Nurse Practitioner (Np)

The Nurse Practitioner will provide oversight to the Community Health Worker (CHW) team and evaluate and approve assessments completed by the CHW team. This role will provide holistic and quality care to members enrolled in our CalAIM Enhanced Care Management Program. This includes closing any identified open care gaps, Health Risk Social Needs gaps and re-engaging members with primary care services and support to improve member quality of life and decrease total cost of care. If you enjoy working in a collaborative environment and with all aspects of patient care, please share your past related experience along with your application.

FLSA Status

Exempt

Salary Range

$125,000 - $180,000

Reports To

Senior Vice President / Principal

Direct Reports

(5) Community Health Workers, (1) Patient Care Navigator

Location

Salinas/Monterey, CA (onsite)

Travel

Up to 80%

Work Type

Regular

Schedule

Full-Time

Position Description:

• Work effectively with individuals and families to assist them in solving physical, mental and social health problems.

• Work effectively as a leader of a health team.

• Speak and write effectively including the preparation of clear and concise reports;

• Recognize social problems which affect health.

• Instruct in the prevention of disease, good health practices, and the health care of an ill or injured person.

• Participate in the development of standardized procedures, and in accordance with established protocol, construct and interpret a medical history, perform a physical assessment, evaluate patient behavior, perform and interpret selected laboratory tests, and identify problems and develop and implement treatment plans for patients.

• Maintain effective working relationships with other departments and agencies and the community.

• Consult effectively with physicians and allied health personnel to improve total care outcome for the patient.

• Provide health promotion, prevention, and treatments to patients.

• Prescribe medications when needed to ensure patient health and well-being

• Ensure complete and accurate documentation of patient information and treatments for patient charts and medical records.

• Use comprehensive knowledge to assess patients by diagnosing diseases, disorders, or conditions.

• Present professional guidance to other health professionals and working autonomously with other interdisciplinary health care professionals.

• Initiate health care treatment for health care management, therapeutic interventions, and prescribing medication.

• Effectively communicate with diverse populations, including physicians, employees, patients, and families.

• Leading team of CHW and Care Navigators in the ECM Program

• Working with providers to close quality care gaps for referred clients

Qualifications:

• Possession of a valid license to practice as a professional registered nurse in the State of California

• Completion of the requirements for Nurse Practitioner as specified in the regulations of the Board of Registered Nurses, California Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 14, Article 8, Section 1482.

• 5 years' work experience in healthcare management and patient care

• Strong experience in patient care assessment and working with providers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Must have the ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.

• Ability to maintain highly confidential information.

• Master's degree in nursing

• Bi-lingual English/Spanish preferred.

Working knowledge of the following required:

• Timely and accurate documentation of day-to-day activities in designated technology platform.

• Adaptable to new technologies and software.

• Proficiency in EMR system(s), Outlook and data entry experience preferred.

• Basic PC skills (MS Word/Outlook/PPT/Excel).

• Knowledge of Federal and State regulations for Medicare and Medicaid and other national and state funded programs.

• Knowledge of community resources access.

Examples of Competencies:

• Ability to use independent judgment and to manage and impart confidential information.

• Ability to analyze and solve problems; requires details, data and facts that must be analyzed and challenged prior to making decisions.

• Strong communication, listening interpersonal skills.

• Ability to clearly communicate medical information to professional practitioners and/or the public.

• Excellent organization, prioritization, follow up, analytical and time management skills with ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Good interpersonal skills, sense of urgency, being proactive and ownership for one's work.

• Dependable, with strong work ethic and extremely high degree personal integrity.

• Ability to deal with multiple interruptions on a continual basis that must be met with a friendly exchange with others.

• Ability to develop and implement new approaches to improve processes, procedures, or the general work environment.

• Ability to review critical issues, effectively solve problems and create action plans.

Physical/Mental Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Examples of Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, bend, sit, talk, lift, or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands and arms to operate general office equipment PC, telephone, file cabinets, copier, postage meter, fax machine and printer. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move between 10 and 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. The employee may need to travel to healthcare practices.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Benefits:

As a firm passionate about health care, we're deeply committed to the health and wellness of our own team members. We offer comprehensive, affordable insurance plans for our team and their families, and a host of other unique benefits, such as a yearly stipend for wellness-related activities, and a paid parental leave program. You can learn more about our benefits offerings here: https://copehealthsolutions.com/careers/why-cope-health-solutions/.

What We Do:

COPE Health Solutions is a national mission-driven consulting firm that partners with health systems and payor clients. We provide our clients with the tools, services and advice they need to thrive in the current complex and uncertain pluralistic payment environment and achieve visionary, organizationally relevant results. Our firm has expertise in all aspects of population health, strategy, delivery system development, payment systems reform, workforce development and population health management support services, including peerless analytics and performance improvement. We are driven by our passion to help transform health care delivery, align financial incentives to support population health management and build the workforce needed as health care moves to value-based care.

In partnership with the Keck Graduate Institute, the COPE Health Scholar Services provide pre-health students and careerists looking to make a transition to health care with hands-on, experiential education opportunities. Scholars are carefully selected, well-trained and placed in clinical and administrative areas within hospitals and ambulatory care centers, where they are integrated into and assist the health care clinical or administrative team. The COPE Health Scholars Programs is a unique opportunity for students and those considering a career transition to bridge the gap between academic training and real life, as well as to gain specific training for non-licensed job roles.

To Apply:

To apply for this position, or to view all available positions, visit us at https://copehealthsolutions.com/careers/open-positions/.