Job Description
At Spira Care, population health and reimagined care delivery drive our ambitions for member experience, medical costs, and health improvement. The Diabetes Care Specialist position exists to develop therapeutic relationships with Spira Care patients to help them overcome the health challenges of living with diabetes and engage in meaningful life activities.
Effectively engage and support patients' self-efficacy using therapeutic strategies such as acceptance and validation, empathic response, supportive listening, and strategic questioning, shared decision making, teach-back, praise, reassurance, advocacy, reframing, goal-oriented medical care.
Help patients and their caregivers become experts on their health conditions using education, health literacy support, family and social support.
Deliver diabetes-related treatment and monitoring support for patients and their families.
Develop and leverage goal-oriented patient education focused on prevention and/or mitigation of recurrent health challenges.
Use clinical decision support tools relevant to prevention and EMR for clinical documentation and care plan development.
Continuously collect and assess clinical and quality of life data related to patient health status to develop, execute and evaluate the care plan in collaboration with the patient's interprofessional team.
Evaluate patient's engagement with the care plan and collaborate with the patient, family, and interprofessional care team to make needed adjustments to achieve clinical and quality of life goals.
Utilize evidence to drive clinical decisions and practice related to individual and population health, balancing the evidence against patient and family preferences, safety, effectiveness, and cost of care.
Establish goals and strategies for meeting care coordination needs across settings with the patient, family, and other care providers.
Maintain a level of professional development through continuing education, quality improvement initiatives, and sharing knowledge
Partner with other Care Team members to create appropriate outreach and education opportunities that support diabetes prevention and health promotion activities.
Utilize resources and tools to educate patients and staff about developments in diabetes care and treatment.
Exercise sound clinical judgment to provide assessments of patients with respect and compassion for the individual.
Light local travel may be required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum 3-5 years working Diabetes Education or Care, preferably in a value-based primary care system
- CPR and BLS certification
- Certification by the National Board of Diabetes Educators (CDE) required or must be obtained within the first two years of employment
- Experience working with patients, families and caregivers from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds
- Broad understanding of healthcare, its structural inequalities and opportunities for systemic improvement
- Skilled in delivering both therapeutic and preventive strategies in a culturally appropriate way and one that exercises appropriate sensitivity to health literacy
- Knowledge and experience documenting patient care in an electronic medical record (EMR)
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills as demonstrated by comfort in one-to-one and large group settings
- Ability... For full info follow application link.
