Nurse Practitioner, Senior Community Care - Cleveland, OH

$10,000 Sign-on Bonus for External Candidates

Optum Home & Community Care, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is creating something new in health care. We are uniting industry-leading solutions to build an integrated care model that holistically addresses an individual’s physical, mental and social needs – helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere.

As a team member of our Senior Community Care (SCC) product, we work with a team to provide care to patients at home in a nursing home, assisted living for senior housing. This life-changing work adds a layer of support to improve access to care.

We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across care settings. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This role is within our Patient Connect program. Optum Complex Care Management provides the Patient Connect Program for United Healthcare members in a short stay/transitional setting with focus on reduction in 30-day hospital readmissions, improved completeness and coding accuracy of diagnosis and medical record documentation, increased closure of STAR/HEDIS quality measures, improved completion rates of Advanced Care Planning Directives, and improved patient and family satisfaction and discharge and post discharge support. This is an autonomous role that creates enormous satisfaction for the NP as you impact the care and support of our population.

Primary Responsibilities:

• The Optum practitioner will provide a one-time comprehensive health assessment for the member in collaboration with the case management team to support better care coordination and health outcomes


• Work with primary care physicians to provide the best care possible


• Collaborate with the nursing staff and the patients' families


• Collaboration with case management team


• Documentation, coding and gap closure


• APC will also be cross trained to see our long term care ISNP members


• In addition, you may be asked to help with our ISNP program which is providing primary care to patients in long term care settings.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Current, unrestricted NP license in the state of assignment or the ability to obtain


• Ability to obtain DEA licensure/Prescriptive Authority post-hire in states where applicable


• Nurse Practitioner national certification as ANP, FNP, or GNP required or the ability to obtain

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of hands on post grad experience within Long Term Care


• Experience in short term care/rehab


• Clinical background in adult, family or geriatric specialties


• Experience working in a nursing home or with seniors in other settings


• Intermediate level of proficiency in PC based word processing including Microsoft Word and Outlook

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.