Registered Nurse

Work Location: Region 5 - St. Petersburg ideally Assignment Duration: 3 Months Contract to Hire Work Schedule: M-F 8am – 5pm Work Arrangement: Hybrid Position Summary: This position will be with the Enhanced Care Coordination team for Children’s Medical Services plan within our organization. This team serves medically fragile children aged through 21 years. Specifically, this team primary serves members with private duty nursing services in the home. Background & Context: While the team serves members throughout the entire state of FL, we are very close-knit and collaborative. We communicate with one another frequently, sharing resources and supporting one another daily. Leadership is highly engaged and approachable. We are a very positive, family-centered team. We pride ourselves on excellence and hold all staff highly accountable for exceptional quality of their work, time management, and documentation. Leadership and peers alike support one another to promote teamwide success. Key Responsibilities: Day-to-day: Making calls to parents of members to collect annual assessments, monthly required update call, a monthly face-to-face visit and if visit declined a second monthly call or a virtual visit replaces it. Calling DME companies and providers if a parent reports a problem. Managing difficult parents at times, responses to escalations and/or complaints as needed. Monthly regulatory reporting compiling updates obtained on each member of their caseload. Overall expectations: Requires good communication skills, self-motivation and time management, and EXCELLENT documentation. Metrics include completion of all required calls/contacts/visits or calls in place of visits, collection of assessments on time, compile monthly information regarding member status that is required by end of month. Zoom calls or a phone call with the PDN agency every 6 months to review the care plan agency has provided. This role is a unique opportunity to due to the primarily work-from-home environment. Care managers have flexibility and autonomy, which make the role appealing. We have approachable and supportive leadership. The candidates are highly supported by the other teammates as well. Qualification & Experience: Education/Certification Required: ASN Preferred: BSN Licensure Required: RN Preferred: N/A Years of experience required: 2 years of pediatric experience is required per contract. Disqualifiers: Poor documentation, poor time management skills, lack of technology experience, not enough pediatric experience as an RN in the clinical or home care setting. 2 years continuous pediatrics is key to truly understanding this population. Additional qualities to look for: Nurses that have worked in ICU for pediatrics/NICU or pediatric home health do well in this position. Prior case management or managed care experience is helpful but not required. At least a basic understanding of Microsoft programming (Outlook, Word, Excel) is essential. Top 3 must-have hard skills stack-ranked by importance 1 2 years of pediatric experience required. #J-18808-Ljbffr