Home Health Transitional Care Liaison, Weekend/Afternoon, Part-Time

Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice•Northbrook, IL

13d•Remote

About The Position

At Residential Home Health and Hospice (‘Residential’), we’re looking to add to our extraordinary care team. Grounded by our belief that outstanding care is best delivered in a team-based environment, our Residential Home Health Transitional Nurse Liaison will partner with our field staff and leaders to provide the best support to the patients that we serve. With our 20-year track record, Residential is a strong leader in the industry. We are consistently named a Top Workplace by our employees and genuinely care where you are in your career path. Remote - MUST BE LOCATED IN ILLINOIS!

Requirements

Must be a licensed RN, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist OR Social Worker
Associate Degree required
Minimum of one (1) year of experience in an acute care setting
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a customer service capacity

Nice To Haves

Bachelor Degree preferred
One (1) year of experience in home health preferred

Responsibilities

Responsible for obtaining complete/accurate demographic information, medical history including diagnosis for care and primary care physician information
Responsible for introducing Residential Home Health to the patient/caregiver, explaining scope of our services, skilled services requested and coordinating start of care visit.
Other duties include ordering requested DME, infusion services, and wound care.
Community Education as requested by our sales to physician offices, assisted living facilities, including but not limited to educational in-services, blood pressure clinics and health fairs.
Patient education at bedside, arranging post discharge physician follow up appointments, sharing important discharge information with the primary care physician.
Attending discharge planning meeting as requested, working with the facility team to provide a safe and successful discharge home.
Determining appropriateness of skilled home care services/hospice
One (1) week follow up customer service call to patient/caregiver when necessary
Communication with the Clinical team on all complex, chronically ill patients, assisting staff, referral sources in preventing re-hospitalizations.
Complete documentation about the patient status and discharge plan with Residential’s EMR to facilitate communication and complete documentation within partner EMR when applicable
Assist in obtaining regulatory documentation as required.
All other duties as assigned by supervisor.