Brookdale Senior Living

Home Care Scheduler & Caregiver

Posted on: 9 Apr 2021

Chicago, IL

Job Description

Overview

Now hiring a Full-Time Scheduler for Brookdale at Home Lake View. This opportunity will allow you to also provide non-medical services to residents. On-call, weekend and holiday rotation required.

Caregiving and home care experience preferred.

Make Lives Better Including Your Own.

The happiness of those we serve is dependent on the happiness of our associates, so you'll receive competitive compensation and a benefits package with additional perks designed to make you smile. The work you do will be challenging yet rewarding. But you'll earn more than a paycheck; you can enjoy opportunities to grow your career, as well as ongoing programs catered to your health, financial, mental, and emotional needs. Most of all, we believe you can find purpose, meaning, and the chance to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

Veterans, transitioning active duty military personnel, and military spouses are encouraged to apply.

We believe that in order to best serve our residents and patients, we need to first serve our associates. One way we do that is through our benefits. Our offerings include, but are not limited to:

Full-time and part-time associate benefits:

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Benefit plan package

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

Associate Compassion Fund

Associate Discounts

Identity theft protection

Pet savings and insurance plans

Voluntary benefits available

Full-time associate benefits:

Extensive Insurance Plans, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, health savings account and more.

Paid Time Off

Adoption Benefit

Tuition Reimbursement

Company-provided life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D)

Voluntary STD and LTD

Responsibilities

Ensures community is adequately staffed in order to meet residentu2019s care and service needs and in accordance with the company standards and guidelines.

* Supervises direct care staff as delegated by manager/supervisor.
* Ensures associate schedules are communicated/distributed to all associates a minimum of one week in advance (or longer as required by your individual agency).
* Effectively manages and communicates all changes in resident/client needs to associates as updates are made to the contract and plan of care.
* Manages on-call/after-hours business needs as assigned.
* Effectively communicates all staffing shortages and additional staffing needs to supervisor.
* Effectively operates and maintains corporate scheduling and billing computer system according to company guidelines and best practices.
* Completes daily billing in a timely manner, ensuring state and SOX compliance regulations are followed in regards to billing practices
* Responsible for completing review and reconciliation of billing on a weekly basis.
* Ensures billing information is complete and correct prior to finalizing monthly resident billing.
* Maintains positive relationships and rapport with co-workers, residents, family members and community personnel.
* Effectively maintains client chart/documentation and filing practices as per company guidelines and best practices.
* Completes other duties as assigned.

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Qualifications

Education and Experience
High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) required. Prefer one year experience working with older adults or in a related healthcare setting.

Certifications, Licenses, and Other Special Requirements
None

Management/Decision Making
Uses limited independent judgment to make decisions based on precedents and established guidelines. Solves problems using standard procedures and precedents. Knows when to refer issues to supervisor and when to handle them personally.

Knowledge and Skills
Has a working knowledge of a skill or discipline that requires basic analytic ability. Has an overall understanding of the work environment and process. Has working knowledge of the organization. Must have knowledge and working capability of PCs, including Microsoft Word and Excel.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

* Standing
* Requires interaction with co-workers, residents or vendors
* Walking
* Sitting
* Occasional weekend, evening or night work if needed to ensure shift coverage.
* Use hands and fingers to handle or feel
* On-Call on an as needed basis
* Reach with hands and arms
* Possible exposure to communicable diseases and infections
* Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
* Talk or hear
* Exposure to latex
* Ability to lift: Up to 25 pounds
* Possible exposure to blood-borne pathogens
* Possible exposure to various drugs, chemical, infectious, or biological hazards
* Vision

Brookdale is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.

Brookdale Senior Living

Brentwood, TN

We are all aging; some of us never stop living. So when the time comes to determine how you or your loved one will spend their later years in life, you'll have questions… Will I be heard? Will I be forgotten? How can I stay active? Will I be able to still grow as a person? Will my children still look up to me? Or down at me? How can I just be her daughter again? How can I continue to contribute to something meaningful? What do I do now? What do we do next? What do I do…to keep on living my life? Brookdale's senior living solutions will help answer those questions for those who may be in need of an assisted living facility or some other level of senior living care.

That's why the people of Brookdale offer new answers to the age-old question of aging. Framing everything we do inside your vision for all the places you'd still like your life to go. As an individual. A couple. A family. Being a trusted partner in bringing all those places you seek in life- to life. By listening to your needs. Understanding the life you want for yourself or your loved one. Then customizing a solution that puts life, close within reach.

At Brookdale, you can expect us to be a trusted partner by listening and understanding your needs, discussing potential solutions and options, mutually determining the right thing to do and working with you to take action together. Then we customize a solution that puts the life you want within reach. It is our job to provide solutions for the unmet needs of those who seek senior living solutions. We do this with 809 retirement communities serving around 77,000 residents (as of June 30, 2019), and with a wide range of innovative programs and services. We also offer a range of home health, hospice and outpatient therapy services to over 20,000 patients as of that date. Brookdale associates' passion, courage and true sense of partnership make Brookdale what it is. More than a company, it is a calling.