About the Role
This position provides administrative oversight for a program, ensuring compliance with internal policies, regulatory bodies, and driving program quality improvement and new agency initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Ensures administrative oversight of the program, staff, and residents.
- Provides supervision and consultation while monitoring resident services.
- Implements and monitors performance-based standards for governing bodies.
- Facilitates utilization review, quality assurance, and program regulatory compliance.
- Oversees financial expenditures and income, including budget compliance, narrative writing, and annual budget submission.
- Reviews evaluations, admissions, treatment plans, resident charts, continuing stays, case conferences, and discharges for compliance.
- Writes and/or revises agency policies, procedures, and compliance manuals.
- Maintains positive relationships with government representatives, providers, and the community.
- Responsible for therapeutic, residential, and employee quality assurance.
- Develops and oversees educational activities, groups, and program activities.
- Ensures use of universal precautions to limit infectious disease transmission.
- Ensures direct case management of residents as needed.
- Ensures an active Resident Government process with weekly involvement in house meetings.
- Provides regularly scheduled supervision to program staff, including documentation and timely annual performance evaluations.
- Ensures proper role assignments and shift scheduling of staff based on qualifications and agency requirements.
- Conducts the hiring process for new program staff in consultation with HR and supervisors.
- Maintains personnel files according to policy and procedure, protecting record confidentiality.
- Provides new hire and ongoing training for employees, assessing further training needs.
- Maintains on-call status for consultation and emergencies.
- Conducts in-service training for the agency as assigned.
- Attends and participates in agency special events.
- Assists in the implementation of the agency’s strategic plan.
- Serves on or chairs agency Committees as requested.
- Integrates Trauma-Informed Care principles in all duties and interactions.
- Maintains and models appropriate ethical interactions and boundaries.
- Monitors program staff compliance with all relevant rules and regulations.
- Regular attendance at work location.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in social sciences or human relations field and an Advanced or Masters level CASAC or other qualified health professional status.
- Five years’ full-time paid work experience in chemical dependency treatment, two years of which must be in a supervisory role.
- Other appropriate human services or mental health work experience may be applied to the experience requirement.
- Bachelors’ degree in social sciences or human relations field and an Advanced level CASAC or other qualified health professional status.
- Five years’ full-time paid work experience in chemical dependency treatment, two years of which must be in a supervisory role.
- Other human service or mental health work experience may be applied to the experience requirement.
- Must possess a New York State driver’s license with an acceptable Motor Vehicle Record & reliable automobile.
Skills
- Chemical dependency treatment
- Supervisory experience
- Human services
- Mental health
- Therapeutic quality assurance
- Residential quality assurance
- Employee quality assurance
- Educational activities development
- Group facilitation
- Recreational activity oversight
- Social activity oversight
- Program activity oversight
- Universal precautions
- Direct case management
- Resident Government process facilitation
- Staff supervision
- Performance evaluation
- Role assignment
- Shift scheduling
- Hiring process management
- Personnel file maintenance
- Confidentiality protection
- New hire training
- Ongoing training
- Training needs assessment
- On-call consultation
- Emergency response
- In-service training
- Strategic plan implementation
- Committee participation
- Trauma-Informed Care integration
- Ethical interaction
- Boundary maintenance
- Compliance monitoring
- Federal Confidentiality (42 CFR, Part 2)
- HIPAA
- Medicaid
- HUD
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5 years of experience in chemical dependency treatment
- 2 years of supervisory experience
Education Level
- Master's degree in social sciences or human relations field
- Advanced or Masters level CASAC or other qualified health professional status
- Bachelor's degree in social sciences or human relations field
- Advanced level CASAC or other qualified health professional status
Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
