RN Care Manager - Community Care Team, M-F schedule

Job Summary:

MaineGeneral Health is seeking a compassionate and skilled Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Community Care Team. In this role, you’ll partner with patients, families, healthcare providers, and community resources to improve the health and quality of life for those with the highest risk, highest cost, and highest utilization of health care services.

Job Description:

Position: Registered Nurse (RN)

Location: Ballard Center, Augusta
Schedule: Part-time (32 hours/week)

Shift:  Days, M-F

The Role:
As a Care Manager on the Community Care Team, you’ll work with individuals who face complex medical, behavioral, and social challenges. Many of these patients have frequent hospital or ER visits, and your mission will be to help them stabilize, stay healthier, and reduce avoidable utilization.

What You'll Do:

• Interviews and assesses patients and/or patients' family, caregivers, and/or legal representatives.
• Determines, prioritizes, provides, and/or arranges for needed internal and external services/interventions. Consults with multidisciplinary teams regularly to evaluate patients' status and appropriateness of medical care, including admission, length of stay, transfer, and discharge.
• Participates in discharge planning, including coordinating patient transfers to other facilities and coordinating community resources. Provides discharge education and resource referrals to patients.
• Performs chart review to identify actual or potential issues with service delivery, patient outcomes and satisfaction, compliance, cost, and reimbursement.

What You Bring:

• Active Registered Nurse license in the State of Maine (required)
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and advocacy skills
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to build trust and form supportive relationships with patients from diverse backgrounds
• State of Maine driver's license with an acceptable driving record

Why Join MaineGeneral?

• Competitive Pay that reflects your skills and experience
• Comprehensive Benefits – Health, dental, vision, and more.
• Work-Life Balance – Generous parental leave, ample earned time off, and employee discounts.
• Work hands-on in the community to create a real, lasting impact
• Financial Security – Up to 4% retirement contributions and potential student loan reimbursement.
• Career Growth – Opportunities to advance within our organization.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

Scheduled Work Shift:

Job Exempt:

No

Benefits

Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.

Physical Wellness:

• We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.
• Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.
• A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.

Emotional Wellness:

When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.

Financial Wellness:

• An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center.
• Loan Reimbursement is available for this position dependent upon current degree level.  Please discuss benefit with the recruiter.
• Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.
• We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.
• Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.
• We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for