Manager Clinical Ops and Support- CHOICES

BCBST is seeking a passionate healthcare leader looking to make an impact within the CHOICES program as a Field-Based Clinical Operations Model. 

In this position, you would play a pivotal role in ensuring an integrated model of care throughout the CHOICES program.

In this role, you will:

• Manage the field-based clinical operations for care coordination, interfacing with TennCare, network providers, Medical Directors, and other departments.
• Provide oversight and monitor cost, utilization, and quality of care trends, identifying opportunities to reduce administrative costs and ensuring HCBS services are allocated appropriately while maintaining accreditation standards.
• Oversee all care coordination staff across the state, including 156 care coordinators, 12 supervisors, and 4 regional managers.

You will be a great match for this role if in addition to the qualifications, you have experience leading large teams and managing large-scale initiatives.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborates on internal policy and procedure development, implementation and revisions to meet state and regulatory compliance standards relating to care coordination services, utilization management, continuum of care, and transitional/discharge planning initiatives
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external business partners, working closely to support members needs
• Manages the field-based clinical operations for care coordination; interfaces and represents BlueCare with TennCare, network providers, Medical Directors, and other departments to ensure an integrated model of care.
• Monitors cost, utilization, and quality of care trends; identifies opportunities to reduce costs or improve quality of care and collaborates with quality improvement area to implement and manage clinical quality improvement strategies, and maintain accreditation standards.
• 40-60 % travel required.

Job Qualifications

Licensure:

• Registered nurse with an active license in the state of Tennessee or hold a license in the state of their residence if the state is participating in the Nurse Licensure Compact Act; or Masters prepared licensed Social Worker

Experience

• 5 years - Proven leadership/management experience
• 5 years - Experience in clinical operations, quality improvement/assurance, or highly technical process improvements, and/or business process engineering required.
• 3 years - Experience providing care coordination to persons receiving long-term care and/or home and community based services required

Skills/ Certifications

• Ability to conduct root cause analysis, plan, organize and coordinate multiple projects
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Strong strategic planning, analytical and decision-making skills
• Ability to speak in public and conduct effective presentations.

Supervision of 6 Regional CHOICE Managers

Number of Openings Available:

1

Worker Type:

Employee

Company:

VSHP Volunteer State Health Plan, Inc

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