Care Advocate - Moline, IL

Care Advocate!  Medicaid Population!  Quad Cities! Multiple Openings!   You're looking for something bigger for your career. How about inventing the future of health care? UnitedHealthcare is offering an innovative new standard for care management. We're going beyond counseling services and verified referrals to behavioral health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Our growth is fueling the need for highly qualified professionals to join our elite team. Bring your skills and talents to a role where you'll have the opportunity to make an impact on a huge scale. Join us. Take this opportunity to start doing your life's best work. (sm)This position will work on the IOWA High Quality Healthcare Initiative.  This is a telephonic Behavioral Health Care Advocate / Utilization Management role based on site at our Quad Cities corporate facility in Moline, IL.  This is a Monday – Friday, daytime hours position.  The anticipated start date for this position will be November  20, 2015.  The first 4 weeks will be core training and daily attendance is required: 1300 River Drive, Suite 200, Moline, IL 61265.What makes your clinical career greater with UnitedHealth Group? You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care system. You will work within 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.  JOIN US!  APPLY NOW! To get better insight to this role and determine if it is the right fit for you, click here to view the Realistic Job Preview: http: //uhg.hr/SocialWorkerRJPPositions in this function are responsible for case management and utilization review of behavioral health and substance abuse services. Includes authorization, concurrent review, and coordination and assurance of appropriate levels of care to members. In this role, YOU will provide case management services through review and evaluation of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health treatments for medical necessity, emergency status, and quality of care.  Responsibilities:

Focus on initial inpatient admission for psychiatric and chemical dependency patients
Make patient assessments and determining appropriate levels of care 
Obtain information from providers on outpatient requests for treatment 
Determine if additional clinical treatment sessions are needed 
Manage inpatient and outpatient mental health cases throughout the entire treatment plan 
Administer benefits and review treatment plans 
Coordinate benefits and transitions between various areas of care 
Identify ways to add value to treatment plans and consulting with facility staff or outpatient care providers on those ideas

Requirements:

Licensed Master's Degree level clinician in: Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or Marriage & Family Counseling OR a Licensed Ph.D. or Licensed Psy.D. Psychologist, with 2+ years of behavioral health experience
Nurses with a BSN and Nurse Practitioners (NP) with 3 years of RECENT psychiatric nursing experience will also be considered
Clinical Licensure must be current and unrestricted for the State of Iowa
Intermediate computer skills with the ability to navigate a Windows environment and to create, edit, save and send documents utilizing Microsoft Word
Must be able to work on call as the need occurs (rotating schedule) Additional Preferred Assets:

Inpatient experience
Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorder provider
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
Experience with high risk groups such as individuals with SMI, co-occurring major mental disorders and SUDs and those involved in multiple services systems (i.e. education, justice, medical, welfare, and child welfare)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

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
 
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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