Care Manager

Talentify; Town of Mount Pleasant (NY); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development stipend

Job summary

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

You will work in a hybrid environment with home visits, office trainings, and occasional remote work. Strong relational and organizational skills are essential, and fluency in multiple languages may come with additional compensation.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, including verbal and written communication, along with strong interpersonal and organizational skills also required.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and verbal and written communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for members to ensure informed decision making and guardianship.
• Schedule and lead interdisciplinary meetings to develop Life Plans.
• Implement and monitor Life Plans and conduct reviews.
• Coordinate supports across medical, behavioral, social, habilitation, dental, psychosocial, and community-based services.
• Maintain ongoing contact with the critical people in a member’s life.
• Submit Life Plan and progress notes timely.
• Assist with benefits such as Social Security, SSI, Medicaid and Medicare.
• Help resolve housing, utilities, safety and other living issues.
• Report abuse or neglect immediately.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Verbal & written communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years experience

RN license with 2+ years experience

Master’s degree with 1+ year experience

Job description

Overview

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 ADITIONAL 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

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.

Salary starting at

$29.25 / hour

Salary up to

$30.49 / hour