About this role
Be the nurse who starts every client's journey home.
At Iowa Home Care, we don't call it our Intake Department. We call it our Welcome Home Department - because we believe the beginning of home health care should feel exactly that way.
We're looking for an experienced, compassionate Registered Nurse to join our Welcome Home team and specialize in Start of Care admissions for clients throughout the Des Moines area.
This is a great opportunity for an RN who loves assessment, OASIS, care planning, patient education, and putting all the pieces together - but may be ready for something different from a traditional ongoing case-management role.
Your specialty will be getting care started right.
What You'll Do
As our Welcome Home RN, you will:
- Complete comprehensive Start of Care (SOC) admissions for new Iowa Home Care clients.
- Complete OASIS assessments and required admission documentation.
- Perform comprehensive nursing assessments and medication reconciliation.
- Identify clinical, functional, safety, social, and support needs.
- Get to know each client and family, including their goals, priorities, and what matters most to them.
- Develop individualized plans of care designed to help clients safely and successfully remain at home.
- Coordinate with physicians and other providers to obtain necessary orders.
- Identify appropriate disciplines, services, visit frequencies, and clinical priorities.
- Educate clients and families about their care and what they can expect from Iowa Home Care.
- Collaborate with nursing, therapy, social work, home health aides, scheduling, and clinical leadership.
- Provide a thorough clinical handoff to the RN Case Manager and other clinicians who will continue the client's care.
- Help ensure every new client has a smooth transition into Iowa Home Care.
Our goal is simple: when you hand a new client over to their ongoing clinical team, they should understand the client, understand the plan, and have everything they need to provide exceptional care.
What We're Looking For
Required
- Current Iowa Registered Nurse (RN) license
- Strong clinical assessment and critical-thinking skills
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently and manage your day effectively
- Commitment to timely, accurate, high-quality clinical documentation
- A genuine desire to make clients and families feel comfortable and confident receiving care at home
Preferred
- Previous home health experience
- Previous OASIS experience
- Experience completing Start of Care assessments
- Knowledge of Medicare home health requirements
- Admissions, care-transition, discharge-planning, or case-management experience
Don't check every preferred box? We still want to hear from you. A strong RN with excellent assessment skills, great communication, and the desire to learn home health may be exactly who we're looking for.
Why This Role Is Different
This isn't traditional bedside nursing, and it isn't traditional home health case management.
As a Welcome Home RN, you'll specialize in one of the most important parts of the home health journey: getting care started correctly.
You'll meet new clients and families, assess the whole clinical picture, build the roadmap for their care, and then partner with the appropriate clinical team members to carry that plan forward.
You'll have independence in the field while remaining closely connected to an experienced clinical team.
Compensation & Benefits
- $72,000-$80,000 annual salary based on experience
- Additional bonus potential
- Company vehicle provided for work-related travel
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Continuing education and professional development opportunities
- Support from an experienced home health clinical and leadership team
Welcome Home Starts With You.
For more than 20 years, Iowa Home Care has helped Iowans receive compassionate, high-quality care where they most want to be - at home.
We're looking for an RN who can walk into a new client's home, listen, assess the whole picture, build a great plan, and give both the family and the care team confidence about what comes next.
If you enjoy meeting new people, completing comprehensive assessments, developing great care plans, and knowing that your work sets the tone for everything that follows, we'd love to meet you.
Apply today and become part of Iowa Home Care's Welcome Home team.