Join the Cleveland Clinic West Palm Beach team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. You will work alongside dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

As a Care Coordinator, you will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary caregivers across the continuum of care to provide coordination of care and disease management longitudinally to patients with chronic condition(s). You will work to ensure patient concerns are appropriately triaged to facilitate timely resolution and provider involvement when necessary. Ultimately, your efforts will focus on enhancing treatment outcomes and decreasing future Emergency Department visits for your patients. On this team, you will learn something new every day, grow in your field, and gain access to numerous professional development resources.

This is a regular PRN position, with caregivers working days between 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with on-call, weekend and holiday requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary care team across the continuum of care for high-risk patients to develop goals, plan interventions and maximize patient outcomes.

• Provide care and disease management coordination.

• Identify patients in the specialty care practice that have ongoing coordination needs and conduct targeted outreach.

• Outline the nature and duration of involvement needed by the specialty care team and specialty care coordinator and identify the primary care team involved.

• Utilize assessment skills and risk assessment tools to identify patients with actual or potential care needs that would require care coordination.

• Utilize technological tools (registries, patient lists, care team tab, etc.) to manage populations.

• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments that include disease-specific, age-specific, medical, behavioral, pharmacy, social and end of life needs of each patient.

• Inform and work with patients and their families regarding coordination of their care, provide education and coaching, monitor patient compliance with their care plan, perform reassessments regarding patient progress toward goals and update plan of care.

• Serve as a liaison and advocate for patients and families.

• Assist in managing transitions of care across care settings, ensuring optimal communication and planning.

• Identify barriers, facilitate solutions and connect others to community resources.

• Partner with other care coordinator teams such as primary and transitional care social work, rehabilitation, pharmacy, palliative care and others.

• Define and ensure compliance with disease-specific care paths for specialty care or chronic disease.

• Coach patient and family on self-management support.

• Educate about managing a specialty or surgical condition (inclusive of preoperative, perioperative, postoperative and recovery) inclusive of prevention and health maintenance tasks.

• Educate and connect to other care providers and community resources to enhance care.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of Professional Nursing

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross

• Three to five years of nursing experience

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN)

• Specialty certification

• Outpatient and/or Emergency Department experience

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) Certification

• Care coordination experience

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.

• May require some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.

• Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

Pay Range

Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.