Social Work Care Manager & Patient Advocate (LSW/LCSW) - Full Time

About the role

Why social workers take this role: This is care management with real autonomy. You will carry a small, intimate private-pay caseload — deliberately kept that way — so you actually know your clients: their history, their family dynamics, what a good day looks like for them. You will build your own schedule around your visits and exercise real professional judgment, without a discharge queue, a productivity dashboard, or a supervisor assigning your day.

Unicity Care Management supports individuals and families through the healthcare decisions that matter most — a new diagnosis, a complicated hospital discharge, a chronic condition that has outgrown what one family can coordinate on its own. Our clients range widely in age and circumstance. What they share is a moment where the healthcare system has become more than they can navigate alone. As a Social Work Care Manager and Patient Advocate, you are the person your clients and their families call first. You will:

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive in-home assessments covering functional, cognitive, psychosocial, and environmental needs
• Develop and maintain individualized care plans, revising them as circumstances change
• Coordinate physicians, home care, specialists, and community resources into a single coherent plan
• Support clients and families through transitions of care, closing the gaps where people are most often lost
• Provide emotional support and crisis intervention at the moments families need it most
• Advocate for clients at appointments, care conferences, and points of decision
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the clients on your caseload, including responding to urgent needs that arise outside standard business hours
• This is a field-based role requiring regular travel and is not an in-office position. Provides high-touch, concierge-level nursing support to clients, including accompanying clients to medical appointments and other care-related visits as needed

Requirements

• Active Licensed Social Worker (LSW or LCSW) in New Jersey
• A genuine interest in working alongside families, not only clients
• Sound professional judgment in community settings, where the resources of an institution are not at hand
• Strong written and verbal communication; you will be the clearest voice in the room for families under stress
• Organizational discipline to manage an independent caseload and maintain accurate documentation
• A collaborative approach to working with physicians, providers, and community partners
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation for field visits

Benefits

• Dedicated company phone number — clients reach you on a company line, not your personal number
• Laptop provided
• Mileage and tolls reimbursed
• Health, dental, and vision coverage sponsored by the company
• Safe harbor 401(k) — company contributions are fully vested from day one, with no waiting period to earn them
• 15+ PTO days plus paid holidays
• Voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, and AD&D coverage

Pay

$75,000-$85,000 base, plus a monthly performance bonus earned on billable hours and paid every month, never deferred to year-end.

Schedule

No hospital pace. Weekdays, hybrid, with genuine flexibility in how you build your week.