HeartShare St.Vincents is looking for a Care Manager for our Integrated Health Department! The Care manager has overall day to day responsibility for coordinating the activities of the care team for clients with complex medical and/ or psychiatric co-morbid conditions and for facilitating clients’ access to the full range of medical and psychosocial services in an efficient and effective manner.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions of Position:

• Use positive approaches when handling difficult situations.

• Remains flexible and adapts to change.

• Serves as a role model for program participants.

• Remains sensitive and responsive to cultural differences of program participants and staff.

• Participates in multi-disciplinary case conferences and projects, demonstrating team spirit and ability to work with other community-based organizations to meet clients’ needs.

• Works closely with the interdisciplinary care team including PCP, psychiatrist, therapist, residential services, substance

• abuse treatment program, ACT Team, etc.

• Provides input to providers/client/family for written individualized care plans.

• In conjunction with the client, identifies potential barriers to care and resolutions to those barriers; outreaches to

• clients who have not met treatment goals to resolve barriers/adjust goals when possible.

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

• Receives alerts for ER admissions of assigned clients, visits clients during admission and participates

• actively in discharge planning and care transition activities; and contacts clients on the day of discharge from client

  services and ER or within 24 hours

• Outreaches to clients to facilitate keeping scheduled appointments; arranges for metabolic and periodic preventive

• screening, per evidence-based guideline standards

• Coordinates services between client and extended care team providers to ensure that integrated care plan is fully

• implemented

• Regularly reviews client information from care team members to identify clients requiring outreach and engagement,and identifies quality of care issues and refers appropriately.

• Provides or arranges for provision of self-management/ wellness education, peer and other support groups in the

• language that the client/family prefers.

• Reviews benefits, entitlements, housing with the client/family and assist in the application process. Follows up as

• necessary to ensure services are approved.

• Complete outreach to clients to enroll into services if there is a decrease in current caseload.

• Adhere to all government and funder regulations.

• High school diploma or GED Required
• Associates preferred majoring in a Health related or Social Services field Preferred
• Minium of two years’ experience in case management or related medical field
• Ability to travel across all 5 boroughs for Home Visits Required ** With Travel / Mileage Reimbursement **

Benefits

At HeartShare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time/part-time status. You can expect:

• Rewarding Work in a team environment.
• Paid vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays.
• 403(B) retirement plans with employer contribution.
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit).
• Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.
• Tuition Assistance Program.
• Professional Development opportunities.
• Wellhub Discount
• Verizon Wireless Discount.
• BJs Membership discount.
• Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates & more

HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out to Leaves@heartshare.org.

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Who WE ARE:

For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated.

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