Manager, Nurse Practitioner - Remote

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

Day-to-Day Clinical Leadership & Team Oversight

• Serve as the clinical lead and direct day-to-day manager for a team of NPs, actively supervising and overseeing their daily work, schedules, and clinical execution.
• Ensure NP quality and productivity on a daily basis, including documenting findings, appropriate diagnoses, closing plan of care gaps, and accurate diagnosis capture to the highest level of specificity.
• Provide ongoing clinical guidance, coaching, and regular case-level training to NPs to improve understanding of CKD, ESKD, and commonly associated chronic conditions.
• Manage daily workflow, task allocation, and patient coverage across diverse market assignments to ensure balanced caseloads and optimal productivity.

Performance Metric Execution & Quality Assurance

• Drive the execution of team performance metrics, clinical quality goals, patient engagement targets, and productivity benchmarks across all assigned markets and lanes.
• Monitor, analyze, and leverage operational and clinical performance dashboards to identify trends, address metric variances, and implement targeted action plans.
• Conduct routine clinical competency evaluations, chart audits, and quality reviews to maintain high documentation integrity and achieve programmatic clinical outcomes.

Clinical Resource & Complex Case Support

• Serve as an expert clinical resource and trusted advisor for NPs, providing accessible, real-time clinical and documentation guidance and support for complex, high-risk patient escalations.
• Assist NPs in navigating complex clinical decision-making, comorbid disease management, and transition-of-care barriers, partnering as needed with specialized resources, interdisciplinary care teams, and external providers.

Hiring, Onboarding, & Teammate Development

• Support NP hiring efforts and lead the end-to-end onboarding, clinical orientation, and training of new NPs.
• Conduct regular 1-on-1s, clinical competency evaluations, chart audits, and performance reviews to drive continuous improvement, accountability, and professional growth.
• Address day-to-day teammate escalations, performance gaps, and operational barriers promptly and effectively.

Clinical & Operational Strategy

• Serve as a key leader of clinical and operational strategy, working in partnership with team leadership, clinical peers, and dyad partners.
• Identify opportunities to streamline daily NP workflows, eliminate operational bottlenecks, and focus management intensity on high-risk, high-utilization members.
• Partner across market lanes to dynamically align and optimize Flex NP resources where patient need and coverage intensity are greatest.

Regulatory Compliance & Standards

• Know and comply with DaVita policies and procedures in accordance with State and Federal regulations for patient care and services (CMS, HIPAA, OSHA, or other governing agencies).
• Uphold standards necessary to maintain organizational accreditation (such as NCQA) and State or Federal regulations of Injury Prevention and Safety Training programs.
• Ensure team adherence to state-specific nurse practitioner scope of practice, credentialing, and collaborative practice agreements across all active operating jurisdictions.