Care Managers | Adults - Maimonides Medical Center : Job Details

Care Managers | Adults

Full Time

THE BEST CAREERS. RIGHT HERE

@ BROOKLYN'S LEADING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

MAIMONIDES: TOP TEN IN THE U.S. FOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES

We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and provide patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

As part of the Maimonides Medical Center Care Management team, you will join a team of dedicated professionals engaged in the rewarding work of providing compassionate care to a diverse population. We currently seek qualified Care Managers to have day-to-day responsibility for coordinating the activities of the care team for patients with social needs, complex medical and/or psychiatric co-morbid conditions and for facilitating patients' access to the full range of medical and psychosocial services in an efficient and effective manner.

In addition, you will:

· Work closely with the interdisciplinary care team including PCP, psychiatrist, therapist, residential services, substance abuse treatment program, social service providers, etc.

· Work closely with the Care Navigator to ensure the flow of information across and between the care team is optimized.

· Provide input to providers/patient/family for written individualized care plans

· Review patient intake assessment and use results to coordinate the completion of the care plan, self-management goals and strategies; document in EMR

· Evaluate medication compliance and assess potential barriers to adherence; ensure medication reconciliation is current

· Receive alerts to inpatient and ER admissions of targeted patients, visit patients during inpatient stays and participate actively in discharge planning and care transition activities; contact patients on the day of discharge

· Outreach to patients to facilitate keeping scheduled appointments; arrange for metabolic and periodic preventive screening

· Provide provision of self-management/ wellness education, peer and other support groups in the language family prefers.

· Organize and participate in case conferences on a periodic basis.

· Review benefits, entitlements, housing with the patient/family and assist in the application process.

· Conduct regular visits with patients in the community including home visits, escorts to medical and behavioral health appointments,

We require:

· BA/BS degree

· 2-5 Experience in healthcare, social work, social services, case management, discharge planning or third-party experience preferred, but not required.

· Experience working with individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or chronic medical conditions

· Computer literacy include word processing, spreadsheet and database programs

· Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

· Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving and decision-making skills

· Field work required.

· Bilingual preferred: Urdu/Bengali/Spanish/Fujianese

Grant funded position. SALARY: 33.42 - 37.64 based on experience. We are an approved site for NYS social work continuing education credits.

Monday-Friday. For immediate consideration, please send resume/CV to [email protected]

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.