Overview

**$2,000 Sign On Bonus**

Case Management Extender - Community Behavioral Health

1.0FTE, 40 hours per week

Full-time benefits. 

Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm

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The Case Management Extender PFK helps navigate and access community services and other resources and provides support through maintaining population health programs and care coordination activities. The Case Management Extender collaborates to arrange for or connect patients to needed services and identifies, creates, and nurtures relationships with local agencies, schools, churches, and other programs. Case Management Extenders are patient and family facing with daily activities during inpatient stays, outpatient specialty clinic visits, emergency room visits, home, community visits, and via telephone.

Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?

The moment you walk through our doors, you feel it. When you meet our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it. Welcome to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Where Passion Meets Purpose.

Here, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission.

We’re 14,000 strong. And it takes every one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids around the world we’ll never meet. Kids who live healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere.

Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children’s badge what they do for a living. They’ll tell you it’s More Than a Job. It’s a calling. It’s a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Place to Be Proud.

Responsibilities

The Case Management Extender (CMX) functions as a member of an interdisciplinary team and provides care coordination services to patients and their families including:

• Screening and identification of patients (Occasionally)
• Outreach to primary care physicians, specialty physicians and other service providers to identify patients in need of care coordination (Frequently)
• Assisting Care Coordinator with the development of family-centered plan of care (Occasionally)
• Facilitating communication and collaboration amongst the healthcare team (Frequently)
• Developing patient's/family self-management skills through education and resource provision (Continuously)
• Performs ad hoc tasks as directed by Care Coordinator (Frequently)
• Managing transitions between settings, caregivers and providers (Frequently)
• Monitoring and follow-up across the continuum of care (Continuously)
• Participates in orientation and continuing education of staff and students as appropriate (Frequently)

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree preferred, with background in health care, public health, or related clinical field a plus.

LICENSURE:

Valid driver's license, good driving record and proof of auto insurance required (required to do home visits in 34 county area)

CERTIFICATIONS:

Active BLS certification

SKILLS:

Working knowledge of Medicaid and other regulatory agency standards.

EXPERIENCE:

Preferred experience working in healthcare in a patient facing role. Driving of personal vehicle is required. Care is often provided in patient homes.

MINIMUM PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bend/twist; squat/kneel; climb stairs/ladder; reaching above shoulder; lifting/carrying 0-20lbs; pushing/pulling 0-25lbs; work enviornment may include contact with communicable diseases and/or pathogens/patient equipment/machinery/electricity: OCCASIONALLY - 1-33% of the time.
• Standing/walking; driving; vision: depth perception/color vision/peripheral vision - FREQUENTLY - 34-66% of the time.
• Sitting; flexing/extending of neck; repetitive hand/arm use; computer skills; audible speech/hearing acuity; seeing - far/near; problem solving/decision making/interpreting data - CONTINUOUSLY - 67-100% of the time.

Note: Regular, reliable and consistent attendance is an essential job function. Employees are expected to perform work as scheduled. Please see the physical requirements for this position listed below.The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision.

EOE M/F/Disability/Vet

**Sign on bonus is available to new-to-NCH employees only.