Manager Care Coordination

About the job

We are searching for a Manager Care Coordination.  Someone who provides day-to-day operational and people leadership for an assigned Care Coordination area, team, campus, or service line. The Manager translates departmental strategy into consistent frontline practice and is accountable for staffing, workload allocation, care progression, discharge planning, escalation of barriers, staff performance, documentation quality, productivity, and service outcomes. The position partners closely with physicians, nursing, social work, ancillary departments, Utilization Management, payers, and community resources to support safe and timely transitions of care.

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Responsibilities

• Manages daily care coordination operations.
• Provides daily oversight of staffing, assignments, coverage, workload, productivity, and service delivery for the assigned area.
• Implements standardized workflows for multidisciplinary rounds, discharge readiness, patient and family communication, barrier escalation, and transitions of care.
• Makes routine operational decisions and escalates significant patient, staffing, compliance, financial, or service risks to the Director.
• Leads patient flow, discarge planning, and complex barrier resolution.
• Manages people performance and professional practice.
• Recruits, orients, coaches, counsels, develops, and evaluates assigned staff; addresses performance and employee relations issues using established processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in: Nursing (Required)
• Master's Degree in: Nursing (Preferred)
• BLS Basic Life Support , American Heart Association (Required)
• RN Registered Nurse , Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact (Required)
• Nursing and care management, case management, utilization management, or care coordination experience (2 years Required, 3 years Preferred)

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 428768
• Job Category: Registered Nurse
• Posting Date: 2026-11-14
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 6621 Fannin St, Houston, TX, 77030, US ()