Care Navigator, Care Navigation Program (Contract)

About The Role

You will be great for this role if:

Role responsibilities

• Receive referrals from partner hospitals and act as the main contact for their discharge planners and care teams.
• Route each referral using set guidelines and a triage protocol, either straight to a Headway provider or to a Clinical Assessor for evaluation.
• Schedule patients with the Clinical Assessor, then book them into the level of care the assessor recommends: a Headway provider, a specialty program or a community resource.
• Follow up to confirm patients attended care, and step in quickly if an appointment falls through.
• Connect patients to practical support (transportation, food, insurance and benefits questions) and coordinate between their providers.
• Build and maintain a list of local referral resources in each market.
• Follow escalation protocols and bring in clinical staff right away when a patient may be in crisis. Level-of-care decisions are made only by licensed clinicians.
• Document interactions with patients and complete all work within Headway's designated systems, following HIPAA and Headway's privacy and confidentiality requirements. Patient information is never stored or kept outside those systems.

Compensation

• We have 1-2 openings for a Care Navigator. The role requires a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week. The Care Navigator will be paid an hourly rate of $43.50 and must set up or have an existing LLC or S-Corp.
• We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.
• Headway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.
• A notice to Headway applicants: To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud, please note that Headway only accepts applications through our official careers page at https://headway.co/careers . Headway will never refer you to external websites, ask for payment or personal information, or conduct interviews via messaging apps. All official communication will come from a @ findheadway.com email address. If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from Headway via an unofficial channel, please do not share any information and report it as spam.