Lead Care Coordinator - Gastroenterology

30 Oct 2024

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Works collaboratively with multidisciplinary care team staff across the continuum of care to provide care and disease management to high risk patients. Focuses efforts on patient outreach and coordination of care to achieve optimal outcomes and promote wellness, decreasing preventable ED visits and readmissions while improving patient satisfaction.Clinical leader providing oversight in assigned region of employees and patients to ensure quality and safety in care delivery. Partners with the leadership team in program development, productivity review, and process improvement initiatives. Works collaboratively with multidisciplinary care team staff across the continuum of care. Focuses efforts on evaluating patient outreach efforts and quality of care coordination by clinical staff.Responsibilities:Performs duties of Care Coordinator.

Works as part of an interdisciplinary care team.

Assists in providing clinical oversight of employees and patients to ensure quality and safety.

Coordinates and resolves daily operational issues to include daily staffing needs.

Facilitates onboarding, teaching, coaching and mentoring of Care Coordinators.

Participates in routine check-ins with staff in assigned region.

Provides feedback to Nurse Manager for Annual Performance Reviews (APR).

Assists in the preparation and delivery of the department specific education to staff.

Participates in quality initiatives, process improvement, and research activities to improve patient outcomes, patient experience, and patient safety.

Ensures compliance with regulatory standards and patient safety initiatives.

Other duties as assigned.

Education:Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing required.

Certifications:Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) required.

Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).

Ambulatory specific certification preferred.

Complexity of Work:Professional behavior / appearance required, ability to focus on patient safety, teamwork, patient outcomes, patient experience, and quality improvement.

Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.

Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Work Experience:Minimum two years’ experience as a Care Coordinator.

Physical Requirements:Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.

May require some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.

Light work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.

Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment/affirmative action employer: Women/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Full-time
  • ID: #21926682
  • State: Ohio Cleveland 44101 Cleveland USA
  • City: Cleveland
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Showed: 2021-10-30
  • Deadline: 2021-12-28
  • Category: Et cetera