Nurse Practitioner -Telehealth Visits (NY)

WellBe Senior Medical was founded in 2019 to provide a more effective and personalized healthcare experience for patients living with chronic conditions. Our home-based medical visits nurture all aspects of a patient’s well-being so they can live better, feel healthier, and stay independent longer. With our mission at the forefront of everything we do, we aim to build our team with the most capable and compassionate individuals we can find. Named a Best Place to Work from Modern Healthcare, WellBe is a leading provider of in-home medical care and mental health services across the country!

What Telehealth - Nurse Practitioners Love About WellBe:

• $25,000 sign on bonus.
• Competitive salary and full benefits package. $120,000.00 - $140,000.00
• Meaningful, one-on-one care with your own patient panel.
• Mileage reimbursement

WellBe’s Culture is Welcoming:

• Be part of something important:
• Be part of pioneering a new way of healthcare that is revolutionizing the industry. 
• A patient-focused environment that ensures patients can live a fulfilling life whatever their health level is. Our focus is to give our patients more good days.
• Give yourself incredible opportunities:
• Work as part of a collaborative team with a strong team culture.
• Training in the WellBe model and team-based care. Full in-person orientation, vision, mission, and values introduction, and instilling cultural ideals.
• Empowerment and ownership for solving problems that arise and doing the right thing in each interaction.

Telehealth  – Nurse Practitioner Responsibilities:

• Will primarily support patients via a video-enabled telehealth platform while a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Certified Medical Assistant (MA) facilitates the visit in the patient’s home.
• Responsible for engaging attributed patients into WellBe program and supporting care needs and efforts to keep patients engaged.
• Facilitates staff, patient, and family decision-making by providing educational resources.
• Provides primary care to patients via video enabled telehealth platform, working closely with the LPN or MA in-home with the patient.
• Performs initial patient screenings/video-enabled physical examinations and creates appropriate assessment treatment and plan.
• Collaborates with community team to complete a full patient care assessment and plan.
• Orders, interprets, and analyzes diagnostic tests and determine the need for follow-up. appointments and further treatment options per state supervisory agreement.
• Prescribes and manage medications and treatments as appropriate, including but not limited to as psychopharmacological agents per state supervisory agreement.
• Updates patient records and check records for accuracy at each patient appointment.
• Delivers patient care and completes regular patient reviews with supervising physician per state supervisory agreement.
• Focuses clinical care delivery to support necessary items for documentation/coding, HEDIS measures, engagement of patients, and managing medical expenses.
• Utilizes all available resources to help care for patient needs and refers to internal/external resources as appropriate, such as WellBe behavioral health protocols.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and participate in regularly scheduled team meetings.
• Oher tasks needed to accomplish team’s objectives/goals.

Telehealth  – Nurse Practitioner Requirements:

• Minimum of Master’s Degree, Nursing with focus on Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Geriatric Nurse Practitioner or Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner from an accredited, Nurse Practitioner program (required)
• 5 years of progressive care experience required, experience in value based care (preferred)
• 1+ year delivering clinical care via video-enabled telemedicine
• Prior healthcare experience in areas of medical assistant, certified nursing assistant, EMT/paramedic, lab assistant, registered nurse, or similar health care related roles (preferred)
• Active, unencumbered Nurse Practitioner license in the state of job posting and must reside in state (required)
• Current board certification in your field with either ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center) or AANP (American Association of Nurse Practitioners) (required)
• BLS certified and an active NPI# as an NP (required)
• CPR certification (required)
• Active, unencumbered DEA licensure or eligibility to obtain (required)
• Previous experience in value-based care, home care, primary care, hospice, palliative care, or geriatrics strongly preferred, other complex patient health care experience also beneficial (preferred)
• Have a valid driver’s license, car insurance, have access to a car and willingness to drive to patient homes as site of care delivery
• Requires homes visits to patients in a variety of residential settings
• Requires proof of an active auto insurance policy (required)

Telehealth  – Nurse Practitioner  Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to conduct in- home setting visits and have previous experience on a telehealth platform
• Demonstrated role proficiency with Microsoft Office; Excel, Word, G-suite, etc.
• Proficient with office software, including Electronic Health Records, Scheduling Software and Ring Central applications
• Role model in courageous teamwork, integrity, ethics, and productivity
• Experience in diagnosing and treatment of ongoing, chronic and urgent medical/psychological conditions of older adults
• Experience in panel management, primary care, geriatrics, internal medicine, palliative care
• Experience in palliative care, and end-of-life communication
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• Confident speaker to internal and external groups
• Video-enabled telemedicine experience required.
• Ideal location Central Time zone to align with Wisconsin market time zone

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will have supervisory responsibility.

Travel requirements:  This position is primarily remote,  however, if a candidates resides in-market, there will be clinical circumstances that will necessitate seeing a patient in-person. If candidate resides outside of the market drive time (ie: in a different state), the position is 100% remote.

Work Conditions: Ability to lift up to 30 lbs.  Moving lifting or transferring of patients may involve lifting of up to 50lbs as well as assisting with weights of more than 100lbs.  Ability to stand for extended periods. Ability to drive to patient locations (ie. home, hospital, SNF, etc).  Fine motor skills/Visual acuity.