Associate Care Manager

About the role

The associate/assistant care manager assists the care manager to coordinate the care of Life with Dignity’s clients and their families. Work is supervised by a certified care manager.

Responsibilities

• Helps to implement and monitor the care plan as directed by the primary care manager.
• May help arrange for all necessary services and monitor the client in conjunction with the certified care manager.

Requirements

• Geriatric Experience: Aware of major issues of aging, knowledge and experience of interfacing with community resources, experience working in a long-term care setting or hospital preferred.
• Organizational Skills: Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage priorities to meet agency standards.
• Team Player: Ability to work and collaborate with peers, willingness to share responsibility for the well-being of all agency clients.
• Technology: Comfort level with word processing, computer functions, and telephone communication systems, ability to operate Word, Excel, and other related software programs.
• Business Acumen: Strong sense of understanding that work is a valuable and billable service.
• General Knowledge: Knowledge, skills, and abilities required for this position include business English, ability to follow company standard operating procedures, type proficiently, and maintain internal records.
• Professionalism: Professional presentation and dress, ability to learn quickly, function as a collaborative team member, maintain effective working relationships, maintain confidentiality, interpret and handle routing matters in accordance with established procedures, follow oral and written instructions.
• Personal Characteristics: Willingness to ask for help, organized, able to manage and follow through with paperwork and maintaining client records, good writing and communication skills, thorough, responsible, efficient, responsive, flexible personality and schedule, enjoys driving and has a good driving record, owns a reliable car, enjoys working with people, enjoys working with families, enjoys working in crisis situations, has a knowledge of medical issues, enjoys seniors, has a sense of humor, is calm, good listening skills, energetic, enjoys having fun at work.

Pay

$0.18 per hour

Schedule

N/A