The Care Consultant assists persons affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders in accordance with the mission of the Association. This position goal is to significantly scale up the Chapters ability to serve persons affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders to achieve growth outlined in the strategic plan.
Areas of Responsibility:
Care Consultant primary responsibilities (90%)
- In coordination with the designated partner health system, provide high-quality consultations to new and existing patients and families either in person or virtually.
- Consultations include education for Alzheimer’s families, creation of action plan for future care needs and linkages to appropriate chapter and community resources
- Ensure high-quality program delivery (at least 90% satisfied initially) and significantly increase participation in clinical research, early-stage programs and advocacy.
- Ensure compliance with Home Office data collection and generate qualitative and quantitative reports for the partner health system.
- Provide back-up to other Alzheimer's Association Care Consultants as needed.
General responsibilities (10%)
- Serve on Alzheimer’s Association and community workgroups/committees as assigned
- Maintain case histories, service statistics and grant-related paperwork.
- Attend Alzheimer's Association and (designated health system) staff meetings as assigned.
Educational Background:
Master’s degree in Social Work; LCSW preferred
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated success providing quality clinical support to individuals with Alzheimer’s and their families with solid knowledge of dementia, dementia-related resources, constituent needs and best practices.
- Demonstrated success working with diverse populations
- Ability to work with partners to expand program utilization with an emphasis on reaching minority, high risk and underserved populations
- Excellent ability to communicate in person, print, and electronically to variable audiences
- Ability to analyze information and make timely, appropriate decisions
- Ability to clearly communicate the mission ensuring everyone works toward the same goals.
- Demonstrated proficiency in use of technology essential to job function.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple projects at once.
- High level of integrity, diplomacy and initiative.
- Clinical experience: 2 years’ clinical services experience providing care consultation or case management; dementia care experience preferred
- Experience in student supervision and volunteer management preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (especially Word ); ability to learn donor and service user software
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 22 2019
Active Until:
Oct 22 2019
Hiring Organization:
Alzheimer's Association
industry:
Nonprofit