Field Assessor Nurse Jobs

Position Description

Position: Field Assessor RN

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for face-to-face assessments of vulnerable populations for various clients. Persons being assessed reside in the community or in facilities. The incumbent may also complete review decisions regarding services needed for the person(s) to be successful in the community. This position will also conduct training of new assessors and quality assurance competency reviews as assigned.

Essential Functions:

1. 35% Performs face-to-face assessments of persons with disabilities. Collaborates with health care providers and ancillary service providers to create or validate the appropriate treatment plan.

2. 25% Documents assessment results for the individual member status or negotiates service plan as needed.

3. 20% Completes quality assurance competency reviews and other tasks/projects as assigned such as new assessor training.

4. 15% Provides ongoing education. May communicate with all health care providers to ensure appropriateness of care.

5. 5% Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Two or four-year degree or master’s degree in a health care or related field and minimum three years of experience in working with persons with disabilities.

Some contracts may require a Registered Nurse (RN) with a current and unrestricted state license; or Licensure at the independent level in a health-related field.

Active contact specific required certifications for the assessments and/or quality assurance and training activities being completed.

Additional Comments:

This may be a home-based position that will primarily travel to cover a geographic area. As business needs and assessment volumes vary, additional travel outside of the primary geographic area may be required.

Experience in human services and with working with individuals who have disabilities is strongly preferred. Positions working on specific contracts may require valid driver’s license, first aid/CPR certification, and up to 95% local and overnight travel.

Physical Demands

• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

• 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 to move objects.

• Ability to travel daily and spend prolonged periods in a vehicle.

• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Work Environment:

Sensitivity level of information handled in position: Moderate.

Noise level is moderate.

This position description covers the major purpose and essential functions of the position. It is not intended to give all the details or a step by step account of the way each task is to be performed. Employees may receive other job related instructions and be required to perform other job related functions requested by management. All requirements are subject to possible modification to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is subject to change at any time. Our Client and its affiliates are Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employers