Linkage to Care Coordinator (Part-time)

**\*\*\* This role will be working 24 hours a week\*\*\*** ***If you are currently employed at Vivent Health, please log into UKG and submit your application through the My Company/View Opportunities page.*** Get ready for something extraordinary! Picture this – as a part-time employee you've got paid time off, plus paid holidays. That’s just the start of the great benefits at Vivent Health. We also offer a 401(k) with a full match up to 5%, plus other perks. But here's the real deal. Your journey with Vivent Health isn't just a job. It's a chance to join an organization dedicated to fostering a workforce that reflects diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. This makes you a part of something bigger and enables you to have a meaningful impact in our communities and the lives of the amazing patients we serve. Here are a few highlights of what working at Vivent Health may offer you: - Equity Practices: Fair treatment, access, and opportunities for all employees, creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute. - Professional Growth: Opportunities for professional development and advancement, along with training programs and events that promote cultural competence, unconscious bias training, and awareness. - Collaboration on an inter-disciplinary team: Within our integrated HIV care and prevention model, we employ a high level of collaboration across disciplines. That means that, in your role, you will have the opportunity to be exposed to whole person-care across medical, behavioral health, pharmaceutical, research, and more! - Delivery of quality patient care: Our integrated HIV care and prevention model is proven to help patients achieve positive health outcomes. **YOUR CONTRIBUTION:** **Deliver Excellence. Oversee with Integrity. Drive Progress. Exceed Expectations.** The Linkage to Care Coordinator provides intensive care coordination, support and services to HIV-positive individuals who require rigorous assistance to improve their ability to access and remain in care. This individual will coordinate with HIV testing sites as needed to initiate access to care; work with clinical staff to promote adherence to medical, behavioral, oral health and pharmaceutical care; provide treatment education; collaborate with other programs within Vivent Health and with local providers; and offer direct interventions to reduce barriers to care for the benefit of patients. The Linkage to Care Coordinator will also educate HIV positive individuals on the importance of HIV medical care and empower them to navigate medical and social systems on their own. **OUR EXPECTATIONS:** **Winning skills and behaviors for success** - Provide highly focused, intensive, time-limited support to persons newly diagnosed with HIV disease, persons from corrections facilities who are returning to the community (if applicable), persons at high risk for falling out of care, or who have lapsed from care. ​ - Conduct immediate response for newly diagnosed clients in clinic or outside testing partner agencies as assigned. - Complete intake and other screenings to identify barriers to care and, with the patient, devise possible solutions that are effective and sustainable. - Provide case management services, according to the state HIV Medical Case Management Standards, to persons with HIV infection through; - Assessments/Reassessments; - Service Planning; - Coordination of Services and/or Service Plan monitoring; - Work with appropriate community physicians, nurse practitioners, therapists, dentists, pharmacists, and case managers to identify patient health needs and to ensure accessible, confidential, and high-quality services to patients. - Work with patient and providers to develop and implement a health care plan to meet patient needs and retain patient in care. This plan will include objectives that will facilitate the client in becoming a good self- health advocate and developing skills needed to navigate n…