Bilingual Nurse Practitioner - Long Term Care - Miami, FL - Full-time / Part-time

Improve Your Quality of Life While Helping Seniors!  
 
Serving millions of Medicare and Medicaid patients, Optum is the nation's largest health and wellness business and a vibrant, growing member of the UnitedHealth Group family.  We're also the career home for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day.
 
In this role, you will provide primary care in Skilled Nursing Facilities to both long term and rehab patients, as well as transitions for sub-acute care. You will be responsible for the delivery of medical care services to a pre-designated group of enrollees.
 

Listen to our NPs describe their work in Complex Care:  
 
Get better informed to determine your fit into this position. Click here to view the Realistic Job Preview:
 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Primary Care Delivery
  
• Deliver cost-effective, quality care to assigned members
  
• Manage both medical and behavioral chronic and acute conditions effectively in collaboration with a physician or specialty provider
  
• Perform comprehensive assessments and document findings in a concise/comprehensive manner that is compliant with documentation requirements and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations
  
• Ensure all diagnoses are ICD9/ICD10 coded accurately and documented appropriately to support the diagnosis at that visit
  
• Ensure all quality elements are addressed and documented
  
• Complete the initial medication review, annual medication review and a post-hospitalization medication reconciliation
  
• Facilitate agreement and implementation of the member's plan of care by engaging the facility staff, families/responsible parties, primary and specialty care physicians
  
• Evaluate the effectiveness, necessity and efficiency of the plan, making revisions as needed
  
• Utilizes practice guidelines and protocols established by CPM
  
• May be required to participate in on-call program
  
• Travel between care sites mandatory
  
• After hour on call coverage may be required

Required Qualifications:

• Current, unrestricted NP or PA license in Florida
  
• Nurse Practitioner national certification as ANP, FNP, or GNP required
  
• A clinical background in adult, family or geriatric specialties 
  
• Past experience working in a nursing home or with seniors in other settings desired 
  
• Intermediate level of proficiency in PC based word processing including Microsoft Word, Outlook and EMR

Optum Complex Care 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 Optum 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 Optum, 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: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: NP, Nurse Practitioner, Geriatric, Optum, Palm Beach, FL, Florida, West Palm Beach, Medicare, Medicaid