Community Health Worker - Multiple Locations, KS

Energize your career with one of Healthcare's fastest growing
companies.  

You dream of a great career with a great company – where you can
make an impact and help people.  We dream of giving you the opportunity to
do just this.  And with the incredible growth of our business, it's a
dream that definitely can come true. Already one of the world's leading
Healthcare companies, UnitedHealth Group is restlessly pursuing new ways to
operate our Service Centers, improve our Service levels and help people lead
healthier lives. We live for the opportunity to make a difference and right
now, we are living it up.

This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas:
Optum –a growing part of our family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group a
Fortune 14 leader.

Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the
fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions, and treatments;
helping them to navigate the system, finance their Healthcare needs, and stay
on track with their Health goals. No other business touches so many lives in
such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared
values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation, and Performance.

Together, we're removing the barriers that keep people
from receiving the kind of quality healthcare that makes a difference. We focus
on Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation and Performance as we
empower people to achieve better health and well-being.

As a Community
Health Worker (CHW), you will act in a liaison role with Medicaid members
to ensure appropriate care is accessed as well as to provide home and social
assessments and member education.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create a positive experience and relationship
  with the member
• Keep the member out of the hospital by
  supporting regular visits to their primary   physician
• Keep member actively engaged with their
  primary physician
• Support the member to ensure pick-up of their
  Rx
• Proactively engage the member to manage their
  care
• Provide member education
• Support transitions of care
• Help to keep members compliant with their
  care plans
• Partner with care team (community, providers,
  internal staff)
• Knowledge and continued learning of community
  cultures and values
• May conduct HRA assessments if needed