Care Partner

Thyme Care; United States; Remote; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming the cancer care experience. As a Care Partner, you will play a vital role in navigating and supporting cancer patients and their families through their healthcare journey. Your empathetic communication and problem-solving skills will be essential as you connect members with vital resources and providers. This full-time position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those facing cancer, all while working in a supportive and innovative environment. If you're passionate about healthcare and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in a patient-facing role is required.
• Comfort with technology and remote work is essential.

Responsibilities

• Guide cancer patients through their care journey via phone, text, and video.
• Connect members with healthcare providers and resources.

Skills

Patient navigation

Effective communication

Empathy

Healthcare knowledge

Technology proficiency

Education

Experience in healthcare

2+ years in patient-facing role

Tools

Google Suite

Slack

Electronic health records

Job description

OUR MISSION

Imagine building a better healthcare journey for cancer patients, where individuals and their loved ones feel seen, supported, and heard by their care team – both in and out of the clinic. Where fast access to high-quality care is the norm, not the exception. Where patients have access to a care navigator to guide them through their diagnosis, and trusted support all along the way.

At Thyme Care, we share a passion for transforming the cancer care experience – not just for patients but also for their caregivers and loved ones, as well as those delivering and paying for their care. Today, Thyme Care is known predominantly as a cancer care navigation company enabling value-based cancer care; in the next few years, we will become a nationally recognized technology-driven and provider-centric care delivery model, reshaping the landscape of cancer care access, delivery, and experience. Our commitment runs deep—we're not satisfied with the status quo but determined to redefine it.

To make this happen, we’re building a diverse team of problem solvers and critical thinkers to drive innovation and shape the future of healthcare. If you share our vision and want to be part of something truly meaningful, we want to hear from you. Together, we can revolutionize cancer care and make a difference that lasts a lifetime.

YOUR ROLE

As a Care Partner, your job is to talk to, navigate, and guide our members who have cancer throughout their journey. You will report into our Care Partner Team Lead and spend most of your day reaching out to our members by phone, text, video, and email to check in on their needs. If members need support connecting with providers or resources (e.g., transportation, financial grants, emotional support resources, medical equipment) you are responsible to get it for them. Additionally, you help members schedule health and wellness visits with our provider team and conduct survey assessments to determine if there are changes in their health, what their needs are, and what their goals and values are for advanced care planning.

In order to ensure we have sufficient coverage at all times, we maintain a schedule that includes lunch and two breaks.

After your first three months, you will:

• Have completed virtual onboarding and training (three weeks long) and are up to speed on Thyme Care systems, tools, technology, partners, and expectations. You’re completing at least 30 calls with members each day.
• Have built strong, trusting relationships with your members, where listening and empathy are the foundation for every interaction. You use that relationship to prioritize how we ought to address their needs.
• Be able to identify and prioritize a member's needs and then know where to go to get them help. This means you’ll be working to connect them with their healthcare providers, social services, diagnostic appointments, and medical treatments.
• Follow Care Team policies and procedures, escalation pathways, best practices, and highest standards. You’re hitting your efficient metrics and quality standards.
• Be a valuable partner to our members, guiding them to the right resources and information to best support them throughout their care journey.
• Be on the lookout to improve the experience, quality, and outcomes of our work with members.

What leads to success:

Your resume and prior roles reflect:

• At least 2 years of experience in a patient-facing or member-facing role
• Success in a metrics-driven, feedback-oriented environment
• Experience working from home and/or in a fast-paced environment, a plus

• A member-first approach. You’re personally motivated by our mission and are passionate about assisting people and their families during one of the most challenging seasons in their lives. Healthcare experience preferred.
• Move with purpose. You’re biased to action. You know how to identify and prioritize your initiative’s needs, and do what it takes to ensure that urgent and important needs are acted on immediately.
• Seek diverse perspectives. You are humble and proactively seek feedback from others. You’re always looking to learn and grow.
• Effective listener and communicator. You are winsome and articulate, but you always start with listening and you hear what may not be voiced, because you listen so intently to others. You build rapport and great working relationships with members and colleagues.
• Experience. A baseline knowledge of healthcare will be valuable to your success in this role. Ideally, we'd like to see 2+ years of experience working at the front office of a doctor's office, working in a healthcare call center, or in a patient-facing role at a healthcare startup.
• Comfort with ambiguity.You have a proven track record of success within scaling businesses, fast-paced environments, and/or startups. You understand that rapid changes to the business, strategy, organization, and priorities is par for the course.
• Comfort with technology. We are a technology company focused on interacting with folks during the season where they need it most. Experience with video chatting, Google Suite, Slack, electronic health records or comfort learning new technology is important.
• A quiet working space. It’s important you’ve worked in a remote role in the past. To ensure member privacy, you must operate in a quiet and secure environment during your scheduled shifts and are able to test your internet speed prior to starting to ensure our applications function as expected.

OUR VALUES

At Thyme Care, our core values—Act with our members in mind, Move with purpose, and Seek diverse perspectives—guide us in everything we do. They anchor our business decisions, including how we grow, the products we make, and the paths we choose—or don’t choose.

This is a non-exempt, full time position. The pay rate for this role is $24.03/hour. To perform this role you must be located within the 50 United States due to contractual limitations with accessing PHIs.

The shift for this role will be 8:30am-5:00pm EST or 11:30am-8pm EST. In order to ensure we have sufficient clinical coverage at all times, we ask that our Care Team be prepared to work up to 2 holidays per year compensated at a 1x hourly rate in addition to a 1.5x holiday rate.

We are a growing organization and recruit and employ a large number of these roles. Because of this, we actively interview for this position even when we don't have an immediate opening. Candidates who complete the interview process and fit the role are eligible for the next available opening. We will reach back out once an open position becomes available.

We are committed to promoting the health and well-being of all individuals. As a provider of cancer care navigation, we recognize that those with cancer constitute a vulnerable population at risk of contracting COVID-19. As such, Thyme Care employees are expected to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, subject to conflicting laws and exemptions based on medical or religious objections.

Additionally, we recognize a history of inequality in health care. We’re here to challenge these systems with a culture of inclusion through the care we give and the company we build. We embrace and celebrate a diversity of perspectives in reflection of our members and the patients our products serve. We are an equal opportunity employer.

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