Care Management Extender, Peer Support Specialist
Elevance Health
full-time
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Location: North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Engage in general outreach, engagement, and follow-up with members and their caregivers and families to support care management efforts
- Support care managers as they advocate for foster parents and other caregivers, addressing their needs or challenges with various agencies and systems
- Coordinate services and appointments, such as wellness reminders and arranging transportation
- Assist the care manager in assessing and addressing unmet health-related need
- Utilize professional expertise and lived experiences to guide and connect members and caregivers
Requirements
- North Carolina residency is required
- Must reside in Region 5
- Requires a HS diploma or equivalent and a minimum 2 years of related experience; or any combination of education and experience
- Preferred: Lived experience
- Preferred: Peer Support Certification
- Excellent skills in maintaining professionalism and effective communication
- Skilled in articulating ideas clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
- Ability to build respectful and appropriate relationships with individuals across a wide range of disabilities and health conditions, as well as with their families
- Strong capacity to collaborate effectively within a team environment and follow guidance from the Care Manager and the Care Management department