Care Manager - Out of Area

As a Care Design New York Care Manager, you will help people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities identify and realize their long-term and short-term goals by developing, implementing, and monitoring their person-centered Life Plans. These plans help our members live their best life – so we’ll count on your best relational and organizational skills. Our Care Managers may come from different walks of life, but all receive the best training in the profession.

You will plug your passion for service into our model of care to deliver the highest standard of service to our members.

This dynamic position is performed in a hybrid environment that includes working from your home and in-person visits with members you support in New York City. You would travel to NYC once a month for about 5 days of scheduled member visits. Paid travel time and expenses are included.

Our membership is diverse and so is our workforce. We welcome bilingual candidates who can support that diversity and we may provide ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION for fluency in English and languages such as Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Yiddish, Hebrew, and ASL.

All full-time positions come with generous benefits including: health, vision and dental insurance, paid time off, $3000 tuition reimbursement per calendar year, and up to $250 of professional development courses! CDNY is also a qualifying employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

• Responsible for advocating for and with our members to ensure informed decision making, informed consent, and appropriate guardianship.
• Responsible for scheduling, leading and actively collaborating with our members and their interdisciplinary team to conduct meetings and assessments ensuring the development of a comprehensive, person-centered Life Plan that reflects the person’s needs and desired life goals.
• Implement, update, and monitor Life Plans and facilitate individualized Life Plan reviews and approval processes.
• Ensure integration of all needed and preferred supports and services (i.e., medical, behavioral, social, habilitation, dental, psychosocial, and community-based, and facility-based long-term supports and services, etc.).
• Maintain ongoing contact with the critical people in a member’s life.
• Ensure timely submission of all documentation (Life Plan, Progress notes, etc.)
• Assist our members with maintaining benefits such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Medicare coverage, and Food Stamps.
• Assist members to resolve problems in living such as housing, utilities, the judicial system, and general safety.
• Report abuse or neglect immediately when observed or reported.

Care Managers who serve individuals with I/DD must meet the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, OR
• A License as a Registered Nurse with 2+ years of relevant experience, which can include any employment experience and is not limited to case management/service coordination duties, OR
• A Master’s degree with 1+ year of relevant experience.

Strong communication skills, including verbal and written communication skills, along with strong interpersonal and organizational skills also required.

$27.75 / hr

$30.19 / hr