$10,000 Sign-on Bonus for External Candidates
Please Note: This role requires car travel to member homes in both Dallas and Kaufman counties. Mileage and tolls reimbursed.
Optum is seeking a Full-time HouseCalls Nurse Practitioner to join our HouseCalls team in Dallas and Kaufman Counties, TX. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is creating a seamless health journey for patients across the care continuum.
As a member of the broader Home and Community Care team, you’ll provide annual clinical assessments to patients in the comfort of their homes. This important preventive care helps identify and reduce health risks for patients, in addition to coordinating appropriate follow-up care to improve health and well-being.
At Optum, the integrated medical teams who practice within Home and Community Care are creating something new in health care. Together, we are bringing high-end medical service, compassionate care, and industry-leading solutions to our most vulnerable patient populations. Our holistic approach addresses the physical, mental, and social needs of our patients wherever they may be - helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere. We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across care settings. Join our team, it’s your chance to improve the lives of millions while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
In this role, you will have the ability to achieve work-life balance. Flexible scheduling is offered where providers can flex their time over the 7-day work week. No on-call, no weekends, and no holidays required.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Conduct in-home assessments including an evaluation of past medical history, review of systems, medication reconciliation, vital signs, and comprehensive physical exam.
- Perform evidence-based practice screenings including point of care testing (as appropriate).
- Identify diagnoses to be used in care management and active medical management in the furtherance of treatment.
- Formulate a list of current and past medical conditions using clinical knowledge and judgment and the findings of your assessment.
- Communicate findings in your assessment that will be used to inform member’s PCP of potential gaps in care.
- Identify urgent and emergent situations and intervene appropriately.
- Educate members on topics such as disease process, medication, and compliance.
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Active NP license or ability to obtain by start date. Licensure must be unencumbered, free of any open/unresolved disciplinary actions including probation or restrictions against privilege to practice.
- Active ANCC or AANP national certification in Family, Geriatrics, Adult, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care, or Adult-Gerontology Acute Care certification, or the ability to obtain national certification and/or NP license in the state of assignment by start date.
- Ability to complete physical requirements of the job including lifting a 30-pound bag in and out of the car, navigating stairs and a variety of dwelling conditions, and sit, stand, and kneel to perform physical assessment.
- Reliable transportation to complete home visit assessments.
- Proficient computer skills including the ability to document medical information with written and electronic medical records.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years of clinical experience in the highest level of education, clinical setting.
- Experience in gerontology, cardiology, internal medicine, or endocrinology.
- Home health care or home visit experience.
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