Care Coordinator (1099 Contract)

Cerebral and Resilience Lab have joined forces to

build a new standard in mental health care

—one that emphasizes better outcomes through

stronger clinical decision-making

, rigorous training, and professional excellence. By combining Resilience Lab’s Methodology & clinically-led training Institute with Cerebral’s extensive reach, clinical network, and care capabilities, we are creating a national model for high-quality, integrated, and accessible behavioral health care.

We believe quality mental health care starts with curiosity, professionalism, and mastery of clinical decision-making. Joining our team means committing to show up on your best foot every day where you’ll be equipped with structured training, supportive supervision, and a methodology designed to guide you in making sound clinical decisions.

The Role

A Care Coordinator is not a scheduler or support agent. This role sits at the highest-friction point in the care journey and helps people move from uncertainty to committed action. Care Coordinators guide prospective patients who often know they need help, but do not yet know what kind, whether they are ready, or how to move forward. The role requires judgment, emotional attunement, ambiguity handling, and the ability to translate vague help-seeking into a clear, appropriate next step. This is a revenue-critical function. The quality of the interaction directly shapes conversion quality, attended first sessions, match quality, and retention.

This is a 1099 Independent Contractor position working 30-35 hours per week.

Contractor should provide some availability Monday - Friday 5:00pm-9:00pm and/or weekends (Saturday & Sunday) from 10:00am-6:00pm.

Who You Are

Conduct high-judgment care consults with prospective patients seeking mental health support

Help patients make sense of what they are experiencing, even when their needs are vague, emotionally loaded, or only partially formed

Clarify patient needs and guide them toward the right provider type, modality, or level of care

Build readiness and reduce hesitation by normalizing help-seeking, lowering activation barriers, and helping patients feel understood

Translate uncertainty into action by helping patients commit to a clear next step in care

Reinforce the decision to seek care across key handoffs, including pre-booking, post-booking, and pre-session moments where drop-off risk is high

Use structured tools, matching logic, and available context to improve fit while preserving a highly human, relational interaction

Document key consult insights clearly so the broader system can preserve the clarity and commitment created during the conversation

Partner closely with clinical, product, operations, and support teams to reduce pathway friction and improve continuity across the care journey

What success looks like

More prospective patients convert into attended first sessions

Patients enter care with stronger readiness and clearer expectations

Provider and modality matching improves

No-show and early churn rates decrease

The care journey becomes more reliable across handoffs, not just more active at the top of funnel

What Makes Someone Strong In This Role

Exceptional listening skills, including the ability to hear what is uncertain, unspoken, or only partially formed

Strong judgment in ambiguous, emotionally complex conversations

Ability to respond dynamically to tone, pace, hesitation, and distress in real time

Comfort guiding people who do not yet have a clear mental model of what kind of care they need

Ability to build trust quickly and create the conditions under which a person feels safe enough to move forward

Strong communication skills that balance warmth, clarity, confidence, and precision

Ability to make nuanced fit decisions without relying on rigid scripts or premature closure

Strong follow-through and documentation habits

Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment where performance is tied to real downstream outcomes

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, public health, or a related field preferred

Experience in mental health care navigation, care coordination, intake, patient engagement, admissions, case management, crisis-adjacent support, or another high-empathy, high-judgment patient-facing role

Strong mental health literacy, including familiarity with common diagnoses, treatment modalities, provider types, and levels of care

Demonstrated ability to handle emotionally complex or ambiguous conversations with empathy and sound judgment

Experience influencing action, reducing hesitation, or supporting people through high-stakes decisions is strongly preferred

Experience In A Startup, Digital Health, Or Operationally Complex Environment Is A Plus

What this role is not

A call center role

A purely administrative scheduling role

A script-driven customer support position

A generic intake function measured only on speed or volume

How this role is measured

Consult-to-booking conversion

Attended first session rate

Early retention / second-session continuation

Match quality

No-show reduction

Quality of documentation and handoff continuity

Who We Are (our Company Values)

We Deliver Client Impact

Relentlessly focusing on advancing personalized, high-quality, evidence-based care that improves people's lives

We Are One

Bringing our collective expertise together as a unified team, strengthened by collaboration, trust, diversity of thought and shared purpose

We Aim Higher

Continuously curious to drive our learning, our innovation and our personal growth to reach our full potential

We Are Generous

Giving more than we take with compassion, empathy, support, openness and a willingness to help those in need

We Are Accountable

Acting with courage, conviction and integrity to achieve our goals and ambitions to improve the lives of our clients

Cerebral is committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our workplace.

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Cerebral, Inc. is a management services organization that provides health information technology, information management system, and non-clinical administrative support services for various medical practices, including Cerebral Medical Group, PA and its affiliated practices (CMG), who are solely responsible for providing and overseeing all clinical matters. Cerebral, Inc. does not provide healthcare services, employ any healthcare provider, own any medical practice (including CMG), or control or attempt to control any provider or the provision of any healthcare service. “Cerebral” is the brand name commonly used by Cerebral, Inc. and CMG.