Nurse Practitioner - Complex Care - Akron And Canton, OH - Optum, A UnitedHealth Group Company, Full

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

What makes your clinical career greater with UnitedHealth Group? You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care system. You can work with in an incredible team culture; a clinical and business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day. And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere.
 

Serving millions of Medicare and Medicaid patients, Optum is the nation’s largest health and wellness business and a vibrant, growing member of the UnitedHealth Group family. We’re also the career home for Nurse Practitioners who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day.

Get better informed to determine your fit into this position. Click here to view the Realistic Job Preview: Optum_Complex_Care_NP_RJP.pdf.

 

Join our exceptional Complex Care Nurse Practitioner team in the Ohio market.  As a Complex Care Nurse Practitioner you will provide primary care to a caseload of patients in long term care settings. This excellent opportunity affords a flexible autonomous role bringing enormous satisfaction in the care and comfort of our aging population.  Additionally, you will build meaningful relationships with the residents and their families. 

 

Listen to our NPs describe their work in Complex Care: http://bit.ly/NPVideo

 

  

Key responsibilities of our Nurse Practitioners include:

  • Providing preventative and primary care for patients in assigned long term care facilities
  • Working with primary care physicians to provide the best care possible
  • Collaborating with the nursing staff and the patients' families
  • An opportunity to learn palliative care is offered with Optum ComplexCare
  • Working with the facility's utilization review process
  • Attend monthly clinical team meetings

 

  • Current, unrestricted NP license in the State of Ohio (or reciprocity)
  • DEA License or ability to obtain
  • Nurse Practitioner national certification as ANP, FNP, or GNP required or ability to obtain.
  • A clinical background in adult, family or geriatric specialties 
  • Past experience working in a nursing home or with seniors in other settings
  • Intermediate level of proficiency in PC based word processing including Microsoft Word and Outlook
  • Valid driver's license, reliable transportation, and current automobile insurance 


Optum Complex Care is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

If you want more meaning in your career - as a clinician or a business professional - think of Optum as your calling.

By providing 58 million Americans with information, tools and solutions, we are helping to guide them through the health care system, financing their health care needs, and enabling them to achieve their personal health and well-being goals.

At Optum, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.



Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.



Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.



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