Posting number: OAAS/DPT/224628
Department: LDH-Office of Aging & Adult Services
Job classification: MEDICAL CERTIFICATION SPECIALIST 1
Posting type: Open
Categories: Administration, Health Services, Social Services
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This position may be filled in the following parishes: Rapides, Avoyelles, Vernon, Grant, La Salle, Catahoula, Concordia, Lafayette, St. Landry, Acadia, Evangeline, St. Martin, Vermillion, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Ascension, and Livingston
This position is part of the OAAS training team. Routine statewide travel is required in order to perform training duties and deliver presentations relative to all OAAS Long Term Care programs that serve the elderly and persons with adult-onset disabilities.
The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills in order to facilitate effective training in classroom and large audience settings; knowledge in adult learning principles; possess analytical thinking and problem solving skills; and be well organized. The position also requires ability to engage and develop a rapport with others, while also thinking in a disciplined and systematic fashion since a primary focus of the training team is the use and coding of a standardized assessment and care-planning tool used in multiple OAAS programs. The candidate must be/or become certified in the use of the assessment tool and in person-centered care planning principles.
The following attributes are preferable (but not required): experience using standardized functional/clinical assessment tools, knowledge of Medicaid Long Term Care Programs’ rules and regulations (including Nursing Facilities, Community Choices Waiver, Adult Day Health Care Waiver, Long-Term-Personal Care Services and the Program for the All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.).
Location: Office of Aging and Adult Services / Headquarters - AD PROGRAM OPERATIONS Statewide Parish
Appointment Type: This position may be filled as aProbationary appointment
Cost Center: 3201022002
Position Number(s): 159860
Career Progression: This position may be filled as a Medical Certification Specialist 1 or 2 determined by the qualifications of the candidate selected. This position provides the opportunity to advance within this job series.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
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Contact Information:
Debbie Parris-Thymes
LA Department of Health (LDH)
Division of Human Resources
PO Box 4818
Baton Rouge, LA 70821
225-342-6477
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