Field-Based Community Health Worker - Multiple Counties, VA

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As aField Based Community Health Worker,you will act in a liaison role with Medicaid members to ensure appropriate care is accessed as well as to provide home and social assessments and member education.CHWswork in a team - based structure and spend the majority of their time in the community engaging directly with members. Interesting in learning to work with medically complex patients who may be experiencing significant addiction and / or behavioral health conditions is important for this role.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create a positive experience and relationship with the member
• Help member set goals and develop a care plan to achieve those goals
• Proactively engage the member to manage their own health and healthcare
• Support the member to improve their well being by staying out of the hospital, and attend regular visits to their primary physician
• As needed, help the member engage with mental health and substance use treatment
• Support the member to ensure pick-up of their prescriptions
• Provide member education on community resources and benefits
• Conduct post discharge activities from hospital facility and support connection to social services
• Support member to engage in work or volunteer activities, if desired, and develop stronger social supports through deeper connections with friends, family, and their community
• Partner with care team (community, providers, internal staff)
• Knowledge and continued learning of community cultures and values
• May conduct Health Risk Assessments (HRA) if needed

Youll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma (or higher) with LPN (licensed for VA) OR a Bachelors degree in a health or human services field.
• 1+ years of experience directly working with individuals with special healthcare needs and/or behavioral health within the Medicaid / Medicare population
• Familiarity with the resources available within the community
• Field based experience
• Ability to travel locally, up to 100 miles round trip (50 miles one way) and up to 80% of the time (includes mileage reimbursement)
• Must reside in or near or be able to commute to any of the following counties: Roanoke, Montgomery, Bedford, Franklin or Botetourt
• Experience working with windows-based applications with the ability to learn new and sometimes complex systems
• Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separated from other living areas and provides information privacy
• Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure (if applicable)
• Must live in a location that can receive a UnitedHealth Group approved high-speed internet connection or leverage an existing high-speed internet service
• You will be provisioned with appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and are required to perform this role with patients and members on site, as this is an essential function of this role
• If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. When in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in child placement services through both a legal and behavioral health lens and trauma - informed clinical practice.
• Experience with vulnerable subpopulations include children and youth with special health care needs, adults with serious mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbances, members with substance use disorders, children in foster care or adoption assistance, and members with other complex or multiple chronic conditions.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English
• Previous care management experience
• CHW Accreditation or Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
• Experience working in Managed Care
• Ability to work alternate hours outside of normal business hours as needed
• Must have resided within the local community for 2+ years
• Knowledge of culture and values of community

UnitedHealthGroup is an essential business.The health and safety of our team members is our highest priority, so we are taking a science driven approach to slowly welcome and transition some of our workforce back to the office with many safety protocols in place. We continue to monitor and assess before we confirm the return of each wave, paying specific attention to geography-specific trends. We have taken steps to ensure the safety of our 325,000 team members and their families, providing them with resources and support as they continue to serve the members, patients and customers who depend on us.

You can learn more about all we are doing to fight COVID-19 and support impacted communities at:https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/newsroom/addressing-covid.html

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Community & State. Challenge brings out the best in us. It also attracts the best. That's why you'll find some of the most amazingly talented people in healthcare here. We serve the healthcare needs of low income adults and children with debilitating illnesses such as Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, HIV / AIDS and High - risk Pregnancy. Our holistic, outcomes - based approach considers social, behavioral, economic, physical and environmental factors. Join us. Work with proactive Healthcare, Community, and Government partners to heal healthcare and create positive change for those who need it most. This is the place to doyour lifes best work.^SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Groupis a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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