Clinical Care Coordinator RN VHS-Homecare-Woodland Park, NJ-FT

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Are you a nurse who is looking for a change? Do you feel overwhelmed and spread too thin in your current job? A return to the HOME could make you fall in love with nursing all over again! Focus on one patient at a time with Hackensack Meridian Health  nurses spend valuable and meaningful 1:1 time with patients in their homes, where they feel most comfortable.

Do what you do best, with a flexible schedule in a setting with fewer distractions.

Visiting Health Services of New Jersey (VHSNJ), a partnership between Hackensack Meridian Health and St. Joseph's Health, provides a comprehensive continuum of home health care and hospice services, support, and resources to patients and families in Passaic, Bergen, and parts of Morris counties. The VHSNJ multidisciplinary clinical and support teams provide high quality care to patients where they most want to be-in their homes.

At Visiting Health Services of New Jersey and Hackensack Meridian Health, we recognize our full- and part-time benefit eligible team members by offering a Total Rewards package including:
Comprehensive Health Benefits, generous Paid Time Off, Travel Reimbursement as well as an investment in your future with a 401k match and Tuition Reimbursement.

Education,

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Diploma Certificate in Nursing.
• Minimum of two (2) or more years RN Experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years certified home care experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office platforms.

Education,

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• OASIS certified.
• BSN.

Licenses and Certifications

Required:

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• BLS AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.

Responsible for assisting the clinical operation by providing telephonic case management as well as quality, patient satisfaction and process flow initiatives and reports to the Manager of Clinical Practice.

• Collaborates with specialists, other physicians, and professionals at local healthcare facilities and in the community, to provide home health services to patients in need of skilled nursing care. Coordinates care by ensuring effective communication and completion of treatments/procedures.
• Utilizes the nursing process (assessing, planning & implementing care) to provide nursing visits &/or manage a nursing case manager caseload, as needed. Provides comprehensive care and teaching to patients and families regarding the individualized plan of care. Applies clinical knowledge and skills (i.e., administration of medications, treatments, procedures, etc.) to safely provide direct patient care in a professional, caring, culturally- sensitive, and cost efficient manner;
  
  ensuring appropriate clinical coordination and support of patients and families.
• Assist client care coordinators in prioritizing patients in scheduling visits for case managers, through clinical chart/ documentation review and triage, ensuring timely starts of care.
• Functions as the patient advocate in coordinating patient care; including performing crisis intervention when required. Collaborates and confers with community agencies to identify resources that meet the patient's needs. Refers patients to community resources, as needed.
• Attends patient care conferences and staff meetings as needed. Communicates the patient's special needs to appropriate team members.
• Documents assessment and reassessment data, patient care activities, interventions, patient's responses, patient and family education, and…