HOME HEALTH CARE RN TEAM LEADER - UT Med. Center Home Care - Knoxville, TN at Knoxville

Job Description

Full-time Home Health RN Team Leader forUT Med. Center Home Care - Knoxville, TN. A proud member of LHC Group.

If you are a compassionate and level-headed Home Health RN TeamLeader with a passion for quality healthcare and a desire for career satisfaction, join LHC Group today! LHC Group helps patients of all ages make the transition to post-acute care at home in communities across the country. We combine a high quality hometown medical staff with a dynamic, clinically driven operational model and an efficient management team to offer a comprehensive health care package that puts the patients needs first. While we are a growing healthcare provider, we function more like a supportive family to our employees. Our goal is to provide our employees with the environment, tools and encouragement to achieve their professional and personal goals.

As a Home Health RN TeamLeader with LHC Group, you will manage the day-to-day operations of the home health care RNs that make up your team and ensure continuity of patient care throughout the day by managing your teams schedule. You are responsible for the quality of care and relevant documentation, and you will manage patient and physician phone calls and communications throughout the day. You will visit patients at their homes to teach them and their caregivers care techniques, as well as to provide training to RNs. You will also assist in the formulation, revision, implementation and evaluation of standard policies and procedures.

Home Health RN Team Leader -Home Health Care RN Manager

Job Responsibilities

As a Home Health RN TeamLeader with LHC Group, you are responsible for the provision of care for the patient caseload assigned to your team of home health care clinical staff including RNs. You will initiate and coordinate each patients treatment plan by contacting community service organizations and assigned staff (including therapists and/or social workers) for particular patient cases. You will also receive referrals, coordinate admissions and make initial patient evaluations. Additional responsibilities include:

• Directing patient care by reviewing and providing supervision for each patients plan of care
• Assisting with employee training, disciplinary procedures, evaluation and termination
• Assuring completion of record reviews of each patient for recertification
• Coordinating transfer and discharge of patients
• Conducting medical chart audits
• Taking daily staff reports on patient caseloads
• Following-up on patient lab work
• Assuring financial and regulatory compliance
• Participating in the Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement process by ensuring that the agency adheres to Medicare guidelines, follows physician orders and completes accurate documentation

Job Requirements

Requirements:

As a Home Health RN TeamLeader with LHC Group, you must have excellent communication skills, be a good listener and able to multitask. You must be an independent decision maker who knows when to ask for help and be able to manage people in a motivational and constructive way. Additional requirements include:

• ASN degree
• Current RN license in state of employment
• Minimum 1 year clinical nursing experience, Home Health, Charge nurse/leadership experience strongly preferred
• Current drivers license and insured vehicle
• CPR certification
• Computer literacy
• Ability to travel as needed

Benefits

At LHC Group, we offer an opportunity to be part of something thats more than just a job. We are always growing and there are many opportunities for advancement to managerial, directorial and executive roles around the country. We know that our employees work hard, so we offer an excellent and competitive salary and benefits package as well as opportunities to share in our companys financial growth and success. Furthermore, we make sure that you have the tools and technology you need to be able to do your job well, give quality care and seize the opportunities we offer.

As a financially stable, well-established company we have an informal work culture and an open-door policy; CEO Keith Myers encourages staff at all levels to reach out to him with concerns, questions or comments. LHC Group understands the needs of our employees and we give Home Health RNs the independence and flexibility to attend to professional as well as personal obligations during the working day.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Cancer/Critical Illness insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(K) retirement plan with company match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid time-off
• Holiday pay
• Voluntary term life insurance
• Supplemental Term Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Disability gap insurance
• Accident insurance
• MedSupport insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Bereavement Pay
• Orientation period with RN preceptor
• Continuing Education Units through Online Management System

LHC Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information, please visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you!

Country: USA, State: Tennessee, City: Knoxville, Company: LHC Group..