Complex Care Manager (Full-TimeDay) HybridStratford

Job Details

Serves as a regional liaison to the Care Management Department and when necessary assumes the primary Care Managers role. This role is activated for complex patients requiring advanced discharge planning support due to barriers such as extended hospital stays guardianship or legal interventions behavioral health comorbidities homelessness substance use disorders or medically complex conditions requiring coordination with state and local agencies. The Complex Care Manager drives interdisciplinary collaboration and leads care plan execution for patients with highly challenging psychosocial needs ensuring safe ethical and timely transitions across the care continuum.

Job Description

Schedule: Monday - Friday (8 am - 4:30 pm)

Hybrid Schedule

No weekends no holidays or on-call

NJ LICENSE IS REQUIRED

MSW IS REQUIRED

Summary
Serves as a regional liaison to the Care Management Department and when necessary assumes the primary Care Managers role. This role is activated for complex patients requiring advanced discharge planning support due to barriers such as extended hospital stays guardianship or legal interventions behavioral health comorbidities homelessness substance use disorders or medically complex conditions requiring coordination with state and local agencies. The Complex Care Manager drives interdisciplinary collaboration and leads care plan execution for patients with highly challenging psychosocial needs ensuring safe ethical and timely transitions across the care continuum.

Job Duties

• Coordinates family and/or interdisciplinary meetings with all specialties or external agencies to promote 30% movement through the continuum.
• Collaborates with admitting physician ED physicians hospitalists nursing and other clinical ancillary staff to assist 15% with the patient assessment and high-risk screen for the purpose of resource management.
• Provides consultation for patient/families with complex psychosocial or continuing care needs that may present obstacles for a safe transition to a lower level of care or discharge to the community and makes referrals to population health teams payer care coordination teams or external agencies when appropriate.
• Works collaboratively with the IPT Care Management team to monitor the progress of completing complex discharge plans and collaborates to resolve challenges.
• Facilitates patient movement to alternate levels of care within the hospital through coordination and ongoing oversight with patient/family physician and interdisciplinary team.
• Attends assigned Care Progression Rounds Complex Care Rounds or specific patient meetings and promotes CCM role as an adjunct to the teams clinical expertise.
• Interacts with co-workers visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Social Work
• 3 years Inpatient Care Management experience in an acute care setting
• Ability to work independently setting priorities to coordinate care plans efficiently under constraints of value-based care.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to negotiate with families patients physicians and third-party payers for optimum plan.
• High degree of initiative and decision making skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Community Agencies required to provide patients and families with appropriate choices and options for post hospital care or prevention of admission.
• Knowledge of guardianship process.
• ACM - Accredited Case Manager - American Case Management Association within 3 Years or
• CCM - Certified Case Manager - Commission for Case Manager Certification within 3 Years

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing frequent keyboard use *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling bending squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Salary Range

$57366.99 to $81747.48 Annual

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience skills and qualifications. This position is not eligible for an annual incentive.

Positions posted as annual salaries reflect an estimated amount for a 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) (i.e. 40 hour equivalent)) positions for less than 1.0 FTE will be prorated.)

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

18 East Laurel Road Stratford New Jersey United States of America

Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.