Patient Engagement Coordinator - Contractor

Protocol Behavioral Health; United States; On-site; USD 28,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Protocol Behavioral Health seeks a Patient Engagement Coordinator to guide referrals into care, scheduling intake and re-engaging patients who drift away. You’ll own the conversion funnel and coordinate with the Behavioral Health Care team to ensure timely access to care.

Your role requires experience in phone-based client-facing work, strong communication, empathy, and the ability to meet pipeline targets. Spanish bilingual is a plus; 1099 contract with hourly pay $20–$24.

Qualifications

• Experience in a phone-based customer service or patient-facing coordination role.
• Ability to meet conversion and pipeline targets.
• Strong communication and trust-building skills.
• Organized with ability to manage a live referral pipeline and re-engagement queue.
• Empathetic and patient-focused, especially with frustrated or hesitant patients.
• Familiarity with CRM/EHR systems and documenting consent accurately.
• Healthcare, medical sales, or patient enrollment experience a plus.
• Bilingual Spanish a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the patient conversion funnel, ensuring referrals are contacted within SLAs.
• Lead omnichannel outreach to new patient referrals via phone and text.
• Handle objections with empathy and confidence.
• Walk patients through informed consent and scheduling for intake.
• Schedule intake sessions and manage reminders and reschedules.
• Re-engage unengaged patients and reduce cancellations.
• Track outreach activity and outcomes in the CRM/EHR and report metrics.
• Collaborate with Clinical & Operations teams to surface friction points and improve processes.

Skills

Phone-based service

Communication

Empathy

CRM familiarity

Bilingual Spanish

Tools

CRM/EHR systems

Job description

About Protocol Behavioral Health

Our mission is to make cancer care better for patients, providers, and payers — improving outcomes through specialized behavioral health and supportive care, embedded within oncology care teams. A cancer diagnosis changes everything, not just a patient's physical health, and we exist to make sure their emotional needs are met alongside their treatment, not as an afterthought. We do this by partnering directly with oncology clinics and cancer centers and using the collaborative care model to bring mental health support into the room where cancer care already happens. That means patients get support earlier and more consistently and providers get a partner equipped to handle the mental health care their patients need. Our team is built by experienced healthcare operators and executives who have built and scaled partnerships across behavioral health, oncology, and value-based care. We're a fast-growing, early-stage company, and every new partnership moves us closer to making specialized behavioral health a standard part of cancer care.

About the Role

The Patient Engagement Coordinator is the first voice a patient hears when they're referred into our program, and the person responsible for making sure that referral actually turns into care. You'll guide patients from the moment they're referred all the way through to their first intake — answering questions, building trust, walking them through consent, and getting them scheduled with a Behavioral Health Care Manager. But getting someone to care once isn't the finish line. Patients cancel, miss appointments, or drift away for all kinds of reasons and when they do, they don't just fall off a list. They become your responsibility. You'll reach back out, understand what got in the way, and help them find their way back into the care they need. This role is about ownership of outcomes, not just activity: every referral that becomes a completed intake, and every patient who re-engages instead of falling through the cracks, is a patient who got the care they need because of you — a win you're accountable for.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the patient conversion funnel, ensuring referrals are contacted within our SLAs to ensure timely access to care
• Lead omnichannel outreach to new patient referrals, initiating contact across phone and text to introduce Protocol's program, explain how it works, and answer patient questions to ensure patients feel supported and informed
• Handle common objections and hesitations with empathy and confidence
• Walk patients through informed consent and ensure documentation is completed accurately
• Schedule patients for their intake session and confirm attendance, handling reminders and reschedules as needed
• Work a recurring list of unengaged patients — cancellations, no-shows, and program drop-offs — to understand what got in the way and bring them back into care
• Re-educate and re-motivate disengaged patients on the value of the program, re-scheduling and re-consenting as needed
• Track outreach activity and outcomes in the CRM/EHR, and report on key metrics: referral-to-outreach time, outreach-to-scheduled-intake time, referral-to-scheduled-intake conversion rate, and completed intakes
• Partner with the Clinical & Operations teams to hand off scheduled patients cleanly and surface recurring friction points that could improve messaging or process

What We're Looking For

• Experience in a phone-based customer service, call center, sales development, or patient-facing healthcare coordination role
• Comfortable being held to conversion and pipeline targets, not just call counts
• Strong communicator who can educate, build trust, and overcome objections without being pushy
• Organized and detail‑oriented — able to manage a live pipeline of referrals and a separate re‑engagement queue simultaneously
• Empathetic and patient, especially with patients who are confused, frustrated, or hesitant
• Comfortable with CRM/EHR systems and documenting consent accurately
• Healthcare, medical sales, or patient enrollment experience a plus
• Bilingual (Spanish) a plus

Compensation

This is a 1099 contracted role at a rate between $20-$24 an hour with potential to a full-time opportunity