Registered Nurse-Care Manager

It's more than a career, it's a calling

WI-SSM Health West Beltline

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:30 PM | No nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call required
Location: SSM Health Wisconsin Regional Office

This role begins onsite during the orientation period and transitions to hybrid (2 in-office, 3 remote days/week) once performance metrics are met and maintained independently. This role will not become fully remote in the future and will remain hybrid.

Experience in health coaching, preventative care, primary care, home health, or care management is preferred but not required. Familiarity with value-based care and motivational interviewing is a plus.

We’re seeking candidates with a strong willingness to learn, adapt to change, and engage in patient outreach. Reliable high-speed internet and a private home workspace are required.

Job Summary:

Utilizes skilled intervention, clinical best practice knowledge and collaboration with the patient, physician and multidisciplinary treatment team to pace care, achieve quality outcomes and negotiate appropriate reimbursement. Ensures the timely and seamless clinical transition of patients through medically appropriate levels of care.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reviews all patients identified for review to determine the medical necessity and appropriateness of enrollment in the care management program.
• Assesses all assigned patients and integrates family information from social work to collaboratively determine potential, actual and the next level of care needed.
• Holds, interprets, and integrates the patient’s story into the overall multidisciplinary plan of care.
• Coordinates and facilitates access to services and patient care progression using best practice interventions that will produce favorable patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with physicians, nursing, social work, and multiple disciplines, departments, payers, and agencies to eliminate barriers to efficient delivery of care in the appropriate setting.
• Actively participates in clinical performance improvement activities as assigned.
• Builds a network of positive working relationships that advocate for the patient.
• Documents clinical activity in the medical record and supports and coaches accurate clinical documentation by physicians and others.
• Pursues continuing education in area of expertise/leadership.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing

EXPERIENCE

• Two years' registered nurse experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 

 
State of Work Location: Illinois 

• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) 

State of Work Location: Missouri 

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
• Or 
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration 

 
State of Work Location: Oklahoma 

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
• Or 
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN) 

State of Work Location: Wisconsin 

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
• Or 
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. 

SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status , or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more.