Remote - Onboarding Specialist

**Job Summary:** The Onboarding Specialist is the primary contact for members as they transition to a CCA/CareSource health plan. The Specialist contacts new members via telephonic outreach and identifies both the member's existing healthcare services that will continue and new service requests. The Specialist works to ensure that member needs are addressed through liaising with internal CCA/CareSource providers and external healthcare providers. The Specialist also educates the member on health plan offerings and addresses members' questions or concerns. **Essential Functions:** * Serves as the primary member contact and advocate until their care team is established, both through direct member outreach and inbound call support * Leverages internal and external resources (such as claims, referrals, and pharmacy data) to identify accurate, successful contact information for unreachable or hard\-to\-reach members * Orients new members to the value of CCA/CareSource as their health plan, providing education, answering members’ questions, anticipating, and meeting member needs and concerns * Documents members’ current healthcare services and new service requests * Ensures members continue to receive current healthcare services as they transition to CCA/CareSource through healthcare provider outreach and education * Schedules new members’ initial nurse intake visits * Utilizes communication skills such as motivational interviewing to gain agreement from members to participate in the onboarding process, persistently forging trusting relationships and engaging individuals not readily interested in connecting with CCA/CareSource * Utilizes established workflows and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders and healthcare providers * Provide clinical care to members via telehealth technologies (video, chat, etc.) for a clinically appropriate clinical care and care management services. * Perform any other job related duties as requested. **Education and Experience:** * Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience in call center and/or Medicare/Medicaid plan required * Equivalent years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of required education * Five (5\) years of relevant experience required * One (1\) year working in outreach or in the community with individuals who have behavioral, medical, social, or interpersonal complexities impacting their lives required * Experience working in a multi\-cultural setting required * Experience using motivational interviewing techniques in a professional setting required * Experience identifying unmet healthcare needs and escalating to the appropriate individual preferred preferred * Experience with electronic medical record and care management systems strongly preferred preferred **Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:** * Demonstrated understanding of the community served * Familiarity with data entry and querying databases to identify key information about members * Excellent c