Clinical Care Coordinator

This position is National Remote. You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

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The Clinical Care Coordinator serves as a key member of the patient care team across Boulder Community Health (BCH) clinics, supporting care coordination, quality initiatives, and value-based programs. This role focuses on connecting patients-especially those with chronic conditions or high healthcare utilization-with appropriate care and community resources, while promoting return to primary care. The coordinator also facilitates smooth care transitions after emergency department visits and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes and reduce avoidable high-cost care.

BCH primary care physician clinics are guided by the philosophy of the Patient-Centered Medical Home. The medical home organizes care around patients, while engaging a multidisciplinary care team working proactively to coordinate and track care for each individual patient.

This position is full time (40 hours/week) Monday - Friday. Employees are required to have flexibility to work any of our 8-hour shift schedules during our normal business hours of 8:00 am - 4:30 pm MST. It may be necessary, given the business need, to work occasional overtime.

We offer on the job training. The hours during training will be aligned with your schedule.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively and collaboratively as a member of a care team with primary care providers, MAs, nurse care managers, and other clinic staff to provide care to patients based on best practices.
• Using department workflows and training, provide simple patient support for community resources, chronic disease topics, and care navigation. Escalate patients to licensed clinicians per protocol.
• Huddle with RN Care Managers and Transitional Care Nurses to address barriers to patient care.
• Run and edit daily and ad hoc reports using electronic medical record.
• Provide emergency department follow-up calls per protocol.
• Provide resource referrals for patients requesting assistance with social determinants of health such as food & meals, housing, home safety, vision & hearing loss, health literacy, and transportation.
• Maintain and update shared documents and resources for the ICS team, periodically reaching out to community resources to refresh the directory.
• Reinforce care plans under the guidance of the clinical team.
• Schedule patients for services necessary to meet disease management guidelines including follow-up from other levels of care.
• Provide patient education resources and tools as ordered by the provider or care team, or per policy; may require travel to the office to mail documents to patients as needed.
• Under the guidance of the diabetes educator, may support the BCH diabetes education program with administrative tasks, patient follow-up calls, and program documentation.
• Perform effectively in stressful and/or emergency situations.
• Extensive work experience within own function.
• Work is frequently completed without established procedures.
• Works independently.
• May act as a resource for others.
• May coordinate others' activities.
• Apply knowledge/skills to a range of moderately complex activities.
• Demonstrate great depth of knowledge/skills in own function.
• Sometimes act as a technical resource to others in own function.
• Proactively identify solutions to non-standard requests.
• Solve moderately complex problems on own.
• Work with team to solve complex problems.
• Plan, prioritize, organize and complete work to meet established objectives.
• Act as a resource to the quality and payer programs teams for outreach campaigns.

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:

• High school diploma / GED or equivalent work experience
• Must be 18 years or older
• 1+ years working in a clinical setting, healthcare system, or community resource organization experience
  Experience working with an electronic medical record system
• Working intermediate knowledge of and ability to work independently with Microsoft Office suite: Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams
• Flexibility to work any of our 8-hour shift schedules during our normal business hours of 8:00 am - 4:30 pm MST. It may be necessary, given the business need, to work occasional overtime.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of coordinating patient care in a healthcare setting
• Knowledge of patient-centered care and the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model
• Knowledge of quality metrics and shared savings models
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills

Telecommuting Requirements:

• Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure (if applicable)
• Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separated from other living areas and provides information privacy.
• Must live in a location that can receive a UnitedHealth Group approved high-speed internet connection or leverage an existing high-speed internet service.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The hourly pay for this role will range from $20.00 - $35.72 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.