UnitedHealthcare | Foster Care, Care Coordinator
7 days ago
At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Foster Care Coordinator is responsible for using trauma-informed evidence-based approaches with members and caregivers for children and youth who are in out of home placement through the foster care system with complex/high or moderate needs who are not enrolled in a home and community-based waiver, on a wait list or receiving services through a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).
This is a field-based role located in Reno, Butler, Sedgwick Counties, KS and surrounding areas.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Assess, plan and implement care strategies that are individualized for children and youth in a family-oriented context (e.g., considering reunification and/or other permanency planning needs, needs for adoptive children, and needs for transition-age youth with alternative permanency plans) and directed toward the most appropriate, lease restrictive level of care
- Identify, initiate, coordinate, and monitor referrals for psychosocial, behavioral, and medical services
- Manage the care plan/plan of service throughout the continuum of care as a single point of contact
- Communicate with all stakeholders the required health-related information to ensure quality coordinated care and services are provided expeditiously to all members
- Advocate for children, youth, and families as needed to ensure the member’s needs and choices are fully represented and supported by the health care team
- Provide trauma-informed and disease/disorder specific education to members and caregivers
- Coordinate with the child welfare and juvenile justice system on behalf of members and caregivers
- Coordinate with additional services, including but not limited to, educational/educational advocacy, complex behavioral health (PRTF, etc.), services in line with state Family First Prevention and Services Act for children and families, high fidelity wraparound services, early childhood intervention
- Complex cases will have additional oversight by master’s level case manager, including review of assessments and care plans
You’ll 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:
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in social work, rehabilitation, nursing, psychology, special education, gerontology, or related human services area
- 3+ years of experience working with multi-system children
- 2+ years of experience working within the community health setting in a health care role
- 1+ years of experience working with MS Word, Excel and Outlook
- Ability to travel in assigned region to visit Medicaid members in foster homes and / or other settings, including foster care agencies, community centers, hospitals, or providers' offices
- Reside locally to Reno, Butler and Sedgwick Counties, KS
Preferred Qualifications:
- Licensed Bachelor Social Worker
- Experience with electronic charting
- Experience with arranging community resource
- Background in managing populations with complex medical or behavioral needs
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
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.
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