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The Care Manager- Discharge Planner is a core member of the hospital care team and leads discharge planning through full partnerships with caregivers, internal and external providers/customers, and patients and their families and communities. This role contributes to the transformation of the health care system into one that meets the demands for safety, quality, patient-centered and affordable care. This position is responsible and accountable for coordinating the interdisciplinary process that occurs throughout the continuum of care to ensure care coordination, communication and collaboration with patients, families, providers, ancillary services and community partners in order to achieve goals and maximize positive patient outcomes based upon individual assessments of patients' needs. Discharge planning will begin at the time of (and prior) admission, and reassessed during hospitalization. Concurrently intervenes to enhance patient quality outcomes and serves as a patient advocate.\nThis position is Per Diem (FT/PT options available).\nCopley Hospital has a variety of shifts available across Full-Time, Part-Time, and Per Diem needs. Please consider applying to discuss how your availability may align.\nCompensation: $33-37/hour.\nThe posted salary range reflects compensation for candidates with limited experience. An offer may vary based on factors such as experience, education, skills, internal equity, and market data. An offer of employment may be outside of the posted range based on those factors.\nResponsibilities\nDischarge Planning\nLeads the discharge planning process which links the patient-family with the appropriate institutional or community resources post discharge and starts at time of admission or prior to planned hospitalization or surgeries.\nUtilizes Key Elements for Evidenced -Based Discharge Planning:\nInclude Patient and Family as full partners in the Discharge process\nDiscuss with Patients and family the five key areas to prevent problems at homesDescribes what life at home will be like after discharge\nReview medications\nHigh light warning signs and problems\nExplain the plan of care including test results\nMake follow- up appointments\n\nEducate patient and family using plain language about the patient’s condition, the discharge process and next steps in the patients care plan.\nAssess how well doctors and nurses explain: diagnosis, condition, and next steps in the patients care to the patients and family using teach back strategies.\nListens to and honors the patients and families goals, preferences observations and concerns.\nSupports the Care Management/Utilization Review Roles and Functions\nCase Management: Serve as a clinical resource. Contribute clinical knowledge and expertise to facilitate the attainment of the agreed upon goals of care.\nCollaborate with insurance companies, Social work, and other hospital departments when patient care needs exceed health benefit coverage limitations to negotiate and provide for patient care needs.\n\nPatients will be assessed to determine appropriateness of admission, use of observation status, continued hospitalization. and placed in appropriate level of care. Maintain knowledge of Medicare-Medicaid guidelines and coding specifics. Communicate with physicians to ensure compliance with Guidelines.\n\nCommunicate with third party payers and insurance companies. Provide clinical information, including patient status, plan of care and discharge disposition as requested.\n\nUtilizes MCG, Intensity of Service, and Severity of Illness criteria to determine eligibility for acute care and observation services.\n\nUtilization Review: Perform both concurrent and retrospective monitoring and analysis of variations in the processes of care. Identify and recommend opportunities for improvement as appropriate. Collaborate with nursing/MD, Quality Improvement department.\n\nQualifications\nEducation:\nAssociate Degree in Nursing\nExperience:\nMinimum of three (3) years relevant clinical experience including demonstrated use of discharge planning, utilization, and quality management skills. Chart reviewing-auditing, and able to extract and analyze data.\nLicense and Certification:\nRN License in Vermont in good standing\nSkill Requirements:\nStrong clinical skills, leadership, and computer skills.\nAble to establish and maintain strong working relationships.\nSelf-directed, assertive problem-solving.\nEffect assessment and planning skills.\nEffective written and oral communication skills.\nChampions and builds interdisciplinary teams.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4657,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"associate","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T14:12:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":73,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.809,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":15,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:2","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":74000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/copleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/copleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T06:14:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8179,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4422508},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4422508"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcopleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcopleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcopleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/copleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcopleyvt-care-manager-discharge-planner"}]}