Home Health Scheduler

Company: Brookdale Senior Living
Location: Gainesville
Posted on: January 12, 2022

Job Description:

Overview

Make Lives Better Including Your Own.

Nurse on Call - Home Healthcare by Brookdale, is a Medicare certified agency providing home healthcare services. We take pride in our strong reputation for furnishing the high quality skilled nursing, rehabilitation and related services that our patients and their families and physicians expect and deserve. We enrich lives every day. Every day is an opportunity for our associates to deeply connect with people in a profound and personal way. Our associates are the core of our mission and we know that offering them genuine rewards and heart filling job satisfaction is the key to our success as a company. Here you'll find opportunities to grow your career at any level whether you have direct contact with resident or support someone who does, and be inspired personally. With over 60,000 associates, there's a place for you to make a difference in lives of the families we serve throughout our continuum of care.

The happiness of those we serve is dependent on the happiness of our associates, so you'll receive competitive compensation and a benefits package with additional perks designed to make you smile. The work you do will be challenging yet rewarding. But you'll earn more than a paycheck; you can enjoy opportunities to grow your career, as well as ongoing programs catered to your health, financial, mental, and emotional needs. Most of all, we believe you can find purpose, meaning, and the chance to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

Veterans, transitioning active duty military personnel, and military spouses are encouraged to apply.

We believe that in order to best serve our residents and patients, we need to first serve our associates. One way we do that is through our benefits. Our offerings include, but are not limited to:

**Full-time and part-time associate benefits:**

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Benefit plan package

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

Associate Compassion Fund

Associate Discounts

Identity theft protection

Pet savings and insurance plans

Voluntary benefits available

**Full-time associate benefits:**

Extensive Insurance Plans, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, health savings account and more.

Paid Time Off

Adoption Benefit

Tuition Reimbursement

Company-provided life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D)

Voluntary STD and LTD

**Responsibilities**

Ensures all clinical visits needed are appropriately scheduled to meet the agency's patient care and service needs and in accordance with physician's orders, agency standards and regulatory requirements. Tracks and provides feedback to the Clinical Services Manager when scheduled visits are missed.

1. Coordinates the scheduling of clinical visits for care team in compliance with physician approved orders and clinician plotted visits approved by Clinical Services Manager. Ensures compliance with the schedule. Communicates any requests to change the schedule to the Clinical Services Manager and, once approved, reschedules missed or declined visits.

2. Assists clinicians with assuring all visits are properly assigned and scheduled on Electronic Medical Record (EMR) devices.

3. Maintains on-call schedule for assigned care team. Responsible for contacting PRN associates according to established protocol to ensure adequate scheduling of services to meet patient needs.

4. Responsible for monitoring and scheduling home health therapy reassessment visits to meet home health reassessment requirements.

5. Facilitates compliance in the electronic medical record for notices provided to the patient or responsible party (e.g. Notices of Medicare Non-Coverage) in a timely manner.

6. Assures compliance with, and facilitates completion of, service agreements from patient(s) and/or power of attorney(ies) receiving services from the agency.

7. Fields all calls related to the assigned team patients and routes to appropriate care team members.

8. Keeps the Clinical Services Manager informed on aspects within the care team specific to EMR scheduling workflow.

9. Prepares reports for scheduling tracking and participates in agency meetings to ensure patient and associate scheduling needs are met.

10. Maintains positive relationships and rapport with co-workers, associates, patients, and their family members and community personnel.

11. Adheres to communication and accountability guidelines established by local and regional administration.

12. Maintains a safe and clean work area and adheres to agency safety standards.

13. Adheres to established confidentiality standards as required by Brookdale and HIPAA concerning community and patient information.

_This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor._

**Qualifications**

**Education and Experience**

High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) required. Prefer one year experience scheduling and working with older adults or in a related healthcare setting.

**Certifications, Licenses, and Other Special Requirements**

None

**Management/Decision Making**

Uses limited independent judgment to make decisions based on precedents and established guidelines. Solves problems using standard procedures and precedents. Knows when to refer issues to supervisor and when to handle them personally.

**Knowledge and Skills**

Has a working knowledge of a skill or discipline that requires basic analytic ability. Has an overall understanding of the work environment and process. Has working knowledge of the organization. Must have knowledge and working capability of PCs, including Microsoft Word and Excel.

**Physical Demands and Working Conditions**

+ Standing

+ Walking

+ Sitting

+ Use hands and fingers to handle or feel

+ Reach with hands and arms

+ Climb or balance

+ Talk or hear

+ Ability to lift: up to 50 pounds

+ Vision

+ Requires interaction with co-workers, residents or vendors

+ Occasional weekend, evening or night work if needed to ensure shift coverage

+ On-Call on an as needed basis

+ Requires Travel: Occasionally

Brookdale is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.

**Schedule: Regular Full-Time**

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