Nursing Supervisor - Bridgeport

Option Care Health•Shelton, CT

About The Position

Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States, with over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians. The company aims to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions across all 50 states by re-imagining the infusion care experience through clinical leadership, expertise, and national scale. Option Care Health is committed to developing an inclusive, respectful, engaging, and rewarding culture, valuing diverse talents, backgrounds, and perspectives. A Nursing Supervisor is a licensed professional responsible for providing and overseeing direct and indirect patient care services under a physician’s plan of care, adhering to Option Care Health policies, state professional standards, and regulatory entities. This role involves complete patient assessment, care planning, patient and caregiver education, evaluating progress toward goals, and recommending plan of care changes. Nursing Supervisors possess additional competencies for independent practice in their specialty, enabling them to train and oversee pertinent competencies. Clinical competency is maintained by providing direct patient care 20-40% of the time. In Medicare Certified Home Health agencies, this position may also serve as the alternate administrator and/or alternate director of nursing.

Requirements

Registered Nurse with a license in the current state of practice with 1 year of nursing supervisory/charge experience, or at least 3 years of relevant nursing experience with demonstrated progression.
Required certification in CPR.
Member of a state or national professional organization.
Access to a reliable means of transportation, which will enable the incumbents to make home visits to treat/attend to their patients.
If such means of transportation would include a personal vehicle, a valid driver’s license and a proof of insurance would be required.
Experience applying knowledge of local, State, Federal, accrediting body, and OSHA rules and regulations.
Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Experience in the indirect management of team members, including assisting in the development, training, and assignment of work/projects to other members of a team.
Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting, and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).
Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding, and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
Willing to travel at least 50% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Nice To Haves

BSN
CRNI or other professional certification.
At least 1 year of supervisory experience in a hospital or home health care setting is preferred.
At least 1 year of experience in the indirect management of team members, including assisting in the development, training, and assignment of work/projects to other team members is preferred.

Responsibilities

Competent in the clinical management of home infusion patients including Patient management skills, the Nursing Process, the rules of Federal, state, and local regulatory entities that oversee and control the provision of care in a Home Health Agency.
Knowledgeable of documentation and billing requirements for home health/ infusion care goods and services.
Determines suitability of patients for home care.
Supervises, monitors, and evaluates the quality and effectiveness of patient care, including, when appropriate, in home evaluations of field staff.
Reviews and monitors appropriateness of Nursing Care Plans and directs the staff to modify the plan as needed.
Acts as Administrator and/or Director of Nursing of the Home Health Agency for Medicare certified home health agencies in the absence of a director or Manager of Nursing.
Manages daily activities with regards to effective operations and communications and ensures the office remains in compliance with all regulating and accreditation entities.
Complies with reporting requirements, ensures policy and procedure, compliance and monitors and evaluates medical supply usage.
Participates in the process for assessing, managing, and reporting nursing operational and financial data to the Regional Nurse Manager, Area Director of Nursing, and/or Director of Operations.
Supports the development and implementation of the Plan of Care for each patient.
Develops, implements, evaluates, and participates in office specific continuing education and orientation programs.
Assists the Director of Operations, Area Director of Nursing and/or the Nurse Manager in the recruitment, development, and monitoring of new staff.
Coordinates and participates in on-call responsibilities.
Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information.
Participates as a member of or directs the professional advisory committee, infection prevention and process improvement teams, including conducting chart audits.
Identifies opportunities for improvement and communicates to the Nurse Manager, Area Director of Nursing and/or Director of Operations.
Speaks knowledgeably of the scope of services that are available through Option Care and provides support to sales professionals on an ongoing basis.