What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse - Care Coordinator - PER_DIEM - 12 Hour Flex Nights/Evenings position at Cedars-Sinai Health System?
Make a difference every single day
At Cedars-Sinai, we’re motivated by a spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals—and now we invite you to join us! From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have everything you need to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others!
Cedars-Sinai's Emergency Department ( ED), with 60 patient beds, is a Level I Trauma Center, Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, Level III Geriatric Care ED, STEMI Receiving Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center and Paramedic Base Station. The ED is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week available to all people in need.
The ED Care Coordinator is a non-clinical team member skilled at engaging with patients and family during and after their ED visit, working with the ED’s clinical care team to enhance patient-centered care and outcomes following ED discharge.
As an ED Care Coordinator you will function as a member of the care coordination team and perform the following tasks:
- Demonstrate Cedars-Sinai’s core values of respect, compassion and commitment to excellence in patient care through teamwork and collaboration.
- Patient advocacy through engagement, outreach, and providing linkage to resources.
- Educate and connect patient to medical home, facilitate post-discharge appointments, and medication or other at-home needs through social service providers.
- Assist patients and families with navigating community programs and services.
- Help patients access their health insurance, meet their social services needs, and follow-up on appointments.
- Work with area primary care and psychiatric clinics and providers to link patients with medical or psychiatric needs.
- Work with internal and external team members and organizations to ensure a coordinated outreach approach.
- Develop and maintain positive productive working relationships with health care providers and community-based services (e.g. mental health and substance abuse programs, community-based case management, and other support services).
- Maintain program records, reports and data.
- Follow up with patients to ensure they received the care and services recommended by the ED.
- Attend meetings as required and participate on committees as directed.
- Meet regularly with Emergency Department Co-Chair(s)
**** THIS IS A FLEX POSITION FOR BOTH EVENINGS AND NIGHTS ****