Care Manager
Care Design NY - Staten Island, NY
posted 4 days ago
About the position
As a Care Design New York Care Manager, you will help people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities identify and realize their long-term and short-term goals by developing, implementing, and monitoring their person-centered Life Plans. These plans help our members live their best life - so we'll count on your best relational and organizational skills. Our Care Managers may come from different walks of life, but all receive the best training in the profession. You will plug your passion for service into our model of care to deliver the highest standard of service to our members. This dynamic position is performed in a hybrid environment that includes required visits with members you support and their families in their home, attending periodic trainings and meetings in the office, and working from home. If you support our members outside of New York City, you will need a driver's license, reliable transportation and appropriate insurance. Our membership is diverse and so is our workforce. We welcome bilingual candidates who can support that diversity and we may provide ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION for fluency in English and languages such as Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Yiddish, Hebrew, and ASL.
Responsibilities
- Advocating for and with members to ensure informed decision making, informed consent, and appropriate guardianship.
- Scheduling, leading and actively collaborating with members and their interdisciplinary team to conduct meetings and assessments ensuring the development of a comprehensive, person-centered Life Plan that reflects the person's needs and desired life goals.
- Implementing, updating, and monitoring Life Plans and facilitating individualized Life Plan reviews and approval processes.
- Ensuring integration of all needed and preferred supports and services (i.e., medical, behavioral, social, habilitation, dental, psychosocial, and community-based, and facility-based long-term supports and services, etc.).
- Maintaining ongoing contact with the critical people in a member's life.
- Ensuring timely submission of all documentation (Life Plan, Progress notes, etc.).
- Assisting members with maintaining benefits such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Medicare coverage, and Food Stamps.
- Assisting members to resolve problems in living such as housing, utilities, the judicial system, and general safety.
- Reporting abuse or neglect immediately when observed or reported.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, OR
- A License as a Registered Nurse with 2+ years of relevant experience, which can include any employment experience and is not limited to case management/service coordination duties, OR
- A Master's degree with 1+ year of relevant experience.
- Strong communication skills, including verbal and written communication skills, along with strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
Benefits
- Health, vision and dental insurance
- Paid time off
- $3000 tuition reimbursement per calendar year
- Up to $250 of professional development courses
- Qualifying employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program
