Job Description

Essen Health Care is the largest privately held, multispecialty medical group in New York, providing high-quality, compassionate care to some of the state’s most vulnerable and underserved residents.

Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it.

We’re looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Whether you’re a medical provider, administrator, or operations professional, there’s a career here for you. Join us in making a real difference in the health of our community.

The Assessor is responsible to perform intake screening on all incoming members. The incumbent will utilize internal and state operating standards to screen, evaluate members’ needs based on eligibility, qualifying condition and appropriateness. The assessor will also complete the DOH’s initial appropriateness within the allotted timeframe (30 days).

Responsibilities

As part of the outreach and intake team, the assessor will:

• Build relationship and collaborate with Outreach Specialists and other Essen’s divisions to accurately perform intake screenings on all new enrolled members.
• Complete all intake screenings timely. Evaluate and identify members’ appropriateness based on chronic conditions and needs. Assess situations that may be potentially harmful to the client. Collect member’s information for enrollment encounter notes and initial appropriateness.
• Commute and see potential members in their home and community, as well as in-office
• Document all outreach and enrollment encounter notes in the lead health home system (FCM or BAHN) and electronic health record system (eCares).
• Maintain excellent communication and effective working relationships with house call and office staff – including medical assistant, office managers, physicians and other health care providers.
• Complies with all Essen’s CMA, DOH and LHH standard of outreach and enrollment practices.
• Work as a team with the department to ensure the delivery quality of care services is provided to the member in the outreach and enrollment stage.
• Participate in all supervision, training, and staff meetings.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in social science human services or master’s degree in a field of human services, social work and social sciences.
• Minimum of one-year professional experience working in outreach or care coordination.

Hourly range: $25.00 - $26.00

Equal Opportunity Employer

Essen Health Care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically-diverse population. Essen Health Care provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics