Care Consultant- Registered Nurse or LICSW

Park Nicollet is looking to hire a Care Consultant our Home Based Medicine team! Come join us as a Partner for Good and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day.

Position Summary:

The Care Consultant works with the highly complex patient, assessing the patient and their environment and then develops individualized care plans that impact health goals and reduces highly complex social needs. This position assists along any point of the care continuum where care is fractured, or where a transitional need is identified by:

• Providing an in-person assessment of the patient and their environment to identify barriers, with intensive, short-term follow-up either in person or telephonically.
• Utilizes motivational interviewing, care coaching and advanced engagement models to assess the patient's level of activation and to identify personal goals to align to the medical plan of care
• Addressing urgent high-risk and rising risk needs for harm-reduction and mitigation
• Connecting the dots between caregivers, community members, plan, and health care team members for clarity in the plan of care

The successful Care Consultant has a high engagement rate, appropriate level of care planning, and measurable improvement in unplanned and avoidable utilization.

Bring us your passion and expertise and join a diverse, engaged, and experienced team in an exciting care management model. This position is an advocate for a patient-centered, high-quality, and impactful care model. This is an ideal opportunity for creative, motivated, self-starters. Successful Care Consultants in this role enjoy challenges, variety, autonomy, and have a passion for Value-Based Care. The Care Consultant works with Complex, High-Risk patients, most often in a transitional space. The Care Consultant meets the patient where they are at -including in their home - assessing both them and their environment, to collaborate on a plan of care that puts the patient at the center. The Care Consultant practices the Quadruple Aim of reducing unnecessary costs and services to drive efficient quality outcomes while addressing patient and team satisfaction. The Care Consultant works as an intensive care manager across the care continuum that meets the patient in their home and works with both organizational and community-based partners.

Travel will be required in the greater Stillwater/Western WI area.

Work Schedule:

• Monday through Friday

• 8:00am-5:00, varying hours

Required Qualifications:

We are open to hiring either a Registered Nurse or LICSW

Registered Nurse Minimum Qualifications

• Current Minnesota RN license
• WI license must be obtained within 6 months
• BS, BA or AD in nursing from a college or university.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience within an adult acute care setting, hospital, home health setting or a managed care company, or service of vulnerable adults.

LICSW Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree in social work

• Minimum of 2 years healthcare experience required.

• Active, unrestricted SW license in the state of MN required.

• WI license to be obtained within 6 months

• Regional travel required: valid MN driver's license and reliable vehicle.

• This position provides psychotherapy to patients and requires Park Nicollet to comply with the Minnesota Statute MS603 (formerly 148A).

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS or BA preferred.

• Minimum of 2 years Care Management experience preferred.

Benefits:

Park Nicollet offers a competitive benefits package (for eligible positions) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, a retirement program, time away from work, insurance options, tuition reimbursement, an employee assistance program, onsite clinic and much more!