Bilingual Medical Coordinator

Rooted in our Christian faith, Bethany Christian Services works to ensure children are safe, loved, and connected through family. Across 29 states, we strengthen families, support foster care and adoption, and walk alongside refugees with compassion. Here, living out your faith means using your gifts to bring hope and make a lasting impact.

As a Bilingual Medical Coordinator, you’ll walk alongside unaccompanied children as they seek family reunification, older youth preparing for adulthood in a new country, and foster families who give these children a home away from home.

• How Your Role Makes a Difference
• Arrange and coordinate appropriate health services, including urgent, emergent, and preventative health services for children in care. This includes maintaining complete, confidential medical records for children, ensuring appropriate communication of health needs to case managers and clinicians, scheduling health care appointments, coordinating transportation to health care appointments, ensuring qualified interpretation and translation services are in place, and serving as a liaison for community health care providers;
• Schedules and transports youth to all medical appointments within allotted timeframe;
• Maintain and manage medical files in UC Portal and ensures all records are updated;
• Formulate treatment authorization request to Point Comfort Underwriters for unaccompanied refugee clients;
• Serve as the subject matter expert of Point Comfort Underwriters Insurance through continuous consultation and collaboration with Point Comfort Underwriter Insurance;
• Provide resources and reports upon discharge;
• Ensure documentation and filing compliance with all required forms in accordance with the agency, state licensing, and ORR; Reconcile and address all billing errors to ensure accurate billing with no profit loss;
• May need to participate in on-call to assist shelter care staff to address medical issues after business hours as dictated by program needs;
• Stay abreast of all agency, federal, and state regulatory requirements related to social services;
• Periodically travel to health care provider facilities to build positive working relationships and transport clients;
• Essential job responsibilities may vary based on the specific needs of each program/department;
• May be required or asked to participate in a Bethany sponsored event;