NP or PA, Skilled Nursing Facilities - Washington and Multnomah

Join Optum's Senior Community Care team and provide meaningful, longitudinal care to medically complex patients in skilled nursing facilities throughout Washington and Multnomah Counties.

As the primary Advanced Practice Clinician for your patient panel,
you make the clinical decisions while being supported by a fully integrated interdisciplinary team. Our value-based model focuses on quality of care, not patient volume or productivity quotas
.

This is a full-time, field-based position providing longitudinal care to patients in various skilled nursing facilities.

• $40,000 Student Loan Repayment OR $30,000 Sign-on Bonus for eligible individuals who have not previously participated in this program
• Competitive base salary plus performance bonus incentives
• $2,500 Relocation Assistance
• No on-call, weekends or holidays required
• 23 days of PTO plus 9 paid holidays
• No productivity quotas or RVU requirements
• Manage your own patient panel and schedule
• Serve as a clinical decision-maker along with collaboration with the PCP for your patients
• Strong interdisciplinary support with clinical autonomy
• Build long-term relationships with patients, caregivers and facility teams

As part of Senior Community Care, you'll care for some of Optum's highest-risk Medicare members, including patients with multiple co-morbidities, advanced disease states and complex treatment needs.

You’ll address the whole patient, including medical, behavioral, functional and social needs, while partnering with caregivers, facility teams and other healthcare professionals to improve outcomes and quality of life.

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments
• Manage acute and chronic conditions, including testing, diagnostics and interventions
• Manage members during a short term sub-acute rehabilitation episode
• Develop and manage complex treatment plans
• Lead advanced illness, goals-of-care and advance care planning conversations
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team, facilities and caregivers
• Provide patient and caregiver education
• Ensure accurate and complete clinical documentation

This opportunity is ideal for NPs and PAs who enjoy critical thinking, clinical independence, complex patient care and ownership of patient outcomes, without sacrificing work-life balance.

Optum Home & Community Care is transforming care delivery by connecting patients with comprehensive, personalized care across settings. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

• For Nurse Practitioners:
  • Graduate of an accredited Master of Science Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice program
  • Active and unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license in the state which you reside, or ability to obtain by start date
  • Board certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or the American Nurses Credentialing Center, with certification in one of the following:
    • Family Nurse Practitioner
    • Adult Nurse Practitioner
    • Gerontology Nurse Practitioner
    • Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• For Physician Assistants:
  • Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant degree program
  • Active and unrestricted Physician Assistant license in the state which you reside, or ability to obtain by start date
  • Board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Current, active DEA licensure/prescriptive authority or ability to obtain post-hire, per state regulations (unless prohibited in state of practice) (SCC
  04)
• Ability to gain a collaborative practice agreement, if applicable in your state
• Ability to complete physical requirements of the job including moving a 30-pound bag in and out of the car, navigating stairs and a variety of dwelling conditions, remain in a stationary position and position self to perform physical assessment
• Driver's license and access to reliable transportation

• 1+ years of clinical experience in practice (long-term care setting preferred)
• Experience in meeting the medical needs of patients with complex behavioral, social and/or functional needs
• Understanding of Geriatrics and Chronic Illness
• Understanding of Advanced Illness and end of life discussions
• Proficient computer skills including the ability to document medical information with written and electronic medical records

Compensation for this specialty…