Optimal Care is where your dedication meets a rewarding career.
As a clinician owned and operated company, we create the opportunity and environment for each employee to realize their highest potential while maintaining a personalized focus on our Patients and Families every day. We are the Midwest's premier provider of Physician Services, Home Health, and Hospice Care. Our integrated care delivery model incorporates technology, innovation and best practices. We produce value based outcomes by managing chronic disease process, rehabilitation and end of life care.
We live a simple Mission: Serve Together, Provide Value, and Deliver Exceptional Quality Care.
What does this mean for you? At Optimal Care, you have our resolute commitment to being an exceptional place to work. Your expertise, passion and commitment to exceptional quality care will continue to thrive. With you we can build a remarkable place to work.
Exceptional Benefits:
- Minimum of 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Company Vehicle Program
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Mentorship Culture
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Cutting Edge Technology
Why Join Us as an After-Hours Registered Nurse?
- Start and finish your shift at home, working on-call for 7 nights in a row (5pm-8am,) Monday-Sunday and then enjoy the next 7 days completely off. This schedule means you only work 26 weeks per year while being paid a full-time salary—giving you half the year off with full-time pay.
- Unlike many other roles, there are no additional on-call requirements. Your schedule is set, so you can plan your personal life with confidence.
- Our territories are optimized to ensure manageable drive times, so we can meet the specialized and urgent needs of our patient.
- This schedule provides more dedicated time at home, making it ideal for individuals who want to spend more quality time with their loved ones. With 7 days off in a row, you'll have more time for yourself and your family.
- Enjoy competitive base wages up to 90K (based on experience), comprehensive health benefits, and a 401(k)-retirement plan.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting patient care needs after-hours, including urgent admissions, symptom management, and other patient needs. Think of a triage/emergency room nurse for hospice patients’ after-hours in homes, facilities, and residential care communities in your neighborhood.
- Providing positive, supportive communication to physicians, NPs, our hospice case managers, patients, and families.
In this role, you will?not?be responsible for:
- Triaging of patients, our after-hours RNs are supported by our triage team who dispatch our RNs only when an in-person visit is required.
- An assigned “Case Load” of patients requiring a “Case Manager”
- On-going management of hospice patients. You will be working as a “emergency room” nurse for hospice patients, in your community.
Required Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited Diploma, Associate, Baccalaureate, or Masters Degree in Nursing.
- Current State License as a Registered Nurse
- Ability to assess and respond to the needs of patients, families, and caregivers in varied settings and to function effectively in the home or nursing facility environment
- Skill in nursing practice, ability to cope with ill, disabled, terminal patients, family emotional stress, and tolerance of individual lifestyles
- Ability to critical think and prioritize the needs of multiple patients.
- Reliable transportation and valid automobile insurance coverage
- Ability to sit, stand, bend, lift, and move intermittently
- Ability to lift at least 35 lbs. and bear the weight of an average adult effectively
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics, hospice or home health environment preferred
- Familiarity with Home Care Home Base (HCHB) is a plus.
Location
- Office Location:? 4760 Fashion Square Blvd, Saginaw, MI 48604
- Main Service Area: Saginaw and surrounding areas
Hours
- On for 7 days, then off for the next 7 days
- 5:00 pm – 8:00 am, Monday through Sunday
Background Screening
Optimal Care conducts a background screening upon acceptance of a contingent job offer. Background screening is completed by a third-party administrator, the Michigan Long-Term Care Partnership, and is performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act.
Reasonable Accommodations
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Optimal Care is an equal-opportunity employer.
