Service Coordinator

Description:

Venture Forthe, Inc. is a premium person-centered agency, helping individuals with disabilities live independently. We believe in hiring great people to do meaningful work — and it starts with you.

Venture Forthe is one of the largest and fastest-growing Licensed Home Care Agencies. We are looking to add a Service Coordinator to our team to provide services in the Madison, Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, and Herkimer county areas. Preferred candidate would reside in the Utica, NY area.

The Service Coordinator assists the participant in the development, implementation, and monitoring of all services in the Service Plan Services may include Medicaid State Plan services, non-Medicaid federal, state and locally funded services, as well as educational, vocational, social, and medical services. The goal is to increase the participant’s independence, productivity, and integration into the community while maintaining the health and welfare of the individual.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assists the prospective participant to become a waiver participant
• Updates and submit timely Service Plans
• Supporting the participant to become an effective self-advocate and problem solver
• Organizing and facilitating Team Meetings
• Maintaining records for at least seven years after termination of waiver services
• Assuring that the Level of Care (LOC) is completed annually and as needed
• Travel to monthly face to face meetings with participants
• Continued communication with the participants service team on a monthly basis to ensure satisfaction of services and safety
• Maintaining records of waiver transportation

Benefits to the position:

• work independently
• hybrid: remote/office/in person visits with clients
• create your own schedule that works for you and your clients

Employer Paid Benefits (Eligibility Criteria)

• Health insurance (with employer contribution)
• Life Insurance

Employee Optional Benefits (Eligibility Criteria)

• Vision insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Short term disability supplement
• Critical illness
• Flexible Spending Account/DCA
• Health Saving Account
• Employer Assistance Program
• Hospital indemnity
• Employee Discount Programs
• Sick & Personal Time
• 401k w/ match, and more, plus room for growth and advancement!

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS:

• An eligible applicant for this position would be required to have a valid NYS Driver’s license with the ability to travel to where their applicants/participants live.
• Vetted ability to successfully work independently to submit timely documentation required to complete SC job tasks.
• Vetted ability to successfully manage community resources required to build Service plans and assist with SC training and resources for the team.
• Vetted ability to manage a full caseload, proven ability to understand Waiver rules and ability to educate others on said rules.

One of the following 3 options must be met:

1.) Persons self-employed or employed as Service Coordinators must be a/an:

• Licensed Master Social Worker (Licensed by the NYS Education Department);
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Licensed by the NYS Education Department);
• Individual with a Doctorate or Master of Social Work;
• Individual with a Doctorate or Master of Psychology;
• Individual with a Master of Gerontology;
• Physical Therapist (Licensed by the NYS Education Department);
• Registered Professional Nurse (Licensed by the NYS Education Department);
• Certified Teacher of Students with Disabilities (Certified by the NYS Education Department);
• Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (Certified by the Commission of Rehabilitation Counselor Certification);
• Licensed Speech Pathologist (Licensed by the NYS Education Department); OR
• Occupational Therapist (Licensed by the NYS Education Department).

An individual meeting any of the qualifications above must also have, at a minimum, one (1) year of experience providing case management/service coordination and information, linkages, and referrals regarding community-based services for individuals with disabilities and/or seniors.

2.) Persons self-employed or employed as Service Coordinators who have a Bachelor’s degree must have three (3) years of experience providing case management/service coordination, information, linkages, and referrals regarding community-based services for individuals with disabilities and/or seniors.

3.) Persons self-employed or employed as Service Coordinators who have an Associate’s degree must have five (5) years’ experience providing case management/service coordination, information, linkages and referrals regarding community-based services for individuals with disabilities and/or seniors.

TRAVEL: Ability to travel frequently to client's homes throughout the Madison, Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, and Herkimer county areas. Ability to travel to Venture Forthe's Syracuse office as needed and Buffalo office for initial training.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

LIGHT WORK: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

Venture Forthe Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of any kind: Venture Forthe, Inc. is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.