Care Manager

Care Design New York; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision and dental insurance

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement $3000 per year

Professional development up to $250

Job summary

Care Design New York is seeking a Care Manager to help people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities identify and realize their life goals by developing, implementing, and monitoring person-centered Life Plans in partnership with members and their families.

The role is hybrid, combining home visits, trainings, and office work; bilingual candidates may receive additional compensation for language fluency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience or RN license with 2+ years
• Master's degree with 1+ year of relevant experience
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational abilities

Responsibilities

• Advocate for members to support informed decision making and appropriate guardianship
• Schedule, lead, and collaborate with members and interdisciplinary team to develop Life Plans
• Update and monitor Life Plans and conduct reviews and approvals
• Coordinate integration of medical, behavioral, social, habilitation and other supports
• Maintain ongoing contact with important people in a member's life
• Submit Life Plan and progress notes in a timely manner
• Assist members in maintaining benefits (SSI, Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps)
• Help members resolve housing, utilities, safety and other living problems
• Report abuse or neglect immediately when observed or reported
• Interview process may provide a comprehensive job description

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree with 2+ years

RN license with 2+ years

Master's degree with 1+ year

Job description

As a Care Design New York Care Manager, you will help people with intellectual and/or development 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.

All full-time positions come with generous benefits including health, vision and dental insurance, paid time off, $3000 tuition reimbursement per calendar year, and up to $250 of professional development courses! CDNY is also a qualifying employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

• Responsible for advocating for and with our members to ensure informed decision making, informed consent, and appropriate guardianship.
• Responsible for scheduling, leading and actively collaborating with our 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.
• Implement, update, and monitor Life Plans and facilitate individualized Life Plan reviews and approval processes.
• Ensure 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.).
• Maintain ongoing contact with the critical people in a member's life.
• Ensure timely submission of all documentation (Life Plan, Progress notes, etc.)
• Assist our members with maintaining benefits such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Medicare coverage, and Food Stamps.
• Assist members to resolve problems in living such as housing, utilities, the judicial system, and general safety.
• Report abuse or neglect immediately when observed or reported.
• A comprehensive job description may be provided during the interview process

Care Managers who serve individuals with I/DD must meet the following qualifications

• 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 also required.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and verbal and written communication skills required.

Care Design NY and Partnership Solutions provide equal employment opportunities to all.

We celebrate the qualities that make each of us unique and greatly value how they enrich the work we do. As such, we welcome candidates of color, candidates who identify as gender diverse, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates of all ages with diverse lived experiences and perspectives to apply.

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