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FIELD-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE ADVOCATE

Requisition Number: 2215937
Job Category: Behavioral
Primary Location: Metairie, LA
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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help
millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will
directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy
benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a
culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive
benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the
communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale.
Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 



You have high standards. So do we. Here at UnitedHealth Group, this includes
offering an innovative new standard for care management. It goes beyond
counseling services and verified referrals to programs integrated across the
entire continuum of care. That means you’ll have an opportunity to make an
impact on a huge scale – as part of an incredible team culture that’s defining
the future of behavioral health care.



The goal of the Field-Based Behavioral Health Care Advocate (Monroe, Baton
Rouge, and Shreveport Louisiana vicinity) role is to help individuals live their
lives to the fullest by promoting recovery and resiliency via coordination and
collaboration with multiple internal and external partners including consumers
and their families/caregivers, medical, behavioral health, and clinical network
teams. Field Care Advocates work with complex and high-risk needs with a goal of
engaging the consumer in the treatment process, decreasing their reliance on
higher levels of care, helping them to access appropriate community services,
and assisting them in improving community tenure.



Field-based Behavioral Health Care Advocate is needed in this area. You will be
in the field up to 50% of the time visiting members in their homes, hospitals,
and local facilities.



Primary Responsibilities:

 * Provide case management to members to assess for and find solutions to
   obstacles to care
 * Link members to healthcare providers and community supports
 * Work with members via telephone and face to face contacts to address
   healthcare needs
 * Provide field visits to members who have been admitted to behavioral health
   hospitals
 * Meet with members in the hospital and their home
 * Assist inpatient behavioral treatment team with discharge planning
 * Collaborate treatment plans with outpatient providers
 * Assist the member with transitioning back into the community following an out
   of home placement
 * Work with members to assist with getting their medications filled, making
   follow up appointments and arranging transportation to medical appointments
 * Explain behavioral health insurance benefits and what behavioral health
   services are available



You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that
will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in
your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested
in.

Required Qualifications:

 * Licensed Master’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or Marriage
   or Family Counseling. License must be clinically independent (i.e., LCSW,
   LMFT, LPC), active and unrestricted in the state of LA
 * Clinical licensure in Louisiana
 * 2+ years of experience in a related mental health setting
 * Computer / typing proficiency to enter / retrieve data in electronic clinical
   records; experience with email, internet research, use of online calendars
   and other software applications
 * Access to high-speed internet from home and a dedicated workspace
 * Reliable transportation and the ability to travel as needed within the
   designated service delivery area on a needed basis
 * Willing or ability to be in the field up to 50% of the time in the territory
   listed



Preferred Qualifications:

 * BH Field experience (client’s home, mental health rehab facility, etc.)
 * Dual diagnosis experience with mental health and substance abuse
 * Experience in a community mental health rehab setting
 * Experience working in a behavioral health hospital 

 

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and
make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every
race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to
live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many
barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of
color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are
committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and
delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health
outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.





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Requisition Number 2215937

Business Segment Enterprise Clinical Services

Employee Status Regular

Job Level Individual Contributor

Travel No





Additional Locations
Baton Rouge, LA, US
Shreveport, LA, US
Monroe, LA, US

Overtime Status Exempt

Schedule Full-time

Shift Day Job

Telecommuter Position No






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