Patient Navigator Cerebral Palsy, Bone and Joint Service Line

Patient Navigator Cerebral Palsy

Position Highlights: 

• Shift Schedule: Full Time (40 hours)
• Department: Bone and Joint Service Line
• Location:  Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 

What We Offer: 

• Generous PTO: Accrue up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
• Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelors degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.
• Wellness Incentives: Take advantage of up to $1,350 per year in wellness incentives through our LiveWELL program, prioritizing your well-being.
• Parental Benefits: We understand the importance of family, providing six weeks of paid birthing-mother maternity leave and four weeks of paid parental leave.
• Retirement: Secure your financial future with up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions.

What Youll Do:  Guides patients through the healthcare system, establishing contact with patients, family members, and/or caregiver. Understands the clinical pathways established by the clinical specialty and directs patients to health care services in the organization and in the community for timely diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Actively identifies and addresses barriers to care that might keep the patient from receiving timely and appropriate treatment for specific diagnosis. Assists the patient and physicians in the transition from active treatment to continuing healthcare. 

1. Utilizes the nursing process to provide patient/family centered care focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs. This includes providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of WFBMC. 

2. Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles. Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes. Acts as a patient advocate throughout the continuum of care including all patient settings and in the community. 

3. Documents in accordance with departmental reporting standards. Collects and maintains up to date and accurate program data and documentation according to program standards. Delivers reports that demonstrate outcomes and performance improvement activities; adheres to established productivity benchmarks. 

4. Implements outreach efforts to establish and maintain positive working relationships with key community agencies, serves as community liaison and educator in underserved communities. 

5. Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model. This includes participating in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking. 

6. Communicates effectively to promote sharing of information throughout the continuum of care and as an effective member of the healthcare team. 

7. Responsible for ongoing evaluation and quality improvement of the Navigator Program and will track all activity as defined by the departmental and program standards. 

8. Works closely with community-based service providers to identify and address community needs for services and education regarding prevention and/or early detection, medications and first aid available. 

9. Provides age/developmentally appropriate patient care in accordance with Age-Specific guidelines for the specific age groups served. 

What Youll Need:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing, BSN required. 
• Minimum two years experience as a registered nurse in the specialty required. 
• Current licensure to practice as Registered Nurse in North Carolina. 
• Certification as an RN preferred. 
• BCLS required. 

The ideal candidate will also possess the following skills:

• Requires problem solving, decision making and critical thinking 
• Ability to work in a self-directed environment and with leading teams 
• Demonstrates ability to work in fast-paced environment with multiple interruptions 
• Expertise in MS Office 
• Ability to prepare program reports frequently and efficiently 
• Bilingual preference with fluency in Spanish desirable 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptists two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Childrens Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

Information :

• Company : Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
• Position : Patient Navigator Cerebral Palsy, Bone and Joint Service Line
• Location : Salem, NC
• Country : US