Full Time Social Worker
Unicity Senior Advisors
Paramus, new jersey
Job Details
Full-time
Full Job Description
The Geriatric Care Manager (GCM) will manage a small caseload of private pay clients, provide coordination of services, resources and on going monitoring and management to clients in their home. This can include clients who are residents of Independent Living, Assisted Living or Nursing Facilities.
Job Duties May include:
- Perform in depth client assessments including medical, psychosocial, environmental, and family assessment
- Complete Fall Risk Assessment, Mini Mental Status Examination and Depression Screening for each client
- 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 professionals in geriatric service provider world
- Perform regular home visits to monitor client status, home environment or senior community
- Give 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
- Give back-up support to the GCM team as needed
- Carefully track and document time that is spent on each client to facilitate accurate billing
Requirements
Job requirements.
- Social worker with 5+ years of experience working in Geriatrics
- Active/valid NJ LSW or LCSW license
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Valid Driver’s License and dependable personal vehicle
Benefits
Benefits
- Company sponsored Health Insurance (Medical/Dental/Vision)
- Voluntary life insurance, Short Term Disability, AD&D insurance
- 401K with company match
- 20+ PTO days a year/ paid company holidays
- Monthly Commission payout
- Mileage reimbursement
- Company cell phone & Microsoft Surface
- Hybrid position with flexible schedule and ability to work from home when not visiting clients.