Optum

Nurse Practitioner HouseCalls: Montgomery, Lowndes Counties, AL

Hayneville, AL

full-time
Outpatient

Job Highlights

  • Top pick in specialty
  • $10,000 Sign-on Bonus for External Candidates

    Flexible provider schedules available between 20-40 hours per week!

    Optum Home & Community Care, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is creating something new in health care. We are uniting industry-leading solutions to build an integrated care model that holistically addresses an individual’s physical, mental and social needs – helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere.

    As a team member of our HouseCalls product, we provide annual clinical assessments to patients in the comfort of their homes. This important preventive care helps identify and reduce health risks for patients, in addition to coordinating appropriate follow-up care to improve health and well-being.

    We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across care settings. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

    HouseCalls is a Nurse Practitioner led model of care designed around the person offers a fulfilling career where you can focus on what brought you into medicine: keeping patients healthy.

    Providers perform annual clinical assessments to members in the comfort of their homes. HouseCalls visits are effective in reducing health risks, identifying acute issues, and connecting members to key support services.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Conduct in-home assessments including an evaluation of past medical history, review of systems, medication reconciliation, vital signs, and comprehensive physical exam
    • Perform evidence-based practice screenings including point of care testing (as appropriate)
    • Identify diagnoses to be used in care management and active medical management in the furtherance of treatment
    • Formulate a list of current and past medical conditions using clinical knowledge and judgment and the findings of your assessment
    • Communicate findings in your assessment that will be used to inform member’s PCP of potential gaps in care
    • Identify urgent and emergent situations and intervene appropriately
    • Educate members on topics such as disease process, medication, and compliance

    Required Qualifications:

    • Active NP license or ability to obtain by start date. Licensure must be unencumbered, free of any open/unresolved disciplinary actions including probation or restrictions against privilege to practice
    • Active ANCC or AANP national certification in Family, Geriatrics, Adult, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care, or Adult-Gerontology Acute Care certification, or the ability to obtain national certification and/or NP license in state of assignment by start date
    • Ability to complete physical requirements of the job including lifting a 30-pound bag in and out of the car, navigating stairs and a variety of dwelling conditions, and sit, stand and kneel to perform physical assessment
    • Reliable transportation to complete home visit assessments

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • 1+ years of clinical experience in their highest level of education, clinical setting
    • May be requested to obtain additional licensure in other geographic areas
    • Experience in gerontology, cardiology, internal medicine, or endocrinology
    • Home Health care or home visit experience
    • Ability to travel throughout the state, beyond your assigned region, up to 5% of the time. Based on business needs with advanced notice, eligible for additional compensation incentives
    • Fluency in Spanish, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, or other language

    Location Insights

    • A-

      Cost of Living

    • C+

      Access to Outdoor Activities

    • C

      Access to Parks

    • C

      Access to Restaurants

    • C

      Commute

    • C-

      Public Schools

    • Total Population

      872

    • Median Rent

      $451

    • Median Home Value

      $67,800

    • Median Income

      $23,036

    Posted April 27, 2024