Nurse Navigator-Exempt (Palliative Care) - 40 hours, days

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Exemption Status:

Exempt

Hiring Range:

$83,116.80 - $149,593.60

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations .

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

10020 - 5704 Palliative Care

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Guides patients through the healthcare system from screening through diagnosis and follow up, by assisting with access issues, developing relationships with service providers and tracking interventions and outcomes. Promotes a positive work environment which emphasizes respect to our customers, patients, patients’ families, providers, caregivers, and other departments. Serves as a clinical expert in the care of these patients.

I. Major Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the entry of patients into the diagnostic and/or treatment system and coordinates their care including family involvement. Follows the patients throughout the continuum of health care services across multiple departments.
• Assists patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, recommended follow up and resources available.
• Utilizes nursing process to comprehensively assess the patients’ physical and psychological sta-tus.
• Evaluates progress of patients along the continuum and is responsible for professional and per-sonal modifications along with the healthcare team as appropriate. May assist with tracking of post care patients to ensure post treatment standards of care are met along with referrals. As necessary, ensures that patients receive clinical satisfaction surveys.
• Coordinates and participates in multidisciplinary planning conferences, collaboratively assists with the development of patient summaries for use by care team.
• Provides patient and family education across the continuum of care and facilitates symptom management.
• Provides access to community resources and links to support services such as: social services, nutrition services, psychologist, pastoral care, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy, financial counseling, pharmacy, and related organizations. May coordinate and participate in patient support groups with Social Workers.
• Assists with tracking metrics and quality indicators for diagnosing and treating promptly and ef-fectively. May assist with production of relevant quality improvement reports.
• Develop, implement, support and/or attend related programs/workshops/seminars/support services, etc.
• Utilization and optimization of data systems to identify and triage patients and track data out-comes.
• May assist with calls to Clinic and perform telephone triage within the scope of practice as a li-censed registered nurse.
• May work across multiple campuses and settings.

II. Position Qualifications:

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse licensure and registration.

Preferred:

• Masters Degree in Nursing.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

• Minimum of 5 years nursing experience.
• Excellent teaching, consultation, and customer service skills.
• Excellent critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates leadership experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

Preferred:

• Skilled with utilization of EMR and other software.
• Experience with Project Management.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

ADDENDUM FOR NURSE NAVIGATOR PALLIATIVE CARE ROLE

Position Summary:

Same.

Major Responsibilities:

Same

Preferred:

Differences in Qualifications:

• Palliative Care Certification.

Preferred:

• Previous Palliative Care experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.