10/16/2025
Caramore is Hiring!
Position: Admissions Coordinator
Join our team and make a difference!
Job description:
2025/10/15 Admissions Coordinator Job Posting
Caramore is a nonprofit that has been operating in Carrboro and Chapel Hill for over 50 years. We are structured support program that supports adults with mental illness to establish stable employment and independence. We’re provide supportive, stimulating, and normalized real-world settings where individuals can master the skills to live the life they choose. We promote wellness, self-efficacy, and development of the skills needed to live and work in the community.
Caramore coordinates mental health treatment with local clinical providers and offers a transitional work and housing program where individuals attain successful employment, suitable housing, financial stability, and achieve independent living. Mental illness can entail cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal impairments that can hinder the ability to live the life one chooses. Our rehabilitative setting, including socialization and employment, works to amend those impairments and behaviors through concentration on daily living skills, medication management, food and nutrition, health and hygiene, and social interaction. Our 9-month program strives to support the individual to meet their own particular needs.
Work is an important component of our identity, and so it is with Caramore clients. Caramore clients begin training for a real job on the very first day that they enter the program. Incremental progress through the program develops disciplined and hardworking employees who feel good about themselves, are defined less by their illness and more by their vocation, and are imbued with confidence to pursue their goals.
Many Caramore participants also find Peer Support Services to be a valuable support in achieving varied goals and practicing self-advocacy. Provided by mentors with lived experience in recovery from mental illness or addiction, Peer Support offers several hours per week of direct, individual assistance with practical goals.
Caramore hopes that working to reduce misunderstanding and stigma attached to mental illness will improve the recovery process. Environment matters. Nobody wants to be sick, but people can get better and do get better. Caramore can be part of this process of recovery. Recovery includes making decisions to pursue goals that support wellness and stability and taking measurable action towards those goals. Inside the supportive structure of Caramore, risks can be taken; smaller mistakes and miscues absorbed, larger mistakes avoided, and a new life can start. Caramore is hope, action, and progress.
Essential Duties:
Admissions Coordinator responsibilities include:
· Conduct tours and interviews with applicants and interested parties,
· Perform assessments and consult with supervisor regarding applicant suitability,
· Process applications, records, and eligibility documentation,
· Collaborate with referral sources and with funding agencies to facilitate admissions,
· Compile and submit sufficient documentation to obtain funding authorization,
· Present applicants’ information to Treatment Team to make admissions decisions,
· Outreach with referral sources and recruit applicants for Caramore’s various programs,
· Facilitate applicants’ orientation during pre-admission trial visit and admission, and
· Maintain training in client rights, de-escalation, mental health first aid, confidentiality, infectious disease/blood borne pathogens, and Red Cross first aid.
Mental Health Professional Designation:
The minimum mental health professional designation for this position is Associate Professional.
Qualifications for the Position:
Educational requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services field
Experience working with SPMI population, preferred, not required
Must have a proprietary approach to work situations, be unflappable in crisis, hopeful in outlook, personable, and professional in demeanor.
Caramore provides equal pay for equal work and equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, s*x, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Caramore complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. 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.
employment type: full-time
non-profit organization
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
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