Overview
As the largest and leading value-based kidney care company, Somatus is empowering patients across the country living with chronic kidney disease to experience more days out of the hospital and healthier at home.
It takes a village of passionate and tenacious innovators to revolutionize an industry and support individuals living with a chronic disease to fulfill our purpose of creating More Lives, Better Lived. Does this sound like you?
Showing Up Somatus Strong
We foster an inclusive work environment that promotes collaboration and innovation at every level. Our values bring our mission to life and serve as the DNA for every decision we make:
- Authenticity: We believe in real dialogue. In any interaction, with patients, partners, vendors, or our teammates, we are true to who we are, say what we mean, and mean what we say.
- Collaboration: We appreciate what every person at Somatus brings to the table and believe that together we can do and achieve more.
- Empowerment: We make sure every voice gets heard and all ideas are considered, especially when it comes to our patients’ lives or our partners’ best interests.
- Innovation: We relentlessly look for ways to improve upon the status quo to continuously deliver new solutions.
- Tenacity: We see challenges as opportunities for growth and improvement — especially when new solutions will make a difference for our patients and partners.
Showing Up For You
We offer more than 25 Health, Growth, and Wealth Work Perks to help teammates learn, grow, and be the best version of themselves, including:
- Subsidized, personal healthcare coverage (medical, dental vision)
- Accrual of 3 weeks’ Vacation (PTO)
- Professional Development, CEU, and Tuition Reimbursement
- Curated Wellness Benefits supporting teammates physical and mental well-being
- Community engagement opportunities
- And more!
The Engagement Specialist is responsible for telephonic outreach and enrollment of our eligible members. Our Engagement Specialists demonstrate a highly energetic blend of salesperson, health care navigator and health plan customer support representative.
This role is a fully remote position.
Responsibilities
- Outbound/Inbound dialer calls to members/consumer with complex medical conditions/CKD and ESRD
- Providing excellent customer service, including the ability to handle escalated callers
- Inform members the value participating in kidney services will provide them
- Verify insurance coverage is active and kidney GFR (if CKD) to determine member/consumer eligibility
- Complete initial health assessment
- Confirming member eligibility
- Maintaining and Schedule initial outreach appointment with a nurse using scheduling tool
- Performs all other related duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required
- High School Diploma / GED
- 1+ years of combined or related experience in a healthcare, call center, and/or customer service setting using the telephone and computer as the primary instrument to perform job duties
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Word (create and maintain documents), Excel (create and maintain spreadsheets) and Outlook (email and calendaring)
- Medical Terminology
Preferred
- 1+ years of sales experience
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Our priority is the health and safety of our members, colleagues, partners, and community. Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination is required for employment. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodations consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the company. All requests for proof of vaccination or for exemptions from the vaccination requirement will be subject to any limitations stipulated by current state and/or federal laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Somatus, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.
