Clinical Lead Nurse Practitioner

Job Description

Job Description

Optimal Care is where your dedication meets a rewarding career.

As a clinician owned and operated company, we create the opportunity and environment for each employee to realize their highest potential while maintaining a personalized focus on our Patients and Families every day. We are the Midwest's premier provider of Physician Services, Home Health, and Hospice Care. Our integrated care delivery model incorporates technology, innovation and best practices. We produce value based outcomes by managing chronic disease process, rehabilitation and end of life care.

We live a simple Mission: Serve Together, Provide Value, and Deliver Exceptional Quality Care.

What does this mean for you? At Optimal Care, you have our resolute commitment to being an exceptional place to work. Your expertise, passion and commitment to exceptional quality care will continue to thrive. With you we can build a remarkable place to work.

Exceptional Benefits:

• Minimum of 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Company Vehicle Program
• Mentorship Culture
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Cutting Edge Technology

Why You'll Enjoy Working with Us:

• Enjoy no weekends and flexible schedules that adapt to your lifestyle.
• Benefit from CME funding to stay at the forefront of your field.
• Experience fast and easy credentialing so you can begin making an impact sooner.
• Join a tight-knit community with collaboration and support.
• Build meaningful connections with both your team and your patients.
• Leverage back-office support staff to handle administrative tasks, allowing you to focus on patient care.
• Utilize our dedicated education department with full-time training staff.
• Start strong with a tailored onboarding process that meets you where you are, with a single point of contact.
• Collaborate with colleagues to advance population health initiatives
• Enjoy independent practice within a framework that values your expertise.
• Engage in weekly touchpoints with peers and management to stay connected and supported.
• Experience a limited patient census, allowing for meaningful time with your patients.
• Be part of a team that offers non-stereotypical healthcare, breaking away from the mold.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Lead will work in tandem with the Regional Practice Manager within the Practice Dyad to oversee the providers in the Practice. The Clinical Lead will be an expert within Physician Services EMR, internal operating systems and resources to achieve the quadruple aim. He/she will assist the Practice in delivering service where patients, families, referral sources and payor can "expect exceptional". In addition to the duties above, the Clinical Lead will also provide primary and/or specialty medical care in a variety of assisted living, home, sub-acute rehabilitation and long term care settings.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Expert within Physician Services EMR, internal operating systems, and resources.
• Resource for providers regarding nuances of different visit types, visit notes and care settings.
• Follows established service line rules and pathways.
• Shared responsibility with the Regional Practice Manager for productivity of the Practice provider group.
• Develop orientation plans in conjunction with Regional Practice Manager for newly hired providers.
• Oversee orientation for newly hired providers in conjunction with Regional Practice Manager.
• Assist Regional Practice Manager in facility relationship management to grow practice or assist with service recovery when needed.
• Provides steps to advance Practice Practitioners or works within the scope of the collaborative/Practice Agreement
• Ensures that organizational initiatives are implemented in a timely way throughout the Practice and that the Practice Dyad integrates improvement goals and programs into operations.

Required Qualifications

• State certification and degrees need to practice medicine as a Nurse Practitioner
• Current State License as a Nurse Practitioner
• 2 years clinical experience in a post-acute care setting
• Ability to practice medicine skills as defined by accepted licensures boards of Nurse Practitioner
• Demonstrates ability to assess and respond to the needs of patients, families and caregivers in post-acute care settings
• Demonstrates skill in practice of medicine, ability to cope with family emotional stress and tolerance of individual lifestyles
• Ability to handle multiple priorities, documentation requirements and deadlines

Desired Qualifications

• Management experience preferred

Location

• Office Location: one of the following:
  • Jackson, MI
  • Saginaw, MI
  • Maumee, OH
• Main Service Area: dependent on what location you're hired into

Hours

• 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday
• NO call or weekends

Pay Range

$110,000—$130,000 USD

Background Screening

Optimal Care conducts a background screening upon acceptance of a contingent job offer. Background screening is completed by a third-party administrator, the Michigan Long-Term Care Partnership, and is performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act.

Reasonable Accommodations

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Optimal Care is an equal-opportunity employer.