[Hiring] Field Based RN Case Manager @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

As a Telephone Case Manager RN with UnitedHealth Group, you'll support a diverse member population with education, advocacy, and connections to the resources they need to feel better and get well. Instead of seeing a handful of patients each day, your work may affect millions for years to come.

As a Field-Based Case Manager, you'll wear many hats and you will be visiting members in the hospital before discharge possibly with new medications or diagnoses. You'll assist members with safe, effective transitions from care environments to where they live. You may also act as an intermediary between providers and members, serving in numerous roles, such as:

• Educator
• Evaluator
• Service Coordinator
• Community Resource Researcher

The result? Fewer hospitalizations, ER visits, and costly service gaps; and a less stressed, more effective healthcare system for us all.

If you are located in Fort Worth, TX, you will have the flexibility to work remotely as you take on some tough challenges. Field-based role work from home but travel within 50 miles.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Visit members in the hospital prior to discharge
• Provide a complete continuum of quality care through close communication with members via in-person or on-phone interaction
• Support members with condition education, medication reviews, and connections to resources such as Home Health Aides or Meals on Wheels
• Assist members with the transition from a care facility back to their home

Qualifications

• Current, unrestricted RN license in the State of Texas
• 3+ years clinical experience in a hospital, acute care, home health/hospice, direct care or case management
• Proven ability to communicate complex or technical information in a manner that others can understand
• Proven ability to be flexible with daily schedule
• Proven problem-solving skills; the ability to systematically analyze problems, draw relevant conclusions and devise appropriate courses of action
• Computer/typing proficiency to enter/retrieve data in electronic clinical records
• Reliable transportation to travel within service delivery area which will be up to a 50-mile radius from your home

Requirements

• Experience working with the needs of vulnerable populations who have chronic or complex conditions
• Case Management experience including Certification in Case Management
• Medicaid, Medicare, Managed Care experience
• Oncology experience
• Home care/field-based case management experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

The salary for this role will range from $60,200 - $107,400 annually based on full-time employment.