Registered Nurse - Community Care Coordinator

Job Title

Clinical Nurse Coordinator

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to the management of complex patient care referrals.
• Care will be provided in the least restrictive, most cost-effective manner, through use of outpatient utilization management criteria, clinical practice guidelines, clinical pathways and developed triage tools.
• Assist with significant collaboration between community and VISN healthcare personnel in the transition of veterans through the VA Healthcare system.
• Clinical Nurse Coordinator will provide quality and performance analysis and report on consult trends and systems issues through the utilization of the nursing process.
• Clinical Nurse Coordinator is responsible for the triage and care coordination of complex patients, works closely with Veterans to ensure smooth transition of care to community or VA facilities and care related to referrals, improvement meetings and service meetings.
• Communicates with Veterans their health care options including local VA, other VA Medical Centers and the community based on eligibility criteria for community care per the National Directives.
• Clinical Nurse Coordinator processes all indicated referrals ensuring necessary pre-consult testing, labs, imaging and clinical records associated with the referral are reviewed and documented.
• Clinical Nurse Coordinator will provide support to providers daily: coordinating dual care with community and other VA facilities.
• Clinical Nurse Coordinator will work closely with Medical Support Assistants during the referral coordination process, ensuring Veterans are scheduled for care timely. Works closely with VA Medical Centers, contracted facilities and community facilities to remove obstacles that would impede the Veteran from utilizing all available services they are eligible to use.
• Assist in the development/expansion of local referral coordination teams at each VISN facility, as directed by supervisor.

Total Rewards

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized