Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics

Care Coordinator Specialist, Full-time

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics  •  Vermont (Onsite)  •  19 minutes ago
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Job Description

Care Coordination Specialist

Full Time, Days

Why work as a Care Coordination Specialist at the Dartmouth Health Home Care?

  • You experience satisfying and challenging work that makes a difference, every day.
  • You will be part of a high-functioning, collaborative team that is dedicated to providing excellent home health and hospice services to our community.

Benefits include:

  • Employee Referral Bonuses
  • Online LinkedIn Learning
  • Extensive health, dental, and lifestyle benefits that come with being part of the renowned Dartmouth Health system

Locations:

  • White River Junction, VT

Dartmouth Health Home Care covers more than 140 towns delivering superior nursing, rehabilitation, hospice, and personal care services with proven effectiveness, integrity, and compassion. Our only goal is to help the people in our communities. When you join the Dartmouth Health Home Care, you’ll become part of a dedicated team delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

Responsibilities

The Care Coordination Specialist is a key contributor within the Home Healthcare Care Coordination model, ensuring that each referral moves efficiently from receipt to a completed start of care (SOC). This role drives throughput by coordinating all referral components—orders, documentation, authorizations, scheduling, and communication—serving as the operational hub between sales, intake, scheduling, and clinical teams. The Care Coordination Specialist uses critical thinking, prioritization, and communication expertise to deliver a seamless experience for patients, families, and referring partners. This position operates as a care logistics specialist, ensuring readiness, accuracy, and timely activation of services rather than functioning as a transactional data processor.

  • Leads the end-to-end referral process by obtaining necessary orders, documentation, authorizations, and ensuring each referral progresses efficiently into a start of care (SOC).
  • Develops and maintains ongoing communication with patients, families, pharmacies, providers, and the care team to ensure timely responses and coordinated care.
  • Manages all SOC paperwork, documentation, and recordkeeping to maintain full regulatory and home health compliance.
  • Champions the scheduling workflow by coordinating with PODs according to the POD charter, managing provider calendars, and adjusting schedules to optimize patient care and provider efficiency.
  • Collaborates with audit and compliance teams, identifying gaps, resolving exceptions, and supporting corrective actions as needed.
  • Manages operational workflows, referral queues, and documentation accuracy while providing education and guidance to patients and families throughout the coordination process.
  • Ensures high-quality, service-oriented interactions with families, referral sources, and partners, focusing on referral conversion, readiness, and an exceptional customer experience.
  • This job description is not meant to be exhaustive and may be modified as needed. Employees may be assigned other related duties to meet organizational needs.

    Key Performance Indicators:

    • Referral response time
    • Referral-to-admission cycle time
    • Referral-to-admit conversion rate
    • Family/referral-source satisfaction

    Qualifications

    REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Bachelor’s degree preferred; each year of approved experience may be substituted for one year of education.
    • Three to four years of experience in a home health agency, healthcare coordination, or a related role preferred. Each year of approved formal education may be substituted for one year of work experience.
    • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment with competing priorities.
    • Excellent communication skills for interacting with patients, families, referral partners, and clinical teams.
    • Strong organizational and multitasking abilities with high attention to detail.
    • Proficiency with electronic health records, referral management systems, and general computer applications.

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Scheduling experience strongly preferred.

    Required Licensure/Certifications

    • None
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics

    About Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics

    How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.

    Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

    Industry
    Healthcare & Social Services
    Company Size
    5,001-10,000 employees
    Headquarters
    Lebanon, New Hampshire
    Year Founded
    Unknown
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