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Mental Health Care Advocate, Day Shift Dunwoody (Atlanta)
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Atlanta, GA Atlanta, Georgia |
About this job
What makes your clinical career greater with UnitedHealth Group? You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care system. You can work with in an incredible team culture; a clinical and business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day. And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere.
- Focus on initial inpatient admission for psychiatric and chemical dependency patients
- Making patient assessments and determining appropriate levels of care
- Obtaining information from providers on outpatient requests for treatment
- Determining if additional clinical treatment sessions are needed
- Managing inpatient and outpatient mental health cases throughout the entire treatment plan
- Administering benefits and reviewing treatment plans
- Coordinating benefits and transitions between various areas of care
- Identifying ways to add value to treatment plans and consulting with facility staff or outpatient care providers on those ideas
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM
Requirements
Requirements:
- Independently Licensed Master's degree-level clinician in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling
- Active and unrestricted license: LCSW, LPC, PhD or RN with behavioral health experience
- 2+ years of demonstrated experience in a related mental health environment
- Inpatient experience
- Computer literacy with MS Office proficiency (Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet)
- Must have the ability to talk on the phone and type at the same time
- Demonstrated telephonic/office-based experience
- Dual diagnosis experience with mental health and substance abuse
- Experience working in an environment that required coordination of benefits and utilization of multiple groups and resources for patients
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.