Bilingual Senior Health Navigator

Suvida; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Suvida Healthcare in Houston seeks a Guia to coordinate care for a panel of Medicare-eligible Hispanic seniors. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to meet preventive, chronic, and acute needs, guiding patients and families toward healthier choices in clinic and at home.

You will build trusted relationships, arrange referrals, and help enroll in benefits, while documenting interventions in the medical record.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of experience working in healthcare setting or relevant experience.
• Expertise connecting patients and ensuring closed loop referral with community resources and governmental agencies that address complex social needs.
• Experience managing the needs of Senior/Geriatric populations.
• Ability to work independently, as well as, to develop collaborative relations with physicians, families, patients, interdisciplinary team members, and community agencies.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components.
• Possess knowledge and expertise in completing benefit applications such as SNAP, LIS, PAP, and prescription assistance.
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency with EMRs, computers, mobile devices, medical devices, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience utilizing electronic medical records and social service referral management software.
• Experience assessing and addressing the social determinants of health.
• Excellent therapeutic communication with patients, families, and caregivers
• Able to articulate Suvida Healthcare’s mission in relation to patient satisfaction and patient outcomes.
• Compassionate, kind, and open‑minded
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Able to care for patients in‑home, in‑clinic, and remotely.
• Bilingual/Bicultural (English and Spanish)

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive care coordination toan assigned patient caseload.
• Works collaboratively with patients, family, caregivers, healthcare providers, and external partners, to meet complex social needs.
• Promotes a collaborative process and communication between all health care team members, internal multidisciplinary teams, inclusive patients/clients, families, and caregivers to ensure the process of integrated care services are targeted, appropriate, and beneficial.
• Intervenes with patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial consequences of illness and/or disability.
• Conducts in‑person visits to the patient’s homes, as needed, per the Home Safety Measures Policy.
• Accesses and mobilizes family/community resources to meet social care needs.
• Documents all interventions in the patient medical record both timely and accurately including all elements of clinic visits, in home, telephonic engagement, or texting.
• Onboards patients to the Suvida model and their medical/social care visits.
• Provides patient education on acute and chronic disease management.
• Provides guidance to patients and families.
• Establishes healing relationships with patients and families.
• Employs confidence‑promoting techniques in patient communication and develops patient self‑efficacy to better manage health.
• Communicates with patients in‑person and by phone, video conference, and text messaging.
• Collaborates with other members of the multidisciplinary care team including but not limited to the Guia manager, Transitions of Care managers, and Medicaid case managers.
• Maintains knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and other program benefits to assist patients with resource allocation and choices.
• Provides consultation and collaborates with other Guias and team members on patients with significant or intensive community resources needs.
• Assists with the coordination of care across the continuum, such as: scheduling appointments with providers, coordinating referrals, and sharing or transferring information with the patient’s internal and external care team.
• Participates broadly in the daily operations of a primary care practice, such as: Answering incoming phone calls and messages and ensuring general upkeep of the clinical space.
• Tracks patient enrollment and progression through care programs
• Other duties as assigned by the Guia Manager

Skills

Healthcare experience

Care coordination

Senior/Geriatric care

Independent work

Time management

Benefits knowledge

Communication skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Community Health Worker certification

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Tools

EMR systems

MS Office

Social/referral management software

Job description

Suvida Healthcare in Houston seeks a Guia to coordinate care for a panel of Medicare-eligible Hispanic seniors. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to meet preventive, chronic, and acute needs, guiding patients and families toward healthier choices in clinic and at home.

You will build trusted relationships, arrange referrals, and help enroll in benefits, while documenting interventions in the medical record.