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Bilingual (Spanish) Population Health Resource Associate

Employer
Duke University
Location
DUKE SELECT DUKE BASIC

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Duke Connected Care, a community-based, physician-led network, includes a group of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers who work together to deliver high-quality care to Medicare Fee-for-Service patients in Durham and itssurrounding areas.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

  • Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet® organization
  • Nurses from each hospital are consistently recognized each year as North Carolina’s Great 100 Nurses.
  • Duke University Health System was awarded the American Board of Nursing Specialties Award for Nursing Certification Advocacy for being strong advocates of specialty nursing certification.
  • Duke University Health System has 6000 + registered nurses
  • Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!
  • Relocation Assistance!

Location: Durham, NC 27710

General Description

The Population Health Resource Associate will implement, plan and coordinate comprehensive patient plans to ensure that patients receive appropriate overall medical care, therapy and training services, in an effort to enable their recovery or management of complex, chronic health conditions. This work is done in conjunction with the Complex Care Team (s). Bilingual candidates in English/Spanish is preferred.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide outreach and care management support to patients; educate clients of available community resources.
  • Assist clients with coordination of care between healthcare providers and other complex care team(s).
  • Performs a range of non-clinical care management functions (outreach, health education, informal counseling, social support, resource linkages, interpretation/ translation, transportation coordination, and advocacy) for an active patient caseload to build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency and accurately documents activities with follow-up and plans of action.
  • Act as a client advocate and support the development of problem solving skills; provide instructions in basic health care procedures.
  • Coordinate and/or participate in community health activities to include preparing patient education materials, brochures, bulletins, newsletters and other promotional materials and/or publications. Attend off-site, outreach education and recruitment sessions.
  • Maintain liaison with other programs, offices and departments at Duke to coordinate program business and to accomplish program objectives. Interface with external organizations as appropriate to ensure cooperative efforts are enhanced and available resources are utilized. Promote program on key coalitions and task forces to foster collaboration, educate constituencies, leverage resources, and reduce duplication of services.
  • Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, investigate trends, and recommend and implement modifications to improve program effectiveness. Prepare reports and conduct preliminary analyses setting forth progress and adverse trends.
  • Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
  • The work activity and patient acuity levels can create a stressful atmosphere.
  • Additional responsibilities could include:
  • Make home visits and other contacts with clients, as necessary. Coordinates regular practice visits and attends provider meetings to promote coordination of patient care.
  • Accompany clients to scheduled appointments and/or referral sites, as needed.
  • Serves as liaison to health/social services providers to build and maintain effective relationships with physicians, site leadership, hospital staff and other community stakeholders to ensure timely and appropriate patient follow-up.

Team Lead Responsibilities:

  • Provides regular oversight (including accompaniment into the field) of new hires and completes required performance adherence to program standards and implements improvement and development plans as needed.
  • Utilize leadership principles to mobilize team to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Conduct follow-up on outstanding matters to insure they are successfully resolved.
  • Represents program interests at internal and external meetings.
  • Collect and analyze key statistics (disease registries, biometrics, care management productivity, etc.) to ensure adherence to established care management protocols and benchmarks and investigates methods for improving service delivery.
  • Complete chart reviews and facilitate peer review process among assigned staff members.
  • Utilizes data to implement individual and program-level performance improvement activities (standardization of care, establishment of disease and population health metrics, consistency of reporting, information flow and management, job functions).
  • Assess training needs of new and existing staff, identifies and coordinates continuing education, in-services and staff development opportunities to ensure that skill-sets adhere to established core competencies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

The work activity and patient acuity levels can create a stressful atmosphere, therefore individuals successful in this job are:

-- Organized and motivated by a fast-paced environment

-- Able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously

-- Proficient in review and assess needs quickly

-- Strong with the use of computer software tools and data files

-- Comfortable with continuous change and self-initiating

-- Case/care management experience, patient advocacy, and/or care coordination preferred

-- Able to complete documentation in a quick and efficient manner (will be in legal medical record and other software systems developed for care management and population based program metrics)

Distinguishing Characteristics of this Level

Additional job expectations include the ability to:

-- Maintain strict confidentiality

_ Bilingual (Spanish) strongly preferred

-- Promote programs and services to community

-- Build effective and trusting relationships with patient/peers

-- Use motivational interviewing and active-listening skills when assessing patient conditions, problems and interests

-- Use conflict-resolution skills when reaching consensus about plans of care and treatment decisions

-- Demonstrate confidence, compassion, political savvy, as well as attention to detail to apply these skills as decisions dictate

-- Use data to analyze trends and to verify data

Minimum Qualifications

Education

High school degree or equivalent, as well as strong communications and organizational skills.

Experience

Work generally requires customer service experience through patient or public contact.Two years of experience with customer interactions via phone and marketing/communications preferred. Active user of electronic medical records software strongly preferred. An associate’s degree or higher may be substituted for experience.

Degrees, Licensures, Certifications

NA

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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