Transition Management Manager- Inpatient

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Position Summary:

The Inpatient Manager leads 30+ front line staff members of the Transition Management department and actively participates in supporting management functions including staff development and evaluation of clinical practice. The Manager develops and maintains standards of practice in accordance with evolving practice of case management, social work, and utilization management. Trends and reports avoidable days, RLOS, readmission and other metrics to ensure optimal performance. Effectively utilizes department Physician Advisors and Medical Directors (TMO & UM) to intervene when continued stay criteria are not met. Serves as resource to facilitate complex cases and escalate concerns and feedback to department Director/Vice President.

Department Summary:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is accepting applications for the Inpatient Manager role within our Transition Management Office (TMO). The TMO administrative office is located in Medical Center North, on campus serving VUMC. Transition management or commonly referred to as care coordination is a thriving department comprised of nurses, social workers, and support personnel. Currently there are 150 staff however the department has increased their staff needs to enhance the patient experience at Vanderbilt. The Vice President of TMO is Marcia Colone, Ph.D. who has over 25 years of experience in care management. Dr. Colone leads a team of experienced Directors and Team Leads who mentor, coach, and support staff within the coordination team.

Additional Key Elements/ Responsibilities:

• Ensures the department's optimal performance among their team by engaging in effective problem solving with inter professional staff, clinicians, patients and families.
• Responsible for team accountability to performance standards including quality, service, patient flow, communication and credo behavior. Interacts effectively with members of the health care team and ancillary departments to monitor and achieve quality patient outcomes.
• Supports the delivery of quality patient care by holding staff accountable to established patient care and regulatory standards.

The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Position Shift:

• Days

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

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Qualifications:

• Required - Master's Degree (or equivalent experience) and minimum 5 years relevant experience
  • Preferred: 3+ years of management experience
• Required- Case Management experience
• Required - Licensed Discipline Specific:
  • Registered Nurse or Licensed Master Social Worker or Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Advanced Practice Social Worker or Utilization Manager or Case Manager Case management certification (ACM-RN, ACM- SW, or CCM) within one year

Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:

Medium Work category requiring exertion up to 50lbs of force occasionally and/or up to 20 of force frequently and/or up to 10 of force continually to move objects.

Movement:

• Occasional: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
• Occasional: Walking: Moving about on foot.
• Occasional: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
• Occasional: Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with help of coworkers or assistive device
• Occasional: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
• Occasional: Carrying over 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
• Occasional: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.
• Occasional: Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles
• Occasional: Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self, patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and small spaces
• Occasional: Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Occasional: Crawling:Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Occasional: Kneeling:Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees.
• Occasional: Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
• Occasional: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
• Occasional: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
• Occasional: Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands.
• Occasional: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
• Occasional: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.

Sensory:

• Frequent: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.
• Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
• Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
• Continuous: Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.
• Continuous: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.
• Continuous: Taste: Ability to detect quality, texture, consistency and taste of prepared foods/quality control.

Environmental Conditions:

• Occasional: Chemicals and Gasses: Medications, cleaning chemicals, oxygen, other medical gases used in work area.
• Occasional: Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other contagious illnesses.

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