Care Manager Rehabilitation & Recovery

As a care manager, you combine the best of two worlds: you are close to the client and you maintain the overview. On the Rehabilitation & Recovery department, you work according to the principle 'caring with your hands behind your back'. Not literally, of course, but with one clear goal: helping clients to return home as independently as possible.

You are the linchpin in the client's recovery process. You coordinate care, monitor progress, and ensure that everything runs smoothly, always with the end goal in sight: returning home.

Together with the client, you work purposefully towards personal goals, supported by clear care pathways. In a trajectory averaging 3 to 10 weeks, you truly build a bond. You see clients making strides, sometimes even progressing further than before their admission. And that makes your work exceptionally valuable.

Specifically:

• You coordinate care in consultation with the client, family, and other healthcare professionals.
• You are an important point of contact and a connector within the team.
• You monitor the quality and progress of care on the department.

At Het Gasthuis, we offer short-term care within Rehabilitation & Recovery. On the department, clients stay with diverse care needs, such as elective orthopedics, trauma, oncology, COPD, heart failure, and NAH, with a specialization in CVA. The department is fully in development, with the goal of creating a strong therapeutic climate in which client and healthcare professional collaborate optimally towards recovery and return home.

Within Rehabilitation & Recovery Gorinchem, you work together with about 60 dedicated colleagues. Think of care providers IG, nurses, and care managers, but also occupational therapists, physiotherapists, doctors, and physician assistants. Everyone works from the same goal: supporting clients as well as possible in their recovery process.

Collaboration is incredibly important in this. We work consistently, actively involve clients in their development, and give each other feedback in an open and respectful manner. And at least as importantly: we also just have a very pleasant time together. We are there for one another and are extra happy with colleagues who are flexibly deployable when the department requires it.

• You see opportunities, even when things are difficult for a moment. Our clients have often been through a tough period and recovery does not always happen automatically. You are the one who guides them through this with patience, positivity, and a healthy dose of energy.
• You coach, motivate, and know exactly when to give someone that extra nudge. At the same time, you give clients the space to try it themselves. And if something doesn't work? Then you think in solutions.
• You have an affinity with neurorehabilitation. You have an eye for the specific challenges this entails and gain energy from guiding these clients in their recovery.
• You are a BIG-registered nurse.
• Ideally, you have experience in geriatric rehabilitation.
• You have completed the care manager training or wish to pursue it.
• You are vaccinated against Hepatitis B (or are willing to arrange this).

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