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Evolent Health Health Educator, Care Management in Topeka, Kansas
Your Future Evolves Here
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.
Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.
Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Join a team of clinical colleagues working collectively to improve the health of a defined population.
Our Care Management team offers candidates the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by providing exceptional care to our patients, fostering a sense of job satisfaction through team-approached problem-solving and positive interactions. Our team values collaboration, continuous learning, and a patient-centric approach, ensuring that every team member contributes to providing better health outcomes for this population.
Collaboration Opportunities:
The Health Educator will assist our patients and caregivers in finding new ways to inspire healthier behaviors and build the self-management skills of our patients and care givers. The Health Educator works collaboratively with a team of RN Care Advisors, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Community Health Workers and Care Coordinators daily to provide a holistic approach to helping our patients meet their health goals.
What You Will Be Doing:
Conducts initial outreach calls to engage patients and care givers in the program. This involves performing initial interviews/screenings with eligible patients.
• Conducts initial outreach calls to engage patients and care givers in the program. This involves performing initial interviews/screenings with eligible patients.
• Provides self-management and care coordination support for patients with one of the following conditions: Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes.
• Assists the patient and care giver to comprehend their illness, make lifestyle changes, adhere to medication regimen and work with their provider to develop a symptom response plan
• Creates a personalized action plan that will focus on a patient’s most important goal and specific activities/interventions to achieve that goal. Identify and address barriers that are preventing the patient from meeting their goals.
• Conducts regularly scheduled self-management coaching, education calls about the patient’s condition and role in taking care of themselves; this includes care coordination with patients, care givers, physicians and other community and health plan-based resources to ensure patients are receiving the right care in the right place at the right time.
• Facilitates gaps in care closure by educating patients about preventive monitoring/screening and working with physician practices to schedule diagnostic testing.
Qualifications:
• Two years of experience working with commercial, Medicare and/or Medicaid chronic Preferred
• Experience working in a health plan setting or doing predominantly telephonic health education and coaching is not required but it is highly preferred Preferred
• Respiratory Therapist, Registered Dietitian, RN or LPN, or B.S. in Health Education, Health promotion, Community Health Education, or equivalent. * Required*
• Knowledge and experience teaching self-management - Preferred
• Fluency in a foreign language- Preferred
• Experience with electronic health records – Preferred
Technical Requirements:
We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations.
Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruiting@evolent.com for further assistance.
The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $26-$29/Hour. This position is also eligible for a bonus component that would be dependent on pre-defined performance factors. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.
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