Behavioral Health Advocate Job Full Job Title:Behavioral Health Advocate, Associate Job Number:1804123 Location:Phoenix,AZ Date Posted:6-11-2018 -Coordinates the socio economic needs and service of selected member populations across the continuum of illness. Coordinates and plans activities and behavioral routines to meet the medical, social and emotional needs of members and their families. Provides support and/or intervention and assists members in understanding the implications and complexities of their current medical situation and/or overall personal care. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal resource outcomes. DEPARTMENT: Behavioral Health REPORTS TO: Director, Member Advocacy Essential Functions: -Interviews clients and their families and coordinates programs and activities to meet their social and emotional needs. -Provides support to care and case managers regarding the coordination of care plans for members by utilizing social service expertise to evaluate the members need for alternative services and third party intervention. -Outreaches to members telephonically and/or in-person to provide health coaching and consultation and by providing guidance regarding barriers to managing health conditions. -Assists members to change behaviors and to locate and access interpersonal, family and community resources that will make it easier to manage their health. Reviews benefits options, researches community resources, coordinates services, trains behavioral routines and enables members to be active participants in their own healthcare. -Provides telephone follow-up to ensure members have seen their PCP and are completing their treatment plan or preventive care services a defined by the PCP or guidelines. -Coordinates community resources with emphasis on the development of natural support system. Coordinates benefits, regulations, laws and public entitlement programs. -Acts as a liaison and member advocate between the member/family, physician and facilities/agencies. -Assists in obtaining benefits for members through community resources when benefits are exhausted or not available. -Performs other duties as assigned.Candidate Education: -Required a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work (BSW), Psychology, Counseling, Rehabilitation, or other relevant field or equivalent work experience in managed care directly related to assisting members to change behaviors and to locate and access interpersonal, family and community resources that will make it easier to manage their healthCandidate Experience: -Required 6 months of experience in a health care environment with client care coordination responsibilities via assisting clients to change behaviors and to locate and access interpersonal, family and community resources that will make it easier to manage their health -Preferred experience in a managed care environmentCandidate Skills: -Intermediate ability to work independently Ability to work independently, handle multiple assignments and prioritize workload -Intermediate demonstrated interpersonal/verbal communication skills Communicates effectively in person and by phone -Intermediate ability to create, review and interpret treatment plans Ability to create, review and interpret treatment plans -Intermediate ability to multi-task -Intermediate ability to work within tight timeframes and meet strict deadlines -Intermediate ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from families, members, and providers -Intermediate ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from peers and management -Intermediate demonstrated problem solving skills -Intermediate demonstrated written communication skills -Intermediate demonstrated time management and priority setting skills -Intermediate knowledge of healthcare delivery -Intermediate knowledge of community, state and federal laws and resourcesLicenses and Certifications: A license in one of the following is required: -Preferred Licensed Bachelor Social Worker (LSW)Technical Skills: -Required intermediate Microsoft Outlook -Required intermediate Microsoft Word -Knowledge of or the ability to learn company approved software such as EMMA, CRMS, Peradigm, InterQual, Sidewinder and other software in order to perform job duties -Required intermediate Microsoft Excel Languages: -Bilingual helpful