence in business operations/development


• Demonstrated excellence in financial management and oversight


• Strong management/team building and motivational skills


• Superior communication skills

CarePlus at Home is now part of the Optum division under the greater UnitedHealth Group umbrella.