Registered Nurse -Care Manager

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.

8:00am – 4:30pm, Monday – Friday. Hybrid work arrangement is available after the initial orientation period of approximately three months, subject to meeting productivity expectations. Hybrid work arrangement is not available at the start of employment in this role.

• 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 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.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or educational equivalency for licensing.
• Two years’ registered nurse experience.

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0–25lbs.
• 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) 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 25–50lbs.
• Rare climbing.

• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) – Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR).
• Registered Nurse (RN) – Missouri Division of Professional Registration (compact state).
• Registered Nurse (RN) – Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN) (compact state).
• Registered Nurse (RN) – Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (compact state).

• Comprehensive benefits package tailored to employee needs.
• Paid parental leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro‑rated based on FTE).
• Flexible payment options through Daily Pay for eligible hourly team members, allowing instant access to earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront tuition coverage through Flex Path 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.