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Evolent Health Social Worker - Must reside in Maryland in Linthicum Heights, Maryland
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:
Our goal is partnering with the nation’s leading health systems in their strategic evolution to positively impact and improve the healthcare delivery system.
Collaboration Opportunities
Our Care Management team offers candidates the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by providing exceptional support for 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.
As a Social Worker with Evolent, you will serve as a critical member of the integrated care team, which is made up of registered nurses, pharmacists, registered dieticians, and program coordinators.
The Social Worker role at Evolent will provide both direct care management to a high-risk population, as well as provide clinical consultation to other members of the care team. Evolent partners with the nation’s leading health systems in their strategic evolution to positively impact and improve the healthcare delivery system. As a Social Work Care Advisor with Evolent, you will have the opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of people living with multiple chronic illnesses and people who are uninsured with medical, behavioral and substance abuse issues.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Engaging patients and care givers in active care planning to focus on behavioral, clinical, social, and environmental concerns and needs of patients.
Create and maintain a comprehensive inventory of local community resources, improving accessibility for patients and providers, and linking patients with the appropriate support services.
Assess the patient’s knowledge of their clinical condition and provides education and self-management support based on the patient’s preferences.
Unite patients with primary care, behavioral health, respite, and other services.
Hybrid and flexible work schedule.
Conduct home visits with patients to assist with SDoH barriers or other needs identified by the CM team as needed
Help patient access community and governmental based service agencies including possibly filling out paperwork with/for the patient.
The Experience You’ll Need (Required):
Licensed Social Worker (LSW) master’s degree.
2-3 years of Medical or Community Social Work experience providing patient-centered outreach, behavioral health services, needs assessment and support.
Demonstrate excellent interactive communication skills, the ability to engage with varying patient populations, and meet the patient ‘where they are’.
Be personally and professionally accountable for best-practice patient care.
Ability to travel to various locations.
Finishing Touches (Preferred):
Master of Social Workers (MSW) applicants are encouraged to apply.
Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as partner with multidisciplinary teams and health care providers. Advocate for patients within the medical and community settings.
Additional qualities that would be a good fit for our team include excitement and passion for helping patients, genuine spirit, kind, and thoughtful nature, and one who embraces a ‘go with the flow’ mentality.
Experience with Motivational Interviewing, Self-Management and Patient Engagement strategies are a plus.
Experience with Medicaid, insurance providers and telephonic patient engagement is a plus.
Bilingual English (Plus but not required)
Demonstrated interest in working with an underserved population.
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 $75,000. 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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