Patient Engagement Associate II

Note: We sincerely appreciate your interest in us, but please do not call to follow up on your application as our direct phone line is used for inbound patient and caregiver calls. We encourage you instead to utilize our inbox. We receive a high volume of applications, but will do our best to respond to every application in a timely manner.

Applicants residing in Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington D.C., New Jersey, and/or New York strongly preferred.

This position is remote with local travel as needed.

What You’ll Do

The Patient Engagement Associate II will work collaboratively with their engagement pod and have shared accountability for enrolling and onboarding children and caregivers into Imagine Pediatrics’ program. This role will be highly specialized and require strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills along with an aptitude for collaboration and teamwork. Specific responsibilities include:

• Conduct thorough research on attributed patients to better understand their healthcare needs and utilization, uncover potential challenges or barriers to enrollment, and identify thoughtful ways to reach caregivers.
• Perform telephonic outreach to the caregivers of attributed patients with the goal of enrolling their child in care and ensuring a seamless onboarding experience.
• Perform telephonic outreach to other healthcare professionals that may be engaging with our attributed patients and their caregivers. This could include durable medical equipment (DME) companies, home health organizations, pharmacies, pediatricians, and more.
• Leverage relationships with Imagine teammates and external providers, along with community resources, to support ongoing engagement and re-engagement of enrolled patients, connect caregivers with ongoing support, and facilitate communication and care coordination to help address barriers to care.
• Handle inbound phone calls from caregivers, health plan service coordinators, and hospital discharge planners as part of the enrollment process.
• Develop deep knowledge of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and perform telephonic outreach to caregivers that may be eligible for this program.
• Collaborate with Provider Engagement Specialists to conduct embedded outreach (e.g., on-site at PCP offices, residential facilities, etc.) when appropriate to support the enrollment process.

What You Bring & How You Qualify

First and foremost, you’re passionate and committed to creating the healthcare experience that our sickest children and their caregivers deserve. You want an active role in building a diverse and values-driven culture. Things change quickly in a startup environment; you accept that and are willing to pivot quickly on priorities. In this role, you will need:

• 2+ years of healthcare experience in care coordination, community health, patient engagement, customer service, or sales.
• Proven success in a centralized contact center environment.
• Experience with resourcing within a patient or family facing role and navigating social service agencies.
• Strong aptitude for documentation; prior experience with a CRM platform is a plus.
• Excitement to be part of a tight-knit team with shared accountability for enrollment; excellent collaboration skills.
• Stellar active listening and communication skills; ability to tailor value proposition to various audiences with different needs and overcome more complex objections.
• Strong ability to build trust & relationships with key stakeholders, including caregivers & other healthcare organizations.
• Passion and aptitude for research and data mining; strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to function with a high level of autonomy.
• Access to reliable transportation; willingness to spend time in the field when necessary.
• Reliable internet access required
• Bilingual Spanish required

What We Offer (Benefits + Perks)

The role offers an hourly range of $24-$26 per hour in addition to an annual bonus incentive, competitive company benefits package, and eligibility to participate in an employee equity purchase program (as applicable). When determining compensation, we analyze and carefully consider several factors including job-related knowledge, skills and experience. These considerations may cause your compensation to vary. We provide these additional benefits and perks:

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA; Company-funded HSA
• 401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one
• Employer-paid short and long-term disability
• Life insurance at 1x annual salary
• 20 days PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
• Paid new parent leave
• Additional benefits to be detailed in offer

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