Nurse Care Manager - General Medicine & Geriatrics

Nurse Care Manager

The Nurse Care Manager provides expert care coordination within a dynamic, multi-site outpatient environment, moving away from bedside burnout into a relationship-based model that prioritizes long-term patient impact. Schedule: MondayFriday | 8:00 am 4:30 pm. Work life balance: No weekends, no holidays, and no on-call. Variety: A hybrid rotation across our premier CAM, West County, and Sunset Hills clinics. The Nurse Care Manager acts as a clinical anchor by coordinating high-risk interventions, bridging care transitions, and fostering provider-patient partnerships to resolve health hurdles and improve patient quality of life.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for medically and socially complex patients and their caregivers.
• Coordinate care across primary care, specialty clinics, home health, rehabilitation facilities, and community partners.
• Facilitate transitions of care (hospital ? home, rehab ? outpatient, assisted living, long-term care, hospice).
• Monitor chronic disease management (e.g., dementia, frailty, CHF, COPD, diabetes) and identify early signs of decompensation.
• Review and triage incoming clinical messages and calls related to care coordination, patient needs or concerns requiring follow-up.
• Conduct routine check-ins in all clinic locations to support providers, staff, and patients, ensuring timely response to questions and identification of emerging patient needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse in the state of Missouri or Illinois.
• Basic Life Support certification (Online BLS certifications, those without a skills assessment component, are not sufficient to meet the BLS requirements).

Salary Range: $60,800.00 - $105,700.00 / Annually

The salary range reflects base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade across the University. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions within the same grade and department budget.

Benefits Statement:

• Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.
• Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.
• Take advantage of our free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees.
• WashU provides eligible employees with a defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%.
• Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!
• We offer 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child. Family care resources are also available for your continued childcare needs. Need adult care? We've got you covered.
• WashU covers the cost of tuition for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.

EEO Statement:

Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity. It is the University's policy to provide equal opportunity and access to persons in all job titles without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, citizenship (where prohibited by federal law), age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

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