Facility: Cancer Center

City Chula Vista

Department

Job Status

Regular

Shift

Day

FTE

1

Shift Start Time

Shift End Time

Certified Case Manager (CCM) - Commission for Case Manager Certification; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association; California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; Master's Degree in Nursing; Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Hours :

Shift Start Time:

Variable

Shift End Time:

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$51.877 - $66.938 - $81.999

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

The Clinical Case Manager's (CCM) role is to be a patient advocate providing patients and their families with a point of care approach, and guiding them through the healthcare system providing information regarding services, education, funding and access to care. The Case Manager ensures service access and meets community care needs through quality assessment, triage, service delivery, and care coordination of clinical services between key external constituencies and Sharp. To represent the Sharp Health Care continuum to the public and health care community improving service linkages, maximizing care continuity and satisfaction. To support the Sharp HealthCare system in multi-service referral, program development, and quality care management. The CCM will develop strong relationships with physicians, their office staff, community clinics and healthcare providers to assure that there are multiple options for patients and are provided excellent care. The Clinical Case Manager will be responsible for collecting data regarding patient referrals, quality outcomes and reporting to oversight committees and organizations. The primary purpose of the CCM is to reduce anxiety and frustration with coordinating care and improve patient satisfaction with the health care systems. The Case Manager will facilitate more efficient and cost effective use of health care resources.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

• 3 Years acute care clinical experience in area of specialty.

• Previous clinical experience with cancer care, case management or patient teaching.

• Experience facilitating the design, implementation and evaluation of health care promotion programs and/or community development.

• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED

• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing

• Certified Case Manager (CCM) - Commission for Case Manager Certification -PREFERRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced clinical skills and in depth knowledge in area of expertise.

• Able to be innovative and creative in order to develop strategies that successfully meet the needs of diverse patient, family and provider populations.

• Demonstrate competence in team building, conflict management and interpersonal effectiveness.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills building relationships with physicians.

• Understanding of performance improvements and research methodologies.

• Excellent computer application skills and database management.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills required.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.