Elder Services Case Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Your Team

Your team supports the aging adults and adults with disabling conditions by providing case management, coordinated care, caregiver support, and access to the Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) through a collaborative partnership with the RI Department of Human Services (RIDHS), the Office of Healthy Aging (OHA), and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS).

What You’ll Be Doing

You will work collaboratively with the Office of Healthy Aging (OHA) to provide case management services to clients who are part of the Office of Healthy Aging and Department of Human Services (DHS).

The Case Manager provides in-home visits, monthly calls, and assists with care coordination to ensure client needs are addressed.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily :

• Manages cases assigned by the program’s Intake Coordinator.
• Conducts initial and ongoing in-home assessments to determine care needs.
• Creates care plans and recommends services to address individual needs.
• Follow ups with clients after the initial plan is implemented to reassess needs as appropriate.
• Collaborates with family / caregivers, service providers, and local authorities as necessary.
• Completes all paperwork promptly and maintains accurate client needs.
• Advocates for services to meet clients’ needs.

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities :

• Associate’s degree in social work or related field required; bachelor's degree in social work or related field preferred.
• Minimum 1 year’s experience in a case management position required.
• Experience working with the elderly population preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff (Travel as part of position) :

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and / or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Travel Requirements

Site location : Middletown & Providence

Statewide travel required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies :

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies :

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experiences by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities LGBTQ+ communities and others.

o Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

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