Job Description:
Job Title: Nurse Care Manager - Healthcare Home
Location: Springfield, MO
Department: Healthcare Home
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary:
Are you a caring and proactive Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) eager to make a tangible difference in the lives of individuals battling complex medical conditions alongside mental health and substance use disorders? Search no more!
Join our dynamic Healthcare Home team as a Nurse Care Manager and leverage your deep understanding of chronic disease processes in children and adults. Empower patients with health education, consult with community support specialists, manage hospital admissions and discharge processes, and guide patients through diagnoses, treatments, and medications.
Position Perks & Benefits:
• $5,000 Sign-On Bonus
• Paid time off - 29 days per year including vacation & holiday pay
• Mileage reimbursement - company paid for work functions requiring travel
• Top-notch training - initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive
• Career mobility - advancement opportunities/promoting from within
• Welcoming, warm, supportive - a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness
Key Responsibilities:
•Develop wellness and preventive initiatives.
•Spearhead health education classes, tapping into profound insights on complex medical conditions.
•Contribute to the preliminary treatment scheme creation for all Healthcare Home participants.
•Team up with professionals to design a targeted treatment strategy comprising healthcare objectives for individuals afflicted by dual chronic diseases.
•Advise Community Support Specialists on patient-identified health complications.
•Streamline hospital and medical facility admission and discharge proceedings for Healthcare Home beneficiaries.
•Coach patients on complex health conditions, discussing medical diagnoses, therapies, and prescriptions.
•Execute DMH Net Health technology projects and endeavors, such as CyberAccess and metabolic screening.
•Track and relay performance metrics and triumphs using refined information systems engineered for nurses.
Education and/or Experience Qualifications:
•Active RN or LPN license
•Experience in direct patient care recommended
Additional Qualifications:
•Deep understanding of acute and persistent medical conditions affecting children and adults
•Outstanding written and spoken communication prowess
•Agility in accepting and applying novel, creative systems
•Decision-making capabilities founded on critical thinking and nursing procedure
Brightli is on a Mission:
A mission to improve client care, reduce the financial burden of community mental health centers by sharing resources, a mission to have a larger voice in advocacy to increase access to mental health and substance use care in our communities, and a mission to evolve the behavioral health industry to better meet the needs of our clients.
As a behavioral and community mental health provider, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workforce and encourage applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. If you are passionate about empowering your local communities and promoting health equity, we invite you to join our mission-driven organization that is committed to building a diverse, equitable, inclusive and authentic workplace.
We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability or veteran status, or to other non-work related factors.
Burrell is a Smoke and Tobacco Free Workplace.