Community Care Advocate

Spring Health; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 33,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Spring Health in Amsterdam is seeking a Community Care Advocate to connect employees with community and company resources that address social determinants of health. This onsite role operates in a structured schedule in zip code 12010, with a focus on accessible support for workers.

You will identify referrals, link people to resources, and work with care teams to assist emergency funding and benefits navigation. Strong communication and a commitment to equity are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience with diverse populations in social work.
• Ability to connect individuals to local and national resources.
• Spanish proficiency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify referrals for work-life, financial & legal, and basic needs support.
• Link employees to local and national resources via consultations and referrals.
• Collaborate with internal care teams for emergency funding and referrals.
• Advise on navigating mental health resources and workplace benefits.
• Document metrics and outcomes of referrals and utilization.
• Promote the community care advocate service to employees.

Skills

Spanish proficiency

Diverse populations experience

Tech-enabled environment

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Our mission: eliminating every barrier to mental health. Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage. Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners. As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.

Community Care Advocate

The Community Care Advocate serves a retail customer by connecting employees to community and company resources to meet social determinants of health and needs of the employee.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is an onsite role: Monday 9a-9p, Tues-Thu 11:30-8, Friday 12-5 in zip code 12010.

• Identify and make referrals for work-life, financial & legal, and basic needs support.
• Link employees to appropriate local and national resources via one-on-one consultation and referral list(s), which may include basic needs (housing, food, transportation, etc.), financial, legal, daily living and other worklife support resources and provide support throughout applications and follow-ups as needed.
• Work with customer internal care teams on behalf of those employees in need of emergency funding and resource referrals.
• Offer consultation related to navigating mental health resources (local and national) and available workplace benefits, such as onsite Mental Health Coaches, work life articles and guidebooks to the team members of the customer
• Assist in actively linking employees to appropriate mental health treatment options (i.e Spring Health, behavioral health through medical insurance, emergent behavioral health services, and community resources) and provide support throughout applications and follow-ups as needed.
• Documenting and tracking of metrics/outcomes that include but not limited to; reason for social work involvement (resource need type), demographics of employees (as available), referrals placed (where, when) and success of referrals (connection rate, outcome of referral).
• Represent Spring Health and help to support/reinforce program parameters and goals.
• Communicate with local points of contact and cascade any needs to Spring Health partners through routine meetings and touchpoints.
• Submit reporting documentation of all client and organizational activities on a routine and timely basis.
• Proactively develop relationships with key customer contacts and attend customer meetings as requested/appropriate.
• Proactively promote the community care advocate service offering to employees.

What We Expect From You

A Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Proficiency in Spanish strongly preferred.

• Experience working with diverse populations and backgrounds within the social work industry.
• Experience and a depth of knowledge with connecting individuals to resources locally and outside of your local communities.
• Ability to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Flexibility and creativity when approaching workplace challenges.
• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills.
• Skilled in embracing diversity and inclusion amongst teams and clients.
• Motivated to go above and beyond for members to provide a high-touch experience.
• Tech-savvy: must be comfortable using various computer platforms and working in a tech enabled environment.
• Experience helping organizations manage evolving workforce environments and norms is a plus.
• Experience connecting individuals to resources quickly in times of crisis is a plus.
• Experience assisting individuals through burnout, managing work-life balance, dealing with trauma and/or traumatic events is a plus.
• Experience working with lower income populations who experience challenges such as food insecurity and housing instability is a plus.

The target salary range for this position is $28-$34/hour. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

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