RN Hospice Clinical Manager

Hospice Clinical Manager | Friday-Monday, Remote weekends

Explore opportunities with Amedisys Hospice, part of the Optum family of businesses. We provide home health, hospice and community-based services that help people receive quality care where they feel most comfortable: ted in personalized care, we support patients and provide comfort through each stage of their health journey, while building trusted relationships along the way. Find a home for your career here.

Join us and embrace a culture of Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Hospice RN Clinical Manager provides leadership, supervision, and coordination of therapy services to ensure high-quality, compliant, and cost-effective patient care, while maintaining fiscal responsibility, facilitating patient care communication, and supporting referrals, scheduling, patient visits, and documentation as needed.

• Supports, participates and works cooperatively with the director of staffing
• Responsible for overall quality of patient care and clinical performance of nurses and aides
• Organizes clinical operations for the care center
• Reviews requests for services and determines patient eligibility/suitability for home care services. Works with intake in coordinating patient referrals and admissions
• Oversees scheduling
• Oversees payor verification and precertification requirements
• Reviews documentation of other staff members and ensures missing, incomplete and/or untimely documentation issues are resolved
• Assists clinicians in establishing immediate and long‑term patient goals, setting priorities and developing Plan of Care (POC)
• Regularly evaluates the needs of the patient and makes necessary revisions to the plan of care in collaboration with clinicians
• May provide direct patient care on an infrequent basis in times of emergency
• Participates in the on‑call process
• Assists with training of staff to ensure quality care, compliance and fiscal responsibility
• Participates in the investigation and resolution of patient/family/physician concerns

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• Associate or bachelor's degree in nursing
• 1+ year of clinical RN experience in home health or hospice
• 1+ year of RN management experience
• Current RN license, specific to the state(s) you are assigned to work
• Current CPR certification. Driver's License and access to a reliable transportation

(1) A master's degree from a program approved by the National League for Nursing or the American Public Health Association with a minimum of one year (1) full‑time clinical experience in a home health agency or related community health program which included care of the sick at home; or (2) A baccalaureate degree in nursing and a minimum of three (3) years of full‑time clinical experience in nursing, at least (1) one of which was in a home health agency or community health program which included care of the sick at home;

or (3) A registered nurse who has been continuously employed in the position of supervisor of clinical services in a home health agency in this state since January 1, 1979; or (4) A diploma in nursing or an associate's degree in nursing and (A) A minimum of three years of full‑time or full‑time equivalent clinical experience in nursing within the past five years, at least one year of which was in a home health care agency or community health program which included care of the sick at home;

and (B) Evidence of certification by the American Nurses' Association as a community health nurse or completion of…