Care Manager (LSW) - Community Care Team, 40 hours/week, M-F

MaineGeneral Health•Augusta, ME

8d•Onsite

About The Position

MaineGeneral Health is seeking a compassionate and skilled Licensed Social Worker (LSW) to join our Community Care Team. In this role, you’ll partner with patients, families, healthcare providers, and community resources to improve the health and quality of life for those with the highest risk, highest cost, and highest utilization of health care services. Position: Care Manager (LSW) Location: Ballard Center, Augusta Schedule: Full-time (40 hours/week) Shift: Days, M-F The Role: As a Care Manager on the Community Care Team, you’ll work with individuals who face complex medical, behavioral, and social challenges. Many of these patients have frequent hospital or ER visits, and your mission will be to help them stabilize, stay healthier, and reduce avoidable utilization.

Requirements

Active LSW license in the State of Maine (required)
Excellent communication, teamwork, and advocacy skills
Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
Ability to build trust and form supportive relationships with patients from diverse backgrounds

Nice To Haves

Previous social work experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

Utilize various tools for identifying high-risk patients through EMR, referrals, and registries from health insurance payers
Conduct a comprehensive assessment of patients' physical, mental, and psychosocial needs
Develop care plans and utilize strategies to prevent disease exacerbation, improve outcomes, increase patient engagement in self-care in chronic disease management, and minimize hospital and ED utilization
Assist patients in navigating the health care system, particularly with care transitions.
Coordinate patient care

Benefits

Competitive Pay that reflects your skills and experience
Comprehensive Benefits – Health, dental, vision, and more.
Work-Life Balance – Generous parental leave, ample earned time off, and employee discounts.
Work hands-on in the community to create a real, lasting impact
Financial Security – Up to 4% retirement contributions and potential student loan reimbursement.
Career Growth – Opportunities to advance within our organization.
We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.
Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.
A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.
When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.
An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center.
Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.
We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.
Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.
We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.
Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business.
We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development.
We know that our employees are our most valuable resource – they’re how we grow our business and care for our community.