Job Description:
MAKE A DIFFERENCE with us.
Put your social services skills to work in a mission-driven environment.
About Us
Northwest Senior and Disability Services is seeking a social services
worker to manage a set of consumer cases. Our agency is an innovative
and forward thinking with a deep commitment to helping others. We are
looking for someone who believes in serving the seniors and adults
with disabilities in our community.
If you live with integrity and are professional, compassionate, and
customer-service-oriented you are the type of person we want to
hire. We live these principles every day, in all we do. These are our
core values.
Recruitment #: 423-03-24
Closes: Open Until Filled (Last
day for internal lateral transfer: 3/18/24)
Location: McMinnville, OR - OPI Unit
Salary: Starting at $4,349 with
excellent benefits (See below)
Agency Sponsored: Medical/Dental 100% paid for
employee and 90-98% for dependents: generous Paid-time off, Public
Employee Retirement (PERS), Employee Assistance Plan, Long Term
Disability, great culture.
Employee paid: Deferred Compensation, Life Insurance,
Short Term Disability, Colonial Life Supplemental Plans, Legal Shield.
General Description
Performs professional-level work in the provision of social services
for a caseload comprised of seniors and/or adults with disabilities.
This case manager position will have a focus on OPI cases.
Essential Functions
- Collaborate with other staff members
- Assess consumers’ non-financial needs for specific social services
- Develop consumer care plans in accordance with regulations
- Monitor and update the consumers’ care plan
- Provide customer service to the consumer according to privacy regulations
- Collaborate with a broad range of social service entities
1.
Collaborate with other staff members
- Communicate regularly with other staff members to fully comprehend
and work to meet a consumer’s needs
- Read and understand the information in the consumer’s record
including written narration and collaborate with others to meet the
consumer’s needs
- Take advice and suggestions from quality assurance subject-matter
experts, peer mentors, and supervisors regarding ambiguous case situations
2.
Assess consumers’ non-financial needs for specific social services
- Interview consumers about their physical and cognitive activities
of daily living to determine a service-eligibility level
- Apply a consumer’s financial eligibility to their nonfinancial
eligibility to recommend the most appropriate services for the consumer
- Use proprietary software to enter data about the consumer and
their service-eligibility including written narration (Oregon
ACCESS, Consumer Assessment and Planning System (CAPS), etc.)
- Complete all related forms
- Meet agency reporting requirements
- Participates in quality assurance case reviews to ensure accuracy
of case manager’s work
3.
Develop consumer care plans in accordance with regulations
- Develop a case management plan for each consumer on the caseload
- Find all necessary case data and then analyze the data to
formulate an appropriate plan
- Coordinate the delivery of services to consumers according to case
management plans
- Help to arrange in-home, residential, or assisted-living care
services; medical supplies, equipment, or transportation; etc. for
the consumer
- Assist the consumer to alleviate serious environmental, medical,
or social problems
4.
Monitor and update the consumers’ care plan
according to the changing care needs of consumers
- Modify case management plans and delivery of services according to
agency policy
- Assess and monitor risk and work with consumers to eliminate or
reduce risk
- Enter consumer data into the appropriate database software and
consult other State computer systems (Oregon ACCESS, ONE, etc.)
- Enter written narrative of the consumer’s ongoing needs
- Complete and process all required documentation to establish and
maintain consumer benefits
- Facilitate and monitor provider payments and quality of services
- Provides supervisor with monthly case count reports
5.
Provide customer service to the consumer according to privacy regulations
- Understand and commit to follow rules governing consumer
confidentiality, privacy, provider records, and investigations
- Use good judgment, courtesy, and tact when working with internal
and external customers
- Understand and respond to requests from internal and external
customers, social service professionals, and/or the general public
in compliance with privacy laws
- Adhere to agency standards regarding the security of and access to
private consumer information
6.
Collaborate with a broad range of social services entities
- Work with the public and private agencies and institutions that
provide social support services to seniors and adults with
disabilities, including onsite visits
- Interpret federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to
benefits and apply them accurately to assist consumers
- Advise applicants, consumers, and the general public on their
rights and responsibilities regarding assistance programs
- Know about a variety of local services such as food banks, in-home
care providers, energy assistance programs, mealsites, legal
services, etc. and connect consumers with any applicable resources
as needed
- Provide technical assistance to community resources, in-home and
medical providers, etc.
Job-Specific Skills Needed to Meet Agency Expectations
In order to best serve consumers, case managers must know, or be able
to learn:
- The problems and issues confronting the consumers the agency serves
- The state and federal laws regulating the consumer’s social services
- Casework methods and techniques to individual cases
- How to prepare concise and complete case records, documentation,
and reports
- How to use problem-solving and decision-making skills in order to
serve consumers
- Appropriate questioning strategies to interview consumers to
determine program eligibility and service needs
General Skills Needed to Meet Agency Expectations
Must be able and willing to perform the following:
- Support the agency mission and exemplify its core
values—integrity, professionalism, service, and compassion
- Serve as a mandatory reporter of suspected cases of neglect,
exploitation, and abuse of vulnerable populations as required by
policy and regulation, and make the appropriate referral to a
responsible agency such as Child or Adult Protective Services Units
- Interact and work effectively with others in a team to deliver
services to consumers
- Demonstrate good interpersonal communication skills through
written, verbal, and nonverbal communication
- Use sound organizational skills to meet deadlines in a timely,
accurate, and efficient manner
- Speak, read, write, and understand English and follow verbal and
written instruction
- Perform other work as assigned by the supervisor
(For Bilingual positions only)
Ensure Non-English speaking consumers receive services
- Communicate with and provide services to consumers whose primary
language skills are non-English
- Serve as an interpreter for the agency in the identified language
pair, including oral and written, interpreting and explaining forms,
rules, policies, etc.
- Translate written materials
