Nurse Practitioner for Colorado Springs

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UnitedHealth Group
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Job Location(s): Colorado Springs
Employment Term: Regular
Employment TypeFull Time
Start Date:As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:Not Provided
Required Experience: Open
Related Categories:Healthcare - Practitioner/Technician

Position Description

Nurse Practitioner for Colorado Springs-330336
Description
Key responsibilities of the Nurse Practitioner include:
  • Providing direct care and consultation to aging residents in a variety of settings including long-term care facilities, doctor's offices and members homes
  • Collaborating with primary care physicians, facility staff, patients' families and the hospice team
  • Participating in care conferences with other providers and patient family members
  • Working with the facilities utilization review process
  • Educating nursing home staff, physicians and administration
  • Coordination of care for patients
  • Delivery of cost-effective, quality Primary Care to assigned members in collaboration with assigned physician. Assess and coordinate medically necessary care for members while interfacing directly with providers and case managers.
  • Communicate effectively with physicians, members, key facility stakeholders, staff and other providers.
  • Able to lift up to 40 pounds.
  • Bending, squatting, sitting, standing - up and down motions several times throughout the day.
Evercare is part of the family of companies that UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.
When you use your skills, talent and energy for the patients of Evercare, you'll be able to do more and do it better.

By tapping into our extensive knowledge base to manage care plans for elderly, disabled, and chronically ill people, you'll ensure that their unique needs are fully understood by all care givers. In short, you'll help make a huge health care system work like a personalized health care team.

Discover how fulfilling it is to work among more than 75,000 people who are as committed, driven, intelligent and passionate as you. Put your heart into a career with Evercare.

Qualifications
  • Nurse Practitioner national certification
  • Certification in Adult, Family or Gerontology
  • Minimum of 3 recent years working as an NP
  • Current Unrestricted licensure from CO
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook and Word
  • Transportation to drive in assigned territory (within a 60 mile radius of zip code 80919)
In addition, assets that would be beneficial include:
  • Clinical experience
  • Long-term care experience
  • A background in managed care with an emphasis on palliative and end of life care
  • Familiarity with Medicare and ICD-9 coding
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random tests.
Job Clinical Practitioners
Primary LocationUS-CO-Colorado Springs
Organization Ovations Hospice Sr Mgmt
Schedule Full-time
Number of Openings 1

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