Care Manager (Bilingual Spanish)

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for and with our members to ensure informed decision making, informed consent, and appropriate guardianship.
• Schedule, lead, and actively collaborate 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.).
• Aid our members with maintaining benefits such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Medicare coverage, and Food Stamps.
• Aid 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.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree with two (2) years of relevant experience, OR
• A License as a Registered Nurse with two 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 one year of relevant experience.

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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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!

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.

Pay

$32.00 / hour

Schedule

$33.24 / hour