Licensed Vocational Nurse, Arleta, CA

Licensed Vocational Nurse / Medical Coordinator

Reports To: Licensed Vocational Nurse Manager

Location: Arleta, CA

Classification: Non-Exempt, Full-Time

Hourly Rate: $28.85 - $31.25

Schedules Available:

• Tuesday-Saturday, 9:00AM - 5:30PM
• Sunday-Thursday, 11:00AM - 7:30PM

Medical Coordinator/LVN

The Medical Coordinator works in our Recuperative Care Program to provide post-hospital care, while creating a healthy, safe, and home like environment for guest quality of life. Medical Coordinators have excellent bedside manners, are team players and have a "whatever it takes" attitude. The Recuperative Care Program provides quality and compassionate care and empowers those we serve.

Responsibilities and Initiatives

• Facilitate hospital discharge process and patient assessment/engagement to program.
• Performing medical assessment intake and discharge plan of care.
• Maintaining current guest chart via existing CRM database daily.
• Conducting medical/wellness checks, medication regimen education, preventative measures and medical insurance follow up.
• Coordinating and providing linkages for guest's medical appointments and follow-up.
• Collaborate with Intake to ensure appropriate eligible to recuperative services and admission of required DMEs and Home Health needs.
• Participating in weekly internal and external case conferencing, board review team meetings, monthly staff meetings, trainings, and in-services.
• Provide advocacy on guest behalf when needed and in tandem with LVN manager instructions.
• Ability to adequately manage caseload of a minimum 15 guests with flexibility to manage more to meet the needs of the facility (i.e., vacancies, PTO etc.)
• Tracking and completing guest information on existing database specific to progress and plan of care.
• Must adhere to administrative hours to complete all required documentation.
• Project a positive professional image and adhere to organizational dress code.
• Must be flexible to accommodate schedule changes to meet the needs of the facility.
• Performing administrative tasks such as charting, guest summaries and answering phones.
• Complete additional tasks/duties as required to meet the needs of the facility, not to impede primary responsibilities.
• Always follow NHF policies and procedures.

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