Wellness Coordinator

Hebrew SeniorLife employees set the highest standard in our commitment to redefine the experience of aging. With compassion, resilience, and determination, we make a difference in the lives of patients, residents, their families, and the broad senior care community every day. And they in ours as well. These life-changing connections give our work meaning and fuel our desire to advance our potential. To be all that we can be. At Hebrew SeniorLife, that’s uniquely possible. Because here we’re supported to always keep growing. And as we do, so does our collective impact.

Our benefits include:

• Excellent medical and dental benefits, available on your first day for positions over 24 hours/week
• A 403b retirement plan open to all employees, including per diems
• Generous paid time off
• On-site health and wellness programming
• Tuition reimbursement and scholarships
• An employee recognition program

HSL’s Right Care, Right Place, Right Time: Effectively Integrating Senior Care and Housing (R3) initiative provides wellness services to vulnerable seniors in affordable housing with a focus on improving outcomes for seniors and reducing health care costs. The overall goal is to prove the impact of the model in order to develop a long-term sustainable funding methodology for supportive housing with services.

The Wellness Coordinator (WC) serves a lead role in the R3 Initiative, coordinating activities with the Wellness Nurse, developing and strengthening partnerships with community provider organizations, engaging residents in wellness assessments and health education programs, connecting residents to needed services, providing a wide variety of case management tasks, ensuring that all interventions are documented and tracked and assisting the Program Director with administrative tasks of managing the initiative. The Wellness Coordinator is directly responsible for assuring that there is excellent communication and coordination with all partners, including emergency responders, payers and local providers to support residents in living independently and safely for as long as possible.

• Conduct wellness assessments of residents to determine needs and goals; develop wellness plans addressing physical, social, cognitive, spiritual and mental health domains.
• Coordinate with primary care physicians, mental health providers and hospitals.
• Partner with housing staff to tailor programming that meets resident needs.
• Partner with emergency responders to analyze call data to identify trends, reduce unnecessary calls, and transports, and facilitate communication/information flow.
• Educate housing staff members including office, maintenance, housekeeping, programming. and dietary staff to identify and communicate concerning changes in residents’ condition.
• Utilize technology to conduct safety checks on high risk seniors and to assist with medication and treatment adherence.

• Support on site services and connection to required off site services by following up with at risk residents to ensure adherence to health and wellness related activities.
• Partner with and make referrals to all appropriate local service providers, for example: Visiting Nurses Associations, ASAP’s, Rehabilitation Services, PACE Programs, Adult Day Health

• Work with the Wellness Nurse to plan, schedule and implement Evidenced Based Programs.

• Assist residents with transition to other levels of care as needed; conduct family meetings and attend off-site team meetings when necessary to coordinate care and discharge planning needs.
• Offer advocacy for residents and serve as a liaison for families.

• Bachelors degree with 3-5 years experience required. Must have compassion for and a desire to work with a senior population.
• Excellent organization and interpersonal skills. Must have ability to innovate, think strategically and conceptually, manage multiple projects simultaneously and handle difficult situations.
• Must be a professional, proactive, collaborative, conscientious, and results-oriented individual. Must have an optimistic and positive demeanor, excellent oral and written communication skills, good intuition and sound judgment. Must be motivated to learn and flexible to change.
• Computer literacy; experience with Windows, Word, Power Point, and Excel.

• Masters degree in a human service field and 1-2 years of experience working as a case manager or care coordinator in aging services strongly preferred
• Certification in Dementia Care preferred.