Director of Elderly Care Services
Director of Elderly Care Services
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$ 75000 - 85000
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Job Description
Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA) is a communitybased 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Chicago lands diverse immigrant and refugee communities. Established in 1981 CMAA is a cornerstone of the Asia on Argyle corridor of the Uptown Neighborhood of Chicago with a satellite office in Elgin IL providing programs to serve our community across generations. We offer afterschool summer camp and mentoring programs for young people. For adults we provide case management and social services education including English as a Second Language (ESL) classes job preparation and placement services and immigration and citizenship case assistance. We connect older adults to inhome care support and community enrichment through our Golden Age Club. Finally we support entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Job Description
The successful candidate that CMAA is currently looking for is a Director of Elderly Care Services who will have the responsibility to oversee and manage programs that assist older adults and people with disabilities. Programs include InHome care services which help seniors and people with physical disabilities by placing nonmedical Home Care Aides (also known as homemakers) in their homes allowing them to meet the unique challenges that come with aging or living with a disability in a culturally sensitive way; Adult Day Services which is for older adults who cannot be home alone during the day due to a physical social and/or mental impairment and which also provides relief to family caregivers who are employed outside of the home; and Golden Age Club which provide enriching activities for seniors. In addition the successful candidate shall also oversee due diligence on other potential new department initiatives.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- InHome Care Services (Medicaid and private pay clients)
- Manage CMAAs InHome Care Services Department (Chicago including BHACC and Elgin) which serves 400 Medicaideligible and privatepay clients and employs 300 home care aides (aka homemaker/ caregiver) employees
- Conduct strategic outreach and marketing efforts for the InHome Care Services program in Cook DuPage Kane McHenry Will counties and other counties where our contract is applicable
- Manage InHome Care staff (e.g. coordinators supervisors schedulers assistant managers etc.); provide direction set goals and conduct performance evaluations
- Oversee contracts between the Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA) Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and managed care organizations
- Monitor InHome Services Department processes including but not limited to: account receivables and billing home care aide preservice and inservice training scheduling tracking and retrieving timely service compliance standards (i.e. home visits managing TTP portal) etc.
- Process renewals for IDOA service areas MCO contracts and other contracts as needed
- Process renewals for IDPH and other contracts as needed
- Adult Day Services
- Oversee planning and implementation of Adult Day Service activities for older adults in Chicago and Elgin
- Manage ADS staff including but not limited to Activities Coordinator Driver Nutritionist Nurse (LPN/RN)
- Golden Age Club
- Oversee planning of Golden Age Club activities for older adults in Chicago and Elgin
- Manage program staff (provide direction set goals and conduct performance evaluations
- Overall
- Prepare for program and funding audits
- Ensure highquality standards of service
- Ensure compliance and regulations are met or exceeded
- Manage and monitor the various budgets and process check requests within the department
- Provide regular analytical reports to the executive director
- Partner with development and grants management staff to seek diverse sources of funding as well as complete grant reports
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- BA or BS required. MA in Social Work MBA or related field preferred
- Demonstrated management experience in relevant fields including home care home health adult services
- Prior experience in preparing and managing department budgets
- Highly developed interpersonal skills. Ability to meet people with ease develop and maintain relationships
- Strong organizational skills able to work under pressure of many priorities and meet deadlines
- Knowledge of longrange planning process
- Desired linkage with immigrant communities
- Proficiency in a second language (ie Chinese Vietnamese Lao Thai Filipino Hindi Khmer Spanish) is a plus but not required
Work Environment
- This job operates in a clerical office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers and filing cabinets.
Physical Demands
- This is a largely sedentary role however some filing is required. This could require the ability to lift files open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.
- May be required to help set up and move tables and chairs for IHS activities/events.
Perks
- Health benefits
- Opportunities for growth and to give back to communities
- Fun highenergy culture
- Flexible hours based on individual schedule
- Relaxed dress code
- Access to an exceptional leadership team
Chinese Mutual Aid Association provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
