Description
Summary:
Collaborates and communicates with professional clinical and paraprofessional staff; and schedules designated services with staff and patients to fulfill patient needs. Ensures the timely and accurate delivery of services based on patient/family caregiver expectations and staff availability. Applies organizational and detail-oriented skills to utilize computer and manual scheduling systems to create weekly staffing assignments. Supports Western Connecticut Home Care Customer Service Reputation by promoting and maintaining a responsive, knowledgeable and accessible approach to all customer/patient contacts.
Responsibilities:
- Accurately creates and manages weekly nursing schedules to meet patient/family caregiver needs and expectations. Designs schedules by geographic areas to optimize staff efficiency; ensures that all field staff are scheduled to productivity every week, focusing on the best way to utilize staff to meet their weekly control-hour commitment. Communicates schedules to patient/family caregivers and field staff.
- Addresses missed staff visits to ensure coverage of services meet the patient plans of care, to include tracking therapy assistant assessment visits and therapy 13th and 19th visits.
- Distributes communications related to care-plan orientations and supervisions timely to appropriate supervisory and field staff.
- Notifies supervisor of inability to cover requests for services and unresolved discrepancies between visits ordered, scheduled and authorized.
- Edits schedules timely to accommodate clinical staff absences, ensuring that patients are assigned correctly and quickly.
- Assists with pre-bill audit activities as assigned.
- Assists with verification of time sheets to visits for accuracy of payroll and billing.
- Performs general office duties including but not limited to Word processing, photocopies, shredding, sorting/distributing mail, providing reception phone coverage.
- Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
- Maintain and Model Nuvance Health Foundational Values (Personal, Imaginative, Agile, Connected).
- Performs other duties as required.�
Education Skills Experience:
Required: Data entry and MS Word required. Excellent customer commnication skills. Ablility to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. Ability to be flexible and work well with others.
Minimum Experience: one year
Desired: Associate's Degree. MS Outlook preferred.
Other Information:
Required: Data entry and MS Word required. Excellent customer commnication skills. Ablility to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. Ability to be flexible and work well with others.
Minimum Experience: one year
Desired: Associate's Degree. MS Outlook preferred.
Working Conditions:
Manual: Some manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity
Occupational: Some occupational risk
Physical Effort: Sedentary/light effort. May exert up to 10 lbs. force
Physical Environment: Some exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.
Company: Western CT Home Care Inc
Org Unit: 615
Department: Clerical
Exempt: No
Salary Range: $18.67 - $35.51 Hourly
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