Care Manager
Responsibilities
• Conduct initial and ongoing assessments of the AFC qualified setting
• Obtaining a social history and conduct a psychosocial assessment and evaluation
• Select, train, evaluate, and supervise AFC caregivers in conjunction with the Registered
Nurse
• Participate in the development, implementation, and ongoing review of the AFC plan of
care
• Conduct on-site visits with each member at the qualified setting bimonthly (alternating
the bimonthly visit with the Registered Nurse) for Level I, and monthly for Level II4
• Complete a care-management progress note corresponding with each on-site visit or
encounter and/or upon significant change
• Periodically review AFC caregiver logs
• Assist with obtaining information and accessing other health-care and community
services
• Review and document the fire and safety procedures for the qualified setting
• Participate in discharge planning and implementation
• Review, on at least an annual basis, the suitability of the qualified setting
Work Experience Requirements
Min. 2 Years of experience in direct care work with the elderly and disabled
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree and a social worker license from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in
Social Work OR a Bachelor’s Degree and two years’ clinical experience in the care of elderly or
disabled persons.
Caregiver
Responsibilities
- • Supervision and assistance with ADLs, IADLs, and any other personal care of a member
- that is necessary for the member’s health and well-being
- • Monitor and report any non-urgent or nonemergency changes in the member’s medical
- condition to the member’s AFC provider. In cases of emergency, report directly to the
- most appropriate provider and follow up with the AFC provider
- • Ensure maintenance of the qualified setting consistent with the requirements
- • Complete a caregiver log
- • Send the completed caregiver log at the end of each month to the program’s registered
- nurse where it is maintained as part of the member’s file
- • Promptly arrange for medical care when needed
- • Provide ongoing supervision of health-related activities, such as:
- 1. Issuing reminders to the member about prescribed medications
- 2. Timely refilling of the member’s prescriptions
- 3. Assisting with or arranging for member transportation to medical and other
- appointments
- 4. Assisting the member to comply with health-care instructions from health-careproviders 5Requirements
- You must be a responsible person who is at least 18 years of age, with the ability to make mature
- and accurate judgments and with no mental, physical, or other impairments that would interfere
- with the adequate performance of the duties and responsibilities of an AFC caregiver.
- No abuse alcohol or drugs.
- Capable of devoting the appropriate time necessary to provide needed personal care to the
- member in order to ensure the member’s safety and well-being at all times.
- Able to pass the Criminal Offender Records Information (CORI) check.
- Have satisfactorily completed a physical examination and received a tuberculosis screening
- within the prior 12 months.
- Met all other requirements established by the AFC provider for an AFC caregiver.
Registered Nurse
- Completing a nursing assessment
- Coordinating all other applicable clinical assessments
- Developing the member’s AFC plan of care
- Conducting on-site visits with each member at the qualified setting
- For Level I, bimonthly (alternating with the bimonthly visit by the care manager)
- For Level II, monthly, or more often as the member’s condition warrants
- Completing a nursing progress note for each on-site visit or encounter and upon significant change
- Monitoring each member’s health status and documenting those findings in the member’s medical record for each on-site visit or encounter, or more often as the member’s condition warrants
- Educating the member about hygiene and health concerns
- Reporting changes in the member’s condition to the member’s physician
- Coordinating the implementation of physician's orders with the member, AFC caregiver, and AFC provider personnel
- Evaluating, supporting, and training the AFC caregiver.
- Work Experience Requirement
- The registered nurse must be fully licensed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing.
- Min. 2 Years experience direct care working with the elderly and disabled.
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