RN Case Manager

TFA Staffing Co.is a full service professional staffing agency.

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2 Positions

Start Date ASAP

Salary - DOE

Location
- Salem, NH

United States Citizenship Required Yes

Security Clearance No

Travel Percent - 0

Relocation Assistance - No

Years Experience - 1

Job Summary:

Through early intervention, the Case Manager will apply the six essential activities of Case Management to assure achievement of an individual's maximum level of wellness. Via appropriate, quality, cost-effective alternative care delivery, the Case Manager will explore community resources and alternative funding in order to maximize health care benefit. The Case Manager will assist an individual to self-direct and self-advocate thus assurance of an informed and empowered healthcare consumer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acts as an advocate and approaches clientele, according to his/her level of wellness, handicap, or injury with alternatives which may improve his/her quality of life.
• Ethically engages in the six essential activities of the Case Management process in order to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate health care delivery.
• Applies six components of case management to each of the five core areas: coordination/service delivery, physical/psychological factors, benefit systems and cost analysis, case management concepts and community resources.
• Practices case management within the full continuum of care encompassing multiple environments.
• Interacts with all healthcare systems and continues involvement with all participants to deal with an individual's broad spectrum of need.
• Applies CMSA standards of practice to an individual's holistic, healthcare , occupational, psychosocial, cultural and financial need.
• Composes confidential, timely, report mechanisms that clearly document goals, objectives, outcomes and cost benefit analysis.
• Acts as a resource to Utilization Review, Behavioral Health, Disability and Case Management team members, committees, clientele and personnel.

Education and/or

Experience:

• RN Degree or Diploma :current NH/PA license, RN licensure within state of case management practice
• 3 years medical, surgical clinical experience: 3-5 years case management or disease management experience.
• Case Management certification Knowledge and skills:
• Excellent written/oral/communication skills.
• Intermediate Word, Excel computer skills.
• Demonstrated success as a case manager with basic Utilization Review skills, Managed Care Software knowledge.
• Knowledge of the insurance industry, benefits coverage and claims processing.
• Ability to apply the six components to the five core areas of the case management process.
• Knowledge of case management principals, clinical guidelines, and CMSA standards.
• Ability to prioritize caseload, combining comprehensive nursing knowledge and skill with cost savings methodology and technique.
• Knowledge of health care providers, alternative funding and community resources; ability to prioritize and utilize them efficiently within the benefit plan.
• In depth knowledge of nursing care plans/skill and ability to facilitate and coordinate transition of patients with catastrophic injuries/illnesses through cost effective, medically appropriate, alternative levels of care.
• Actively serves on an committee.
• Participates in in-service/provider education.
• Maintains membership and activity in a professional affiliation, i.e. Case Management Society of America, Case Management Society of New England, ANA in order to promote professional development within the industry.

Must Haves: 1. RN Degree or Diploma.
2. Current RN licensure.
3. Case Management certification, CCM. 4. Local or within the Region.

Please send resume/CV in word doc format ASAP to ~