Customer Care Navigator - On-site - Manhattan & Brooklyn

About the role

Work closely with onsite sales colleagues to identify customers in need of enrollment services and provide post-sales customer service follow-up. Interact face-to-face with customers, assisting in providing complete resolution of customer concerns including claims, benefit and enrollment inquiries through health plan navigation, health and wellness coaching, and community referrals.

Proactively research EmblemHealth member issues utilizing multiple enterprise systems and data to explain and resolve complicated customer service issues, close care gaps, help complete HRAs, and enable higher retention of members within the neighboring community. Help conduct seminars and workshops on premises and play an important role in class offerings for the department.

Collaborate with enterprise team members on member retention efforts and special projects within the location, including Care Management and Quality, to understand member needs in the community as they relate to gaps in care and quality efforts to provide effective in-person and outreach services. Provide post-sales customer service follow-up with Sales colleagues, both onsite and in the field, to address member customer service and care needs. Work with ACPNY teams, both co-located and within the region, to aid in care gap issues, especially as they relate to social needs and customer service follow-up.

Represent EmblemHealth to all visitors to the sites, including internal and external partners, groups, and leaders. Maintain a primary Neighborhood Care location but also support multiple Neighborhood Care sites within a region.

Responsibilities

• Identify customer needs and help solve customer issues related to health plans, health and wellness, and enrollment within regulatory guidelines; provide direct guidance or identify other EmblemHealth (EH) and community resources to find customer solutions, conduct customer needs assessments, and educate on condition management.
• Understand and maintain excellent working knowledge of EmblemHealth products, services, and technology platforms.
• Document interactions in support of quantitative metrics for the site and department.
• Work with the manager to deliver and organize onsite health seminars and classes, including EH vendor-led classes.
• Proactively communicate with customers, EmblemHealth departments, and community partners the status of any outstanding issues until resolved. Effectively describe final resolution to the customer.
• Work together with the sales team to identify customers in need of enrollment services and provide post-sales customer service follow-up.
• Proactively support operational aspects of other internal partners such as AdvantageCare Physicians, product, customer service, and quality teams to help improve customer experience and operations.
• Participate in weekly meetings with the manager and team members across sites to discuss customer care issues, improvement opportunities, community offerings, and other site and company priorities.
• Represent EmblemHealth at onsite interactions with community partners and leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 3 – 5+ years of experience working with customers in customer service, medical, or managed care environment (Required).
• Experience in evidence-based health and lifestyle coaching techniques (Preferred).
• Ability and willingness to attend appropriate training and certification classes (Required).
• Additional experience/specialized training may be considered in lieu of educational requirements (Required).
• Experience communicating directly with customers, assessing needs, and connecting customers with resources (Required).
• Knowledgeable on how to navigate all aspects of medical care and the managed care system, and health and wellness (Required).
• Ability to demonstrate excellent service knowledge and hospitality, and optimistic warmth and empathy for the customer experience (Required).
• Excellent communication skills—verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal—with all types/levels of audiences (Required).
• Proficient with MS Office—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc. (Required).
• Technologically savvy, with the ability to quickly learn and navigate different information technology systems (Required).
• Flexibility to work in different Neighborhood Care sites when needed (Required).

Pay

Hiring range: $56,160–$99,360.