Position: Clinical Care Coordinator
Location: Onsite - Birmingham, AL
Duration: Direct Placement - FTE
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Start: ASAP
General Responsibilities
To manage the plan of care for a caseload of patients, assuming 24-hour responsibility for patient caseload. To serve as the liaison with the multidisciplinary care team. To plan care management as achieved through coordination of care with physicians, nursing staff and other health professionals to ensure high quality patient outcomes are accomplished within the established time frame and appropriate use of resources. May coordinate patient follow-up clinics and schedule tests and surgeries.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitates implementation of plan of care for designated patient caseload.
- Participates in on-going staff development.
- Promotes quality, cost-effective management of patient care.
- Develops, initiates and monitors patient care pathways that identify an expected length of stay, goals of admission and discharge plan.
- Assumes responsibility for personal professional growth and development.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
- Associate's degree in nursing and five (5) years of relevant clinical nursing experience required; bachelor's degree in nursing preferred.
- Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.
- Currently licensed or eligible to be licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the Alabama Board of Nursing required. Certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart Association (AHA) is required or should be obtained within 30 days of employment.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Knowledge of evidence-based clinical guidelines across diverse conditions and population.
- Knowledge of care management and resource/utilization management
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate others
Body Fluid Exposure
- Typical job duties do not involve exposure to body fluids or tissue, but job may require performing unplanned Category I duties.