Jobs › NorthLakes Community Clinic

RN Care Manager

NorthLakes Community Clinic · Ashland, WI · Full time

Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

Apply at NorthLakes Community Clinic

Likely interview questions for this role

Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Tell me about coordinating care for a patient with both medical and mental health or recovery needs.

What they are checking: Integrated care across family medicine, recovery and psychiatric services, as the posting describes.

Tell me about a time you disagreed with a provider about a patient's plan.

What they are checking: Advocacy for the patient while keeping a respectful working relationship.

How do you manage your caseload so no one falls through the cracks?

What they are checking: Tracking systems for follow-ups with many high-risk patients.

What would you do

You'll travel weekly between Ashland, Iron River and Hurley. How would you keep patients and teams connected across sites?

What they are checking: Organization and communication when care spans several clinic locations.

A patient with heart failure keeps ending up in the hospital. What would you do?

What they are checking: Finding root causes like medication access or understanding, and closing gaps after discharge.

How do you increase use of preventive services among patients who rarely come in?

What they are checking: Practical outreach strategies tied to the posting's goal of more preventive care.

About the work

Walk me through how you build a care plan with a high-risk patient, their provider and their family.

What they are checking: Person-centered planning that the patient owns, which the posting puts at the center of the role.

How would you identify which patients most need care management?

What they are checking: Using data, risk factors and team input to focus effort where it matters most.

How do you use shared decision-making with a patient who is reluctant to change?

What they are checking: Engaging patients in self-management rather than giving orders.

How do you follow up after a patient's hospital discharge?

What they are checking: Transitions of care skills that prevent readmissions and medication errors.

Practice this interview out loud.

Offer builds a real interview for this exact role at NorthLakes Community Clinic from your resume and this job description, asks the questions one at a time, and tells you what landed. The first one is free.

Practice this out loud

The full job description

As published by NorthLakes Community Clinic.

Caring for our community starts with you. Join a team that believes everyone deserves care. Candidates must reside within NorthLakes' service area at the time of hire and maintain residency throughout employment. To engage teams and patients in the delivery of evidence-based, patient-centered, lifelong care. Essential Job Functions Travel Requirement: This RN Care Manager position will travel between our Ashland, Iron River, and Hurley clinic locations on a weekly basis. The RN Care Manager will manage high risk and chronic illness to promote whole-person, integrated, quality care. The RN Care Manager will employ a person-centered and team approach, partnering with patients and their family/caregiver(s), clinic/hospital/providers and specialty providers and other staff, and community resources. • Conduct in-office patient visits as outlined in care plan and based on patient’s health status and self-management interests • Create and promote engagement with a care plan, developed with the patient, primary care provider and/or specialty care provider and family/caregiver(s) • Support the delivery of integrated, whole-person care in family medicine, recovery and psychiatric care. • Engage patients in self-management and shared decision-making • Increase utilization of preventative care services • Promote timely access to appropriate care to reduce emergency room utilization and hospital readmissions • Increase continuity of care by managing relationships with tertiary care providers, transitions-in-care, and referrals • Work with internal providers on coordinating schedules, getting a client in to other service lines as needed • Facilitate patient access to appropriate medical and specialty providers, assisting with residential and detox referrals • Assist with the identification of “high-risk” patients with a chronic illness and those with special health care needs, coordinate care, and track outcomes • Assess for social drivers of health and work with Community Health Workers on integrated Care Management • Attend all Care Management training courses/webinars and meetings – contribute to the development of the Care Management Program • Participate in quality improvement efforts by; utilizing dashboards, tracking tools and providing quality reporting data monthly • Follow protocols, clinical policy and procedure in collaboration with the Primary Care Provider/Specialty Care provider for chronic care management. Follows clinical guidelines protocols and policies related to all direct patient care. • Performs in-clinic triage and medication refills • Work with Triage Nurse team as needed to perform medication refills and triage. • Conducts nursing assessments according to assessment tools to determine services and service level of care needed. • Under provider direction performs and/or assists provider in inductions utilizing COWS, administers patient injections and provides education on naloxone. • Helps monitor OB clients, talking with their OB provider about pain management for delivery and postpartum. • Provides education about Neonatal Abstinence syndrome, support systems, and concerns • General Education with patients about substance use, tobacco cessation, prevention, communicable disease management, new medical diagnosis • Monitor medication adherence, including checking the PDMP, help monitor side effects, provide patient education, assist prior authorizations and prescription assistance programs • Provide medication reconciliation and complete refill requests, including for controlled substances under direction and approval from prescribing provider • Connect patients to relevant community resources, with the goal of enhancing patient health and well-being, increasing patient satisfaction, and reducing health care cost • Serve as the contact point, advocate, and informational resource for patients, care team, family/caregiver(s), payers, and community resources • Facilitate and attend meetings between patient, family/caregiver(s), care team, and community resources, as needed Qualifications and Education Requirements • Minimum Level of Completed Education: Associates Degree in Nursing • Prior years of experience in similar role: RN with two+ years related experience and/or training • Experience with systems, computer applications/software: Electronic Health Records, preferably Epic. • Required (or Preferred) Licensure/Cert/Credentials: Current, valid and unrestricted WI license to practice as a Registered Nurse. Current CPR certification required . • Evidence of leadership, communication, education and counseling skills. Local knowledge about community health care and social welfare resources preferred. Benefit Statement For full time and part time employees who work 24 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes: •     Medical and dental insurance •     Employer paid group term life and disability •     Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account •     Flexible Spending Accounts •     Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Leave Bank •     403(b) with a 4% employer match Various voluntary benefits: •     Vision Insurance •     Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability •     Tuition reimbursement •     Health and Wellness reimbursement program •     Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members •     Partner of HRSA/NHSC loan repayment program Our Mission is to respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness. NorthLakes Community Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references. At NorthLakes Community Clinic , our organizational competencies highlight the behaviors and values that guide how we work and provide a shared foundation for performance, development, and growth throughout an employee’s career with us. NorthLakes Community Clinic Organizational Competencies Mission Driven - Advances the organizational mission, vision and values in executing  job duties. Customer Service - Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met. Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems. Creativity - Generates new ideas, supports change, provides innovative solutions, solves problems creatively. Integrity - Earns the trust and confidence of coworkers and customers through honest communication, ethical behavior and professionalism in all interactions. Teamwork - Contributes to meeting team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a cooperative team atmosphere. Self-Development - Seeks out and accepts feedback, is a proactive learner, takes on tough assignments to improve skills, keeps knowledge and skills up-to-date, turns mistakes into learning opportunities. Job Knowledge - Understands duties and responsibilities, possesses necessary job knowledge and technical skills, maintains job knowledge current. Communication - Understand and communicate effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, which include writing, speaking, reading, listening and interpersonal skills. Dependability - Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements. Trauma/Resilience Informed - Understands that trauma is prevalent and ​resilience can be cultivated and improved; and operates in a manner consistent with these principles.

Apply at NorthLakes Community Clinic

More registered nurse care manager roles