Registered Nurse (RN)-Acute Care - Care Coordination Team Lead - FT Days

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Care Coordination Daytime Team Lead (RN FT Days - Cobb Hospital.

About the Facility

Learn more about Wellstar Cobb Hospital, including our teams, culture and campus environment:

https://www.wellstar.org/locations/hospital/cobb-medical-center

Hours: FT Days

Shift: M-F 8-5pm or 8:30-5:30pm

Onsite interview

The Care Coordination Team Lead (CC TL) is responsible for development and mentoring of a care coordination team.

The CC TL's function is to support the care coordinators and leadership team during the patient's acute hospitalization or in the ambulatory case management program, working with acute, chronic and long-term stages of illness for a defined patient population.

The role includes critical patient assessment, transitional care planning, discharge planning, physical and psychosocial assessment, patient advocacy, education of the patient /family and monitoring quality indicators to demonstrate outcomes for the team resulting from the service provided.

The CC TL collaborates with interdisciplinary care team to provide a comprehensive assessment of the patient's plan of care, goal/outcome fulfillment and continued care needs.

The CC TL provides hands on support to the team in their assigned area and is the first point of contact for team members.

The CC TL may have responsibility for training new hires, overseeing floor / area workflow, and facilitate coverage for staff schedule.

Additionally, the CC TL may be required to work on process improvement projects with leaders, as well as, pulling data and metrics based on the team's performance to update dashboards and visual management lanes in the department

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions

% TIME Assessment • Initiates assessment for necessity and appropriateness of health services by the application of established screening criteria.

Factors assessed include support system, psychological, functional, socioeconomic, and cultural needs.

•Assesses insurance and coverage i...