RN - Clinical Field Staff Supervisor (Office Based) - Clinton Co.

Role and Responsibilities

The Clinical Field Staff Supervisor (CFSS) is an integral part of the patient care team and continually monitors the services provided. This role has shared responsibility for the overall provision and coordination of home health services provided to the HCR patients, according to acceptable standards of practice. The CFSS is a resource person with extensive knowledge of the regulatory guidelines governing home health agencies and provides daily support to field clinicians, enabling them to provide quality care in the home to HCR patients. The CFSS is a liaison between referral resources, patients, caregivers, and employees.

Essential Functions

• Receive calls from field staff and physicians regarding client care issues/orders. Enter orders as appropriate and update the plan of care, medication profile and schedule. Enter information regarding all telephone calls into the coordination notes section of the computer software. Notify staff, as appropriate, to ensure proper coordination of care.
• Review and approve all interim orders before they are sent to physician. Notify Clinical Manager when unable to approve the order.
• Provide support to the Intake staff and process referral requests in HCHB as needed. In branch offices, processing referrals is a shared responsibility of the PSC and CFSS roles.
• Assign Licensed Professional (LP) to conduct the evaluation visit as the task appears on the action screen
• Participate in case conferences, as needed, and process recert/discharge decisions based on clinical documentation and input from case manager, based on case orders for tracking purposes and route to Medical Records to be sent to the physician for signature. Ensure any corrections are made by the LP who wrote the order prior to entering the order. Update the client’s medication profile and schedule as applicable; via the order. Ensure all orders that address frequency have appropriate calendar modification completed.
• Follow-up on orders from the Order Tracking Report when the MRS is unable to retrieve the unsigned order.
• Review and follow-up on entitlement verification issues.
• Verify/Ensure there are orders for requested medical supplies, enter supply orders and requisition supplies as needed.
• Enter non-admit information into HCHB, with details in coordination notes if no visit was made.
• Review missed visit reports, ensure MD notification has occurred, and if not, notify MD.
• Other duties as assigned.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; and nothing in this herein restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.