What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Social Worker position at Unicity Care Management?
Description
The Care Manager (CM) will manage a small caseload of private pay clients, provide coordination of services, resources and ongoing monitoring and management to clients in their home. This can include clients who are residents of Independent Living, Assisted Living or Nursing Facilities. Additionally, the Care Manager will help drive business and work with referral sources. Develops strong relationships with Community and professional organizations that will generate client referrals.
Job Duties May include:
- Maintain about 10-15 hours per week
- Perform in depth client assessments including medical, psychosocial, environmental, financial, legal and family assessment
- Complete Fall Risk Assessment, Mini Mental Status Examination and Depression Screening for each client
- Recommend and coordinate all service needs for clients
- Work with client and family to develop plan of care to ensure client safety and all other needs are addressed
- Work with client, family, and professional staff to implement plan of care
- Collaborate with hospital, nursing home and AL/memory care staff, physicians and other medical providers as well as attorneys, financial planners, meals on wheels, and other professionals in geriatric service provider world
- Perform regular home visits to monitor client status, home environment or senior community
- Provide ongoing emotional support and counseling to the client and their family as needed
- Provide problem solving support to clients and fellow care managers as needed
- Provide crisis intervention and display critical thinking/problem solving skills
- Work with business development team to meet prospective clients, families and/or referral sources
- Provide back-up support to the GCM team as needed
- Carefully track and document time that is spent on each client to facilitate accurate billing
- Attend educational programs and networking events
Job requirements.
- Licensed Social Worker with 7-10 years of experience working in Geriatrics
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Valid Driver’s License and dependable personal vehicle
- Company sponsored Health Insurance (Medical/Dental/Vision)
- Voluntary life insurance, Short Term Disability, AD&D insurance
- 401K with company match
- 15 PTO days a year/ paid company holidays
- Company cell phone & Company Computer
- Hybrid position with flexible schedule