Nurse Practitioner - Part Time - Licensed FL - Telephonic After Hours Remote

$10,000 Sign-on bonus.

Telephonic After-Hours Call - Nights, Weekends, Rotating Holidays

Shifts Vary, Includes Weeknight, Weekends, and Holidays.

Candidates with recent experience in high-acuity geriatric care (e.g., SNF, LTACH, Hospitalist, ICU, CCU, Emergency) are preferred.

Optum Home & Community Care, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is creating something new in health care.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Available on provided telephonic platform, both taking and placing calls to coordinate care for members between facilities, hospitals, and Optum field colleagues
• Utilize EMR proficiently to provide acute care to members during overnight and weekend and holiday hours
• Primary Care Delivery
  • Manage both medical and behavioral, chronic, and acute conditions effectively, and in collaboration with a physician or specialty provider
  • Responsible for ensuring encounter is documented appropriately to support the diagnosis at that visit
  • Attend and complete all mandatory educational training requirements
• Care Coordination
  • Monitor the needs of members and families while facilitating any adjustments to the plan of care as situations and conditions change
  • Review orders and interventions for appropriateness and response to treatment to identify the most effective plan of care that aligns with the member’s needs and wishes
• Program Enhancement Expected Behaviors
  • Regular and effective communication with internal and external parties including physicians, members, key decision-makers, nursing facilities, HCC staff and other provider groups
  • Ability to meet shift scheduling requirements, and attendance expectations

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited Master of Science Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice program
• Active and unrestricted license in the state which you reside, or ability to obtain by start date
• Active Nurse Practitioner certification through a national board:
  • Board certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or the American Nurses Credentialing Center, with certification in one of the following:
  • Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Adult Nurse Practitioner
  • Gerontology Nurse Practitioner
  • Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Current, active DEA licensure/prescriptive authority or ability to obtain post-hire, per state regulations (unless prohibited in state of practice) (SCC04)
• Ability to gain a collaborative practice agreement, if applicable in your state
• Ability to complete physical requirements of the job including moving a 30-pound bag in and out of the car, navigating stairs and a variety of dwelling conditions, remain in a stationary position and position self to perform physical assessment
• Driver’s license and access to reliable transportation

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of clinical experience in practice (long-term care setting preferred)
• Experience in meeting the medical needs of patients with complex behavioral, social and/or functional needs
• Understanding of Geriatrics and Chronic Illness
• Understanding of Advanced Illness and end of life discussions
• Proficient computer skills including the ability to document medical information with written and electronic medical records

About Optum

Optum is the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.