Who You Are

You are devoted, compassionate, and enjoy being on the front lines in healthcare, changing the lives of patients. You are passionate about digging in to develop, mentor and support care teams in maximizing their abilities to get to the root cause of patients' conditions, remove social determinants of healthcare, and ensure the highest possible quality of life and best outcomes for those in our care. You believe patients living with kidney disease deserve the best person-centered, holistic, comprehensive care and want to influence the healthcare system to drive towards that. You do not want to sacrifice quality over quantity, and you aim to provide the same level of care and commitment to our teams and patients that you would to your own family member. You thrive in innovative and evolving environments with high rates of change. You are driven by process-improvements. Does this sound like you? If so, we should talk.

Who We Are

Evergreen Nephrology partners with nephrologists to transform kidney care through a value-based, person-centered, holistic, and comprehensive approach to kidney care. We believe patients living with kidney disease deserve the best care and we are committed to improving patient outcomes and improving quality of life by delaying disease progression, shifting care to the home, and accelerating kidney transplants.

We help nephrologists focus on the right patients at the right time across the full care spectrum. We do this by providing them with the best-in-class interdisciplinary clinical resources, analytical insight and tools, and services to patients.

We listen to the needs of our patients, our employees, and our client partners, continually working to push beyond the status quo in which the care system manages patients today.

Your Role

As the Clinical Specialist with Evergreen Nephrology, you will educate, develop, support, and identify ways to improve our proactive clinical care teams and thereby help to ensure optimal clinical quality for our patients. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in the implementation of our strategic direction and advancement across the kidney care continuum. You will exemplify the definition of clinical standards and support the implementation and auditing of what great care looks like. You will assess the current state and needs of our care teams, compare that to the vision of where we are going, and assist building and executing on the clinical and quality plan for closing identified gaps. You will utilize a teamwork approach to build a culture of clinical excellence to achieve top performance of clinicians. You will engage deeply with internal and external stakeholders and partners to understand and align incentives, processes, and operational execution. By doing so, you will help drive significant improvements in clinical quality and outcomes, cost effectiveness, consistence in care delivery and model fidelity in our interdisciplinary team approach.

Primary functions for the Clinical Specialist include:

• Assist in the development and support the clinical quality program; exemplify the definition of great care and clinical standards in kidney care while developing and supporting care teams.
• Partner with clinical leadership, Evergreen Academy and training team to roll out clinical education that supports the quality program goals and standards.
• Utilize technology and provide feedback to the population health operations team to ensure clinical excellence as we operationalize clinical pathways, workflows, and processes; communicate goals set to our care teams and provide education and mentorship to support clinical excellence to drive high quality and reliability in care.
• Build relationships with our nephrology partners and care teams, gather feedback, and help identify improvement opportunities to assist in the design of pathways to eliminate barriers to care and achieve optimal clinical quality.
• Coach, train, and mentor members of our care teams who have not delivered kidney care and/or who have not delivered value-based care in a similar complex care management model.

How You Qualify

• You reviewed the Who You Are section of this job posting and immediately felt the need to read on. That makes you a match for our innovative culture.
• You accept that things change quickly in a startup environment and are willing to pivot quickly on priorities.
• You hold an unrestricted RN or NP state license.
• You have 3-5+ year of clinical practice experience in nephrology.
• You have proven experience leading care teams focused on clinical quality and outcomes for care delivery and/or managed care organizations.
• You have experience educating team members in various roles and work groups with conviction, decisiveness, and positivity.
• You have strong comprehension of clinical standards of care and are focused on quality of life for our patients.
• Bonus points: You have a master's degree of higher related to education, quality, public health, business administration, health services research or a related field

How You are Supported

• You will benefit from Evergreen Nephrology's exceptional total rewards package, including competitive base pay with bonuses, paid time off starting at four weeks for full-time employees, 12 paid holidays per year, reimbursement for continuing medical education, 401k with match, health, dental, and vision insurance.
• We are proud to offer family-friendly policies that support paid parental leave and flexible work arrangements.
• We commit to a robust training and development program that starts with onboarding and continues throughout your career with Evergreen Nephrology
• As an inclusive and diverse team, you will collaborate with like-minded healthcare professionals who, like you, understand the importance and value of Evergreen Nephrology's high-quality, value-based care model

Evergreen Nephrology is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (Opens in a new window) .

Evergreen Nephrology will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants. United States Department of Labor. Learn more (Opens in a new window) .

Evergreen Nephrology is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should email hwasielewski-lopez@evergreennephrology.com for assistance. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.