Nurse Practitioner Supervisor - Urgent Home Visits

Company: Landmark Health
Location: Burlington
Posted on: November 18, 2020

Job Description:

Landmark Health is a high growth, entrepreneurial, home-based provider team that is transforming healthcare by serving the extensive needs of the most chronically ill in our communities. The role of the urgentivist extender supervisor will be to lead a team of urgentivist extenders and delivering urgent medical care in the homes of complex, frail, and vulnerable patients. This position will assist with urgent visits under the traditional Landmark Health model.

Through the integration of technology, a highly innovative care delivery model, and multidisciplinary clinical teams, Landmark delivers health management capabilities at scale for the frailest and most clinically complex segments of the population – the 3-5% of members that account for 20-30% of all national healthcare expenses annually.

This position will supervise our LPN/Paramedic Urgent visit providers.  Can be located in the Raleigh/Durham or Winston-Salem/Greensboro area.

As an urgentivist extender supervisor, your duties will be to:

Function as a day-to-day clinical leader by providing clinical decision support, guidance, and scheduling oversight including geographic deployment decisions to urgentivist extenders in managing urgent visits.

Provide oversight and to ensure best visit practices to avoid unnecessary ED transfers and hospital admissions. Assisting with determining appropriate cadence for the follow-up visits post urgent visit.

Perform needed urgent visits as needed to either provide support to the urgentivist extenders

Leverage the support of nurse care manager, behavioral health, social work, pharmacy, and dietician to meet patients’ medical, biopsychosocial, and financial needs

Coordinate with the market physicians and ideally across the continuum of care, including PCPs, ER physicians, hospitalists, and SNF providers in order to ensure smooth transitions and prevent readmissions

Perform regular skills training and provide specific education to the urgentivist extenders

Perform some administrative duties including monitoring and maintenance of urgentivist extender schedules and timecards. Other duties would include performing ride-a-longs and providing direct feedback to the team. Local idt liason- determining which idt to attend or how to have them present at a portion of each teams idt, provide education for any relevant LMW.

Meet at least monthly with the Landmark First medical directors, in addition to regular meetings with the local market RMD.

Completion of Nurse Practitioner (NP) accredited program

5+ years of clinical NP experience

Prior clinical background for acute care and urgent care management

Some administrative or clinical oversight experience preferred

Knowledge of clinical standards of care

Current unrestricted NP license, and current state driver’s license

Passion for delivering care to patients with complex, chronic illnesses

Willingness to conduct house calls

In order to work with potentially vulnerable patient populations and to keep employees healthy while caring for patients, all patient-facing employees of Landmark must provide evidence of the following required immunizations/vaccinations as a condition of employment: TB, MMR, Tdap, and Influenza. Declinations may be accommodated based on your medical history, an allergy or religious beliefs. Please immediately contact HR if you wish to apply for an exemption from our vaccination requirements so that we may determine if you qualify for an accommodation.

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