Nurse Care Manager

Nurse Care Manager

Located in Mansfield/ Dayville, Connecticut

United Services, Inc. requires all employees to be vaccinated against influenza annually during flu season and against Covid- 19 prior to start date.

Description:
Full-time opening available in Dayville/Mansfield for a Nursing Professional (RN/LPN) to perform initial health assessments. Develop and coordinate care plans including referring to and coordinating with enrollee’s medical and behavioral health providers. Provide transitional coordination upon discharge from higher levels of care. Provide health education, wellness promotion and prevention initiatives. Provide support and education to clients and families. Provide consultation and training to non-medical staff. Monitor health information tools and reports for treatment, medication alerts and hospital admissions/discharges.

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. This position has paid holidays off and no on-call coverage.

Seeking applicant to staff the Behavioral Health Home program. The Behavioral Health Home (BHH) is intended to integrate behavioral health care with medical care for adults with serious mental health issues who also have serious and chronic health conditions. Through an array of services the goal is to increase access to care, improve the experience of care, and to reduce unnecessary emergency and inpatient care while improving health outcomes.

Requirements: Current Registered Nurse (RN) / Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license. Able to maintain and renew licensure as RN/LPN in the state of Connecticut.

Salary Range: Competitive Salary

Benefits

· 4 weeks of vacation

· 12 holidays

· Paid sick time

· Very generous comprehensive benefit package for health, dental, life and disability insurance for individual and family coverage.

· Training and tuition reimbursement & eligibility for National Health Service Corps loan repayment and scholarships

· Pre-tax medical and dependent care plans

· 403B Retirement Plan with an employer contribution after one year

United Services Inc. — Join Our Team!

Do you want to make a direct impact in the lives of children, families and adults with social and behavioral health needs? If you have the skills, the commitment and the passion, we have the opportunity.

United Services is among Connecticut’s most comprehensive private, non-profit providers of behavioral health, psychosocial, chemical abuse, primary care, care coordination, wellness and prevention services to the community, and employee assistance program services for business and industry. Our primary service area is the 21 towns in northeastern Connecticut. With more than 30 programs, 12 service locations, and a dedicated staff of over 250 professionals, we are proud to continue growing in our mission of “Creating Healthy Communities” by providing top-notch, caring mental health and social services to the children, adults, families and communities of Northeastern Connecticut.

Our offices are located in small town and rural settings throughout Connecticut’s “Quiet Corner” within easy commuting distance from New London, CT, Worcester, MA and Providence, RI. Our three main office locations are in Mansfield Center, Dayville and Wauregan. Our staff includes psychiatrists, clinicians, social workers, psychologists, prevention specialists, case managers, advocates, and administrative and support personnel.

Please consider joining our United Services team! For more information please visit http://www.unitedservicesct.org/careers/

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United Services is an Affirmative Action Employer EEO/M/F/D/V.

Job Requirements:

• Delivering outreach and care management services to chronic care patients
• Partnering care providers to coordinate care and further develop partnerships
• Improve the care management program
• Ensure coordinated patient centered care
• Provide care coordination for members
• Develop care plans, collaborate with physicians and other health care professionals in implementing and maintaining care plan
• Manage the course of care, care plans and all communications in the EMR
• Travel through the continuum of care
• Addressing patient care and community needs
• Track care coordinator visits to members
• Assist with linkage to care coordination
• Make recommendations for alternative medical care for approval by the primary care physician
• Carry out the plan of care
• Demonstrate health care informatics competency in order to manage patient care, outcome data and current and emerging health care technology
• Optimizing communication among care providers, promoting seamless transitions between care settings and facilitating the appropriate use of health care resources
• Providing care coordination to patients during transition from acute care to the next level of care in the continuum
• Work in collaboration with the primary care physician, staff and the patient to ensure care coordination occur across the continuum of care
• Attend inpatient family meetings and care conferences when necessary to integrate inpatient care with patients’ longitudinal, intra-disciplinary care plans
• Promote communication and collaboration to keep all care team care members informed of patients’care needs and to ensure that patients access and benefit maximally from available health care resources
• Trigger a review of the care plan