Wellness Coordinator Chelsea; Bi-lingual English-Spanish

Job Description:

Hebrew Senior Life provides enhanced housing with services to seniors living in its four affordable housing locations, and at partner housing sites, with the goal of improving quality of life and supporting independent living. At its core, enhanced housing with services is a proactive approach wherein resident services staff regularly and actively reach out to each individual resident to engage with them around their health and wellness, identify areas of need/risk and provide intensive, individualized case management and support as needed and desired by the resident.

The Wellness Coordinator (WC) serves a lead role in the R3 program, engaging residents in wellness assessments and health education programs, connecting residents to needed services, providing a wide variety of case management tasks, coordinating activities with the Nurse Care Manager, and ensuring that all interventions are documented and tracked.

The Wellness Coordinator is directly responsible for assuring that there is excellent communication and coordination with all partners, including emergency responders, payers and local providers to support residents in living independently, safely - and well - for as long as possible.
This position is to work on-site at an affordable housing community in Chelsea. The position requires fluency in Spanish as the majority of the resident population is Spanish-speaking.

Hebrew Senior Life employees set the highest standard in our commitment to redefine the experience of aging. With compassion, resilience, and determination, we make a difference in the lives of patients, residents, their families, and the broad senior care community every day. And they in ours as well. These life-changing connections give our work meaning and fuel our desire to advance our potential.

To be all that we can be. At Hebrew Senior Life, that’s uniquely possible. Because here we’re supported to always keep growing. And as we do, so does our collective impact.

Our Benefits Include

· Excellent medical and dental benefits, available on your first day for positions over 24 hours/week

· A 403b retirement plan open to all employees, including per diems

· Generous paid time off

· On-site health and wellness programming

· Tuition reimbursement and scholarships

· An employee recognition program

Core Competencies:

· Commit to the organization’s core values of respect, dignity and empowerment.

· Able to form trusting relationships with residents, families, and team members.

· Work collaboratively with colleagues, both within and outside the HSL continuum.

· Listen attentively; speak respectfully; maintain confidentiality.

· Provide the highest quality of preparation and presentation.

· Have a “can-do” service mentality.

· Accept responsibility for all tasks assigned.

· Work independently toward achieving program goals

Position Responsibilities:

· Conduct wellness assessments of residents to determine needs and goals; develop wellness plans addressing physical, social, cognitive, spiritual and mental health domains.

· Coordinate with primary care physicians, mental health providers and hospitals.

· Partner with housing staff to tailor programming that meets resident needs.

· Educate housing staff members including office, maintenance, housekeeping, programming. and dietary staff to identify and communicate concerning changes in residents’ condition.

· Coordinate with residents to complete files including important health care information, end of life planning, and emergency contacts.

· Support on site services and connection to required off site services by following up with at risk residents to ensure adherence to health and wellness related activities.

· Develop relationships with all payers serving seniors in the sites.

· Implement effective communication systems between housing and providers to relay important information (changes in condition, transitions between settings, changes in behavior/activity).

· Promote self-care among residents through individualized coaching to identify personal goals and implement programs and services that support those goals as well as coordinate with care providers.

· Partner with and make…