[Hiring] Registered Nurse - Referral Liaison - Continuum of Care @SSM Health

Role Description

SSM is looking for an experienced nurse with Hospice/Home Health Liaison or Case Management experience that has a dynamic personality with a ton of energy and passion for Hospice and Home base care. Someone with resilience, but has a smile on their face all the times. Someone who knows all the challenges Home health and Hospice may have but sees a path forward to solving for them.

The selected individual will be responsible for:

• Communication with patients/families to discuss continuum of care services.
• Communicating with referral sources (case management, social work, clinics, providers, SNF/ALF facilities etc).
• Care coordination between continuum of care departments, such as branch departments, business development etc.
• Eligibility/Chart Review to determine appropriateness for continuum of care services.

The schedule is 3 days during the normal work week supporting Home Health, and then every weekend supporting Hospice. Weekend work primarily involves managing urgent hospice referrals, supporting timely admissions, and getting HH referrals started for Monday. This is potentially subject to change as we continue to work on staffing coverage across the teams.

Must obtain licenses for MO, IL, OK and WI within 6 months of starting.

Qualifications

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.
• No experience required.

Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.