Healthcare Consultant / Care Coordinator - Onsite

Title:                  Healthcare Consultant / Care Coordinator - Onsite

Mandatory skills:

behavioral health, social services, human services,
MS Office Suite applications, Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint,
child welfare, juvenile justice, public sector human services,
family systems, community systems, case management, child and family counseling, child protection, child development,
OH delivery systems, local community networks,
discharge planning, Managed Care, Medicaid,
healthcare management services, healthcare treatment, healthcare costs, healthcare program

Description:

Business Overview
As part of the bold vision to deliver the “Next Generation” of managed care in Medicaid, client will help struggling children and their families by focusing on the individual with strong coordination and partnership among MCOs, vendors, and ODM to support specialization in addressing critical needs. The client Program is designed to provide comprehensive and highly coordinated behavioral health services for children with seriocomplex behavioral health needs involved in, or at risk for involvement in, multiple child-serving systems.
The Case Management Coordinator utilizes critical thinking and judgment to collaborate and inform the case management process, in order to facilitate appropriate healthcare outcomes for members by providing care coordination, support and education for members through the use of care management tools and resources.

Fundamental Components:
Be clinically and culturally competent/responsive with training and experience necessary to manage complex cases in the community across child-serving systems.
Evaluation of Members:
Through the use of care management tools and information/data review, conducts comprehensive evaluation of referred member''s needs/eligibility and recommends an approach to case resolution and/or meeting needs by evaluating member''s benefit plan and available internal and external programs/services. Identifies high risk factors and service needs that may impact member outcomes and care planning components with appropriate referral to clinical case management or crisis intervention as appropriate.
Coordinates and implements assigned care plan activities and monitors care plan progress.
Enhancement of Medical Appropriateness and Quality of Care:
Using holistic approach consults with case managers, supervisors, Medical Directors and/or other health/behavioral health programs to overcome barriers to meeting goals and objectives; presents cases at case conferences to obtain multidisciplinary review in order to achieve optimal outcomes.
Works collaboratively with the members'' Child and Family Teams.
Identifies and escalates quality of care issues through established channels.
Utilizes negotiation skills to secure appropriate options and services necessary to meet the member''s benefits and/or healthcare needs.
Utilizes influencing/ motivational interviewing skills to ensure maximum member engagement and promote lifestyle/behavior changes to achieve optimum level of health.
Provides coaching, information, and support to empower the member to make ongoing independent medical and/or healthy lifestyle choices.
Helps member actively and knowledgably participate with their provider in healthcare decision-making.
Serves a single point of contact for members and assist members to remediate immediate and acute gaps in care and access.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation of Care:
Utilizes case management and quality management processes in compliance with regulatory and accreditation guidelines and company policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or non-licensed master level clinician required

Preferred Qualifications
Case management and discharge planning experience.
Managed Care experience.
Medicaid experience.

Duties
Determines medical necessity/ appropriateness
Facilitates optimal outcomes
Identifies and follow through with continuous quality/ compliance opportunities . May also include identification of aberrance''s and initiation of corrective action
Educates/ empowers customers to ensure compliance, satisfaction and promote patient advocacy
Optimize total costs
Implementation and evaluation of policy based on usage and program directives
Educate/empower colleagues at all levels to enable decision making at most appropriate level

Experience
2+ years of experience in behavioral health, social services, or human services
2+ years of experience with personal computers, keyboard and multi-system navigation, and MS Office Suite applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint).
2+ years of experience in children''s mental health, child welfare, developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, or a public sector human services or behavioral health care field, providing community-based services to children and youth, and their family/caregivers.
2+ years experience in one or more of the following areas of expertise: family systems, community systems and resources, case management, child and family counseling/therapy, child protection, or child development.
2+ year of experience with Ohio delivery systems, including local community networks and resources.

Position Summary
Provide comprehensive healthcare management services to facilitate appropriate healthcare treatment, effectively
manage healthcare costs and improve healthcare program/operational efficiency involving clinical issues

Education
Bachelor’s degree or non-licensed master level clinician required, with either degree being in behavioral health, human services, health services, or public health preferred. (i.e. psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling, juvenile justice).

Notes:
Mon-Fri 8-5
Willing and able to travel within the assigned region up to 50% of the time; Some travel to the New office may be required for trainings/meetings:
Reliable transportation required
Mileage is reimbursed per our company expense reimbursement policy
Willing and able to work beyond core business hours of Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm, as needed.

VIVA USA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a professional working environment that is free from discrimination and unlawful harassment. The Management, contractors, and staff of VIVA USA shall respect others without regard to race, sex, religion, age, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, physical, mental or sensory disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnam-era, recently separated veteran, Active war time or campaign badge veteran, Armed forces service medal veteran, or disabled veteran. Please contact us at for any complaints, comments and suggestions.

Contact Details :

Account co-ordinator: Keerthana Bathrappan

VIVA USA INC.
3601 Algonquin Road, Suite 425
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
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