Community Services Case Manager

Description

Make a difference in the lives of adults with disabilities and older persons by providing advocacy for them to remain in the setting of their choice! The Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities of SW WA is part of the national network of Area Agencies on Aging, a public service agency dedicated to helping persons aged 60 and over, adults with disabilities and their families to access needed community services in Clark, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, Klickitat, and Skamania Counties.

Full-time

• Family friendly M-F day schedule, no holiday or on-call work.
• FLSA:
  Non-Exempt
• Reports to:
  
  Community Services Supervisor
• Supervisory Responsibilities:
  
  None
• Pay Grade: 20B

Assess needs of clients utilizing standardized assessment tools. Clients include family caregivers, older persons and adults with disabilities. Develop and administer client centered service plans which will result in maintaining the client (or client’s care receiver) at the highest level of independent living possible. Authorize and obtain in-home and community based services in accordance with the client’s service plan. Support unpaid caregivers who have primary responsibility for the care or supervision of an adult (age 18 or older) with one or more functional disabilities.

• maintain their independence in the community.
• be diverted from nursing home or other institutional settings.
• make a timely return home following a short hospital or residential stay.
• remain at home with support.

• Assess clients using standardized assessment tools to include CLC Get Care and TCARE.
• Develop a person-centered plan of care with identified outcomes.
• Authorization of in-home and community services in accordance with client’s service plan.
• Promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and access to programs to those with the greatest economic and social need, minorities, those who care for or who have dementia, persons at risk of institutionalization, those who have non-dominant-culture relationships or family dynamics, and those who care for or who are 60 years of age or older or living with a disability.
• Implement evidence-based programs.
• Provide support to clients when transitioning from one setting to another.
• Provide resolution of client directed concerns with service delivery quality.
• Referral to and coordination with providers of community services which may include mental health, adult day care, Veterans Administration and disability service organizations.
• Service plan termination and follow-up.
• Utilize agency nursing staff for case consultation, service plan development and provider oversight.
• Maintenance of client records.
• Assist in promoting Family Caregiver and Community Services programs.

• While performing assessments in varied residential environments, the employee travels by automobile and is exposed to changing weather conditions.
• A portion of the work is in a typical interior/office work environment.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, stand, walk, sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands or arms.
• The employee occasionally lifts or moves up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Master’s Degree in behavioral or health science and one year paid on the job social service experience OR
• Bachelor’s Degree in behavioral or health sciences and two years of paid on the job social service experience OR
• Bachelor’s Degree and…