Home & Supportive Care Nurse Practitioner WellMed Medical Group

WellMed, part of the Optum family of businesses, is seeking a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to join our team in Austin TX. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Position Highlights:

• Practice with a multi-disciplinary team of heath care providers that includes Primary Care Physicians, RN Case Managers, social workers, and clinic staff
• Our model is designed to provide the most efficient, comprehensive, and proven care techniques to treat the whole patient – physically, mentally, and socially – at each visit
• Primarily manage care in the patient’s home; however, care may require an office or other facility setting depending on the needs of the patient
• Provide care for some of our sickest patients – patients whose needs are beyond what our care management and clinic-based resources can provide, but whom hospice services are not appropriate
• Diagnose and treats both acute and chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease and other chronic medical conditions
• Treat acute conditions such as minor injuries and other acute medical conditions such as infections or exacerbations of chronic diseases
• Facilitates patient and family decision making regarding treatment decisions, end of life care, and serious illness discussions
• Prescribes pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions

Required Qualifications:

• Certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), or the National Commission on Certification of (NCCPA)
• Current Licensure through the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners , or the ability to obtain one prior to employment
• Valid DEA license or the ability to obtain one prior to employment
• 1+ year of clinical experience as a Nurse Practitioner
• Comfortable managing a primarily Medicare-aged patient population
• Reliable transportation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Home health experience
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) fluency
• A working understanding and support of a managed care environment