Adult's Health Home Care Manager Floater

Job Details

Job Location

66 Boerum Place, 66 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 - Brooklyn, NY

Position Type

Full-Time

Education Level

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Salary Range

$25.20 - $26.16 Hourly

Travel Percentage

Up to 75%

Job Shift

Day

Description

HeartShare St.Vincents is looking for a Care Manager Floater for our Integrated Health Department!The Care manager has overall day to day responsibility for coordinating the activities of the care team for clients with complex medical and / or psychiatric co-morbid conditions and for facilitating clients' access to the full range of medical and psychosocial services in an efficient and effective manner.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions of Position :

• Use positive approaches when handling difficult situations.
• Remains flexible and adapts to change.
• Serves as a role model for program participants.
• Remains sensitive and responsive to cultural differences of program participants and staff.
• Participates in multi-disciplinary case conferences and projects, demonstrating team spirit and ability to work with other community-based organizations to meet clients' needs.
• Works closely with the interdisciplinary care team including PCP, psychiatrist, therapist, residential services, substance abuse treatment program, ACT Team, etc.
• Provides input to providers / client / family for written individualized care plans.
• In conjunction with the client, identifies potential barriers to care and resolutions to those barriers; outreaches to clients who have not met treatment goals to resolve barriers / adjust goals when possible.
• Evaluate medication compliance and assess potential barriers to adherence; ensure medication reconciliation is current
• Receives alerts for ER admissions of assigned clients, visits clients during admission and participatesactively in discharge planning and care transition activities; and contacts clients on the day of discharge from client services and ER or within 24 hours
• Outreaches to clients to facilitate keeping scheduled appointments; arranges for metabolic and periodic preventivescreening, per evidence-based guideline standards
• Coordinates services between client and extended care team providers to ensure that integrated care plan is fullyimplemented
• Regularly reviews client information from care team members to identify clients requiring outreach and engagement, and identifies quality of care issues and refers appropriately.
• Provides or arranges for provision of self-management / wellness education, peer and other support groups in thelanguage that the client / family prefers.
• Reviews benefits, entitlements, housing with the client / family and assist in the application process. Follows up asnecessary to ensure services are approved.
• Complete outreach to clients to enroll into services if there is a decrease in current caseload.
• Adhere to all government and funder regulations.

Qualifications

Benefits

At HeartShare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time / part-time status. You can expect :

HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out to Leaves@heartshare.org.

About Heartshare

Who WE ARE :

For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated.

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