About this role
About the Role Integrated Care Coach provides proactive, patient-centered care coordination and social needs support for the highest-risk top 5% patient membership. You will serve as the primary contact for patients, focusing on care coordination, adherence coaching, healthcare navigation, transitions of care, and reinforcing care plans. You will report to a Care Integration Team Manager within the CenterWell and Conviva Primary Care organization. What You'll Do
- Coordinate care across health and social service systems, serving as patient advocates and clinical supports.
- Clinical Screening & Escalation: Conduct structured patient interviews and collect health-related information (e.g. medication regimen and barriers to adherence, social barriers, functional status). Document and share findings with providers.
- Outreach and Home Visits: Perform home visits to observe living conditions, identify safety concerns, and review environmental or social factors impacting engagement.
- Social Needs support: Identify barriers to care, address immediate social stressors, and connect patients with appropriate community-based resources.
- Chronic Disease Education: Deliver culturally appropriate education using approved materials to reinforce provider and pharmacist recommendations for chronic disease management.
- Care Coordination: Serve as a liaison between patients, primary care, specialists, pharmacies, home health, and community providers. Support care transitions, coordinate follow-up, and facilitate communication across care settings to close care gaps. Partner closely with the primary care provider to create care plans and priority action items.
- Post‑Hospital and Emergency Department Follow-Up: Conduct timely follow-up after hospitalizations and emergency department visits to support safe transitions. Review discharge instructions, schedule/confirm follow-up appointments, verify patient reported medications and escalate discrepancies to providers.
- Community Engagement: Encourage and support patient connection to community-based programs that reinforce health goals, including initial engagement when appropriate.
- Cultural Competence: Deliver patient centered, culturally sensitive care that respects patients’ beliefs, preferences, and social context.
- Develop a holistic understanding of patient needs via a 5Ms framework (What Matters Most, Mind (Mentation), Mobility, Medications, Multi-complexity) and identify barriers impacting health outcomes.
- Prepare, participate and discuss patients during High-Risk Rounds What We're Looking For
- Healthcare professional with 3+ years of Ambulatory, Primary Care, or Senior‑Care experience with direct patient care
- Bilingual in English and Spanish with the ability to read/write/speak in both languages
- Ability to discuss chronic conditions and reinforce medication instructions
- Comfortability to regularly conduct home visits and community-based outreach
- Demonstrated experience in patient education, care coordination, and social support of high-risk or geriatric populations
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Active Unrestricted LPN/LVN license or MA Certification
- Licensed or Unlicensed Medical professional with equivalent foreign Registered Nurse (RN) or Physician license
- Experience in care coordination, case management, population health and/or value-based care models
- Experience conducting post-hospital/ED follow up with appropriate escalation
- Familiarity with Medicaid, Long-term Care, and HCBS programs
- Experience working with seniors and medically complex populations
- Prior home visit experience and knowledge of field safety practices Nice to Have
- (Optional/preferred qualifications listed above in Preferred Qualifications) Compensation & Benefits
- Health benefits effective day 1
- Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
- Recognition pay
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Tuition assistance
- Scholarships for eligible dependents
- Parental and caregiver leave
- Employee charity matching program
- Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
- Career development opportunities