At Prospero, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, your work will empower people with complex health conditions to live their best life. Whether you’re joining us in a clinical or non-clinical role, your contributions will help patients write their next chapters with joy and dignity. Help us build a new kind of health care that operates by establishing trust as the centerpiece of medical care. We will provide you with career growth opportunities, comprehensive benefits, brilliant coworkers and more to help you redefine what loving care looks like. Join a team of people with a heart for service and start doing your life's best work.(sm) 

Clinical Services positions in Prospero are part of a community-based interdisciplinary care team of home-based medical care providers to support patients facing serious illness, including their families and care givers. What makes your clinical career greater with Prospero? You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care system. You can work with in an incredible team culture; a clinical and business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day. And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere.

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker is a member of a physician-led interdisciplinary team whose primary function is to provide assessments of the psychosocial and economic needs of the patient, provide support for patient coping with advanced illness, facilitate conversations related to the patient goals of care and end of life issues, provide caregiver support, and connect patients / families with community resources. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Visit patients facing serious illness in their homes to conduct a psychosocial assessment of emotional, social, and environmental strengths and challenges related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and home environment; Extend care and support with the use of virtual/telehealth tools when in person care is not indicated
• Help patients and families to articulate goals of care, utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and intervention, while maintaining the dignity of the patient
• Provide supportive counseling and crisis intervention to patients and/or caregivers 
• Partner with physicians, nurse practitioners, and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate patient care plans by proactively identifying and appropriately addressing social and emotional factors related to the patient’s care
• Maintain working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources; assessing and appropriately referring patients / families
• Develop, prepare, and maintain individualized patient care progress records with accuracy, timeliness, and in accordance with policies and compliance 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree - level clinician in Social Work (MSW)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker in good standing
• 2 years of Social Work experience, post Master's degree
• A current and unencumbered license or certification to practice as a social worker in the state assigned
• Ability to work within a team-oriented, dynamic environment to achieve goals and meet deadlines 
• Ability to assimilate, analyze, draw conclusions, and make recommendations from complex data 
• Ability to work and provide high quality patient care in a virtual/telehealth environment
• Proven highest level of ethics and integrity 
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication, listening, and social skills
• Comfortable with technology; willing and able to learn new software tools 
• Ability to travel between patient’s homes in assigned territory, daily. Limited overnight stays
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Palliative care or hospice experience
• Experience working with patient and families dealing with serious illness and death
• Experience working with community resources
• Bilingual or multi-lingual

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Careers with Prospero. Here's the idea. The healthcare community has one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So, when it comes to how we use the accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage healthcare decisions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Prospero brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Prospero, incredible passion to serve together with the best tools and resources to help our patients live their best life now.

Prospero is transforming the status quo of advanced illness and approaching end-of-life care – we want our patients to live their best lives now, and we advocate for our team members to do the same. We provide equitable opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, religion, gender, sex, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and experiences; and we encourage all team members to come to work as their authentic selves. Supported and informed by Prospero’s interdisciplinary team committed to inclusion and diversity, Prosperity: A Coalition for Change, Prospero continues to grow by offering programs designed specifically for minority groups to guarantee equity within our organization.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.