RN Navigator Breast Care Optum Cancer Care

$10, Sign-on Bonus for External Candidates

Optum NV is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in Las Vegas, NV. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives.

Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim.

We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring.

Connecting. Growing together.

Nurse Navigators are a requirement for all Breast Centers according to the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers standard 2.

2. The OptumCare Nurse Navigator acts as a case manager, navigator, and educator who serves as a consistent care coordinator throughout the continuum of care assessing the physical, psychological and social needs of our patients.

Our nurse navigators serve as a single point of contact for referring physicians, patients, and caregivers to provide resources and assistance with accessing clinical and supportive care services offered within OptumCare and Network providers.

They focus on achieving the outcomes within effective and realistic time frames. They will monitor the patient and triage needed services across all product or service lines while ensuring proper access to these services.

In addition, they will extend services to help the family learn care-giving skills and patient self-care skills. Our nurse navigators help enhance patient outcomes, increased satisfaction and reduced costs of care.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Need to be proficiently knowledgeable about breast diseases
• Facilitate patient appointments, including those made with labs, diagnostic modalities, and specialty physicians
• Coordinate multidisciplinary planning conferences, collect patient information for use by the care team, and document recommendations made by leadership utilizing standardized care protocols in accordance with nationally recognized care guidelines
• Assist in developing patient education programs and tools
• Need to be a provider of educational information and support to all women concerned about their breast health
• Facilitate physicians’ recommendations for patient care to help ensure patient compliance and understanding
• Provide professional guidance in coordination, execution and evaluation of patient healthcare treatment plans
• Addresses patients’ unmet needs and enhances patients’ satisfaction by responding to the patient requests; providing information and support during illness
• Assess patients to help identify high-risk patients (physical, psychological and social)
• Help navigate and educate patients through survivorship
• Assist in planning healthcare pathways with multidisciplinary care team
• Be an educator for other medical personnel in understanding benign and malignant diseases, their treatment and the patient’s emotional and social recovery from the disease
• Work with cancer registry staff and others to collect data, track outcomes, and support strategic planning processes

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 :

• Active NV Licensed RN
• Computer literate; Microsoft Office competency

Preferred Qualifications :

• BSN, and OCN
• Experience in breast cancer / women’s health
• Proven excellent leadership, organizational, written, and verbal communication and excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a self-directed environment, with an ability to work with and lead teams
• Proven excellent presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to implement professional and community based education programs
• Problem solving, decision making and critical thinking

Skills :

• Able to assess and interpret customer needs and requirements
• Able to identify solutions to non-standard requests and problems
• Able to solve moderately complex problems and / or conducts moderately complex analyses
• Work with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
• Translate concepts into practice
• Provide explanations and information to others on difficult issues
• Coaches, provides feedback, and guides others
• Acts as a resource for others with less experience
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills with patients, staff, and other healthcare professionals
• Compassionate and empathetic
• Customer focused and dependable
• Know how to schedule patients
• Experience working in an EHR and how to work through delegated tasking and tracking system
• Able to work in a fast paced environment
• Have critical thinking skills, a positive attitude, and able to multi-task
• Know how to take patient vitals and prepare patient charts

Nevada Residents Only : The hourly range for this role is $28.03 to $54.95 per hour. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc.

UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere : OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers 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.

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