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Do you want to be part of solving the impossible in healthcare while meeting your clients in their home environment? Do you want to be a trusted champion to uncover and solve all aspects of caregiving? Do you want to be an unstoppable force for families? If so then you should check out this Care Management & Licensed Counselor opportunity with Villageplan.
Who We Are
With over 30 years of combined experience, Villageplan™ provides the highest level of care and service, made possible only by hiring exceptional people who represent Villageplan’s core values, mission, and vision; that everyone should have access to an expert to help them navigate the challenge of caregiving and care services. We do this by changing the way people care for aging loved ones!
If our mission and values speak to you…we’d love for you to Apply with Us!
Position Details
The Professional Care Manager & Counselor works autonomously, using discretion and independent judgement to provide clients, families, or vulnerable populations with medical and psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Includes administering client assessments, care planning, advising families care givers, providing patient education and counseling and making necessary referrals for other social services. Counselor specific duties to include individual or family counseling.
Job Duties
- Complete a thorough assessment of each client and develop a care plan tailored to the client’s needs
- Advocate for clients or patients to resolve crises.
- Collaborate with other professionals to evaluate patients’ medical or physical conditions and to assess client needs.
- Ability to demonstrate strong clinical counseling skills
- Refer patient, client, or family to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as financial assistance, legal aid, housing, job placement or education.
- Counsel clients and patients in individual and group sessions to help them overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life.
- Utilize consultation data and social work experience to plan coordinate client or patient care and rehabilitation, following through to ensure service efficacy.
- Coordinate with discharge planners.
- Organize support groups and counsel family members to assist them in understanding and/or processing life transitions.
- Modify plan of care to comply with changes in clients’ status.
- Monitor, evaluate, and record client progress according to measurable goals described in treatment and care plan.
- Identify environmental impediments to client or patient progress through interviews and review of patient records.
- Refer VP services to individuals in need of assistance.
- Accurately document, chart and record clients billing information, billable hours, and client notes.
- Successfully complete all billable expectations and billing requirements.
- Participate in legal proceedings (depositions, court appearances) as needed.
- Travel as required
Qualifications
- Degreed and License/Certification without restrictions:
- Licensed Social Worker or Mental Health Counselor
- Gerontology
- Social Work (BSW/MSW)
- Psychology (Masters in Psychology)
