Neuroscience Nurse Navigator Jobs

Job Summary
This Neuroscience Nurse Navigator will be responsible for:

• Advocating for patients to promote patient centered care that includes shared decision making and patient goals of care with improved access and patient experience outcomes.
• Guiding patients through the health care system and assisting to overcome barriers to care needs.
• Initiating communication with patients using various methodologies including patient portal, phone and mail
• Clinically triaging new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
• Educating patients and families regarding disease management and medications.
• Coordinating care with specialty and primary care practices to maximize efficient scheduling and clinical oversight for enhancement of the right services needed and matched with the right providers.
• Assisting with completion of prescriptions, school forms , medication and DME insurance authorizations, and other community networking resources and referrals
• Contacting patients for changes in clinical management.
• Providing oversight, delegation and act as a resource to unlicensed staff, including clinical assistants and patient experience representatives.
• Working with departmental physician, nursing and administrative leadership to optimize current systems and create new systems for effective and efficient new patient triage
• Providing ongoing care coordination between clinic visits by communicating with families, healthcare team members and other agencies involved.
• Assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and modifying plans of care for a specific patient assignment throughout the healthcare continuum.
• Bridging care across the continuum, including new patient calls and transition of care across care settings (inpatient to outpatient, ED to outpatient) and the community.
• Working 40 hours per week: either four 10 hour shifts or five 8 hour shifts Monday through Friday

To qualify, you must have:

• Strong telephone and technology navigation skills.
• At least 5 years of pediatric nursing experience in either inpatient or ambulatory setting, and at least 2 years of neurology and/or epilepsy experience preferred.
• Knowledge of pediatric complex, chronic and family centered care.
• BSN degree and CPN, CNRN or AMB-BC professional nursing certification.

Exciting opportunity to join the US News and World report number one neurology program in the country, and to learn from world leaders in our Pediatric Epilepsy Center of Excellence. Children from all over the world come to our center where we provide an emphasis on precision medicine, word-class genetic diagnostics, and translational research specific to children with epilepsy.

Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits including flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.