Your Role on the Team

Position Summary:
Provides care coordination for transitions across the continuum of inpatient, outpatient, surgical and invasive procedural settings. Assists with collection of data necessary to support the patient safety and performance improvement plan and progress toward established performance measures. Works as a clinician to support high quality, timely care delivery. Acts a resource across the Medical Center relative to cardiac and vascular surgical patient care.

What It Takes to be Successful

Required Qualifications:

Strong written, oral communication, as well as effective problem solving and negotiation skills

Resourcefulness to identify and search for information that is not readily available and ability to synthesize to form recommendations

Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties

Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job

Minimum 2 years' experience in quality, patient safety, infection control, or performance improvement methodologies (includes educational experience, if applicable)

Experience working with Cardiovascular surgical patients

Experience coordinating care for patients with complicated medical diagnosis

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Current California RN license

Current BLS certification

Computer familiarity using Word, Outlook and Excel, or similar database software

All external candidates must have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System

Ability to design and implement patient and family education programs

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of University and medical center organizations, policies, procedures and forms

Total Rewards

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.

Conditions of Employment:

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

• Background Check and Live Scan
• Employment Misconduct*
• Legal Right to Work in the United States
• Vaccination Policies
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy
• Drug Free Environment

*Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.

• California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
• E-Verify
• Pre-Placement Health Evaluation

Details of each policy may be reviewed by visiting the following page: https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/conditions-of-employment.php

Consideration for Work Authorization Sponsorship

Must be able to provide proof of work authorization