About the Role
This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of residents in a caring and supportive environment. If you have a passion for providing quality care and leading a dedicated team, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and oversight to program, ensuring compliance with regulatory and agency policies and procedures.
- Conduct weekly site visits.
- Participate in Life Plan meetings.
- Develop Staff Action Plans (SAPs) for implementation.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with individuals supported.
- Ensure comprehensive, accurate, and timely billing in accordance with agency guidelines and OPWDD regulations.
- Ensure completion of daily billing, monthly progress reports, and attendance.
- Maintain individual’s books in accordance with regulations and agency requirements.
- Develop weekly and monthly calendars of activities and events.
- Provide supervision to Day Habilitation Specialists.
- Complete annual evaluations.
- Ensure staff compliance with training and certifications, including SCIP-R, CPR, First Aid, AMAP (as needed) and LMS training.
- Maintain relationships and communication with families and residences.
- Monitor the finances of the programs within regulatory and agency policies and procedures in collaboration with the Assistant Director.
- Collaborate with program management and Human Resources to manage the candidate selection workflow process.
- Interview and hire staff in collaboration with program leadership.
- Ensure completion of evaluations within agency guidelines.
- Collaborate in identifying potential candidates for admission, screening, and placement of individuals.
- Participate in workgroups and committees within the agency as well as within the wider provider networks.
- Work collaboratively with other Day Habilitation partners.
- Ensure maintenance of up-to-date confidential resident files, personnel files, and regulatory documentation.
- Ensure maintenance of physical plant in collaboration with the Building Manager.
- Ensure reporting of all incidents, utilizing the chain of command.
- Ensure notification to oversight agencies as per policy and procedure.
- Monitor payroll.
- Ensure staff compliance with attendance requirements.
- Maintain certification in SCIP-R, CPR, First Aid, AMAP.
- Participate in development of the Electronic Health Record (Evolv).
- Perform all other duties as assigned by the Assistant Director and/or Vice President.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Strong management, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in programs serving individuals with developmental disabilities
- Computer literate
- Has a valid NYS Driver’s License
- Interact with city and state agencies and other providers in a variety of forums.
- Maintain relationships with families and correspondents.
- Provide supervision and mentoring in a positive and supportive manner.
- Is a team player.
- Has a strong sensitivity to cultural differences present among staff and individuals within the organization.
- Possesses a strong belief in people’s ability to grow and change.
- Forges a mutually respectful partnership with persons served and their families.
- Is able to set limits and maintain a helping role of practitioner.
- Is able to intervene appropriately.
Skills
- Management
- Organization
- Interpersonal skills
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Computer literacy
- SCIP-R
- CPR
- First Aid
- AMAP
- LMS training
- Electronic Health Record (Evolv)
Work Type
- flexible schedule
Experience Level
- Minimum of 1 year of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
