Staff Nurse; RN or LPN - Notre Dame Health Care Center

Atrius Health and Reliant Medical Group, part of Optum Massachusetts, is seeking a full‑time Provider (PhD, PsyD, LICSW, or LMHC) to join our Behavioral Health team as the Associate Chief of Adult Collaborative Care in Worcester, MA. Optum is a clinician‑led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you'll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you'll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and erience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

• Coordinates goals with the Chief of Adult Collaborative Care and manages and delegates program management responsibilities effectively. Uses and monitors KPIs (key process indicators) to evaluate program success and report out to leadership. Evaluates the impact of solutions to ensure strategic goals are achieved.
• Builds and maintains a strong collaborative relationship with counterparts, including regular meetings, shared goals, and shared projects. In collaboration with designated counterparts in primary and specialty care, identifies areas of program weakness and develops and oversees countermeasures.
• Provides leadership support and acts as a mentor to Psych & BH staff. Creates and sustains an environment that promotes accountability, teamwork, collaboration, and change. Provides direction, guidance, and leadership and cultivates collaboration and enthusiasm for effective teamwork. Leads by example in the achievement of positive patient outcomes and improving the patient experience, and acts as a role model for staff to foster values, vision, and the mission of the PBH department and Optum MA as a whole.
• Supports and manages the implementation and training targets of the integrated/collaborative care and Centers for Excellence models. Communicates philosophy, workflows, and practice of the model to appropriate leadership and providers. Ensures practitioners implement the model constantly across all Centers and sites.
• Connects regularly with appropriate specialty and primary care peers to ensure strong connectivity between departments and programs.
• Acts as a mentor for staff clinicians through leadership, cultivating collaboration and enthusiasm. Leads by example in the achievement of positive patient outcomes and improving the patient experience. Provides direction, guidance, and leadership for effective teamwork and motivation.
• Leads regular provider meetings to ensure consistent communication on key issues, strategies, and clinical initiatives. Fosters the exchange of clinical ideas, case studies/consultations, and best practices among practitioners.
• Directs and supervises assigned personnel including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training. Makes recommendations on staffing levels, employee hires transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and other similar actions. Resolves grievances and other personnel problems within position responsibilities.
• Participates in the development of education and training opportunities practitioners to enhance clinical practice.
• Disseminates information pertinent to practice such as legislation, regulatory requirements and insurance updates, etc. Communicates to practitioners about departmental and organizational initiatives, goals, and objectives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Be part of a best‑in‑class employee experience that enables you to practice at the top of your license
• We believe that better care for clinicians equates to better care for patients
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