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About the Role
The Shift Supervisor is responsible for ensuring that people supported have the support and resources necessary to live meaningful lives, aligning with their needs and aspirations. This role involves monitoring adherence to all plans for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and ensuring Direct Support Professionals have the necessary resources to follow scheduled activities. The Shift Supervisor also serves as a role model and helps develop best practices.
Responsibilities
- Ensures that a person-centered focus is used to provide care and support by all staff.
- Promotes the independence and self-determination of individuals, utilizing person-centered practices.
- Promotes participation in activities of meaningful daily living.
- Ensures a positive climate that promotes respect and dignity for people supported.
- Provides opportunities for people supported to personalize their environment, schedule and experiences.
- Supports the person’s independence, choice and outcomes.
- Provides prompt, efficient, and personalized support to meet requirements, requests, and concerns.
- Provide habilitation services to each client as prescribed in their service plans.
- Responsible for overall functioning of the facility during the absence of the Program Director.
- In the absence of the Program Director, supervises and instructs all Direct Support Professionals on shift.
- Responsible for people supported and agency funds and expenditures during shift.
- Ensures coverage of a shift when a Direct Support Professional is absent.
- Acts as a functioning member of the staff, meeting the needs of the people supported.
- Responsible for the physical condition of the program including agency vehicles.
- Participates in staff meetings, supervisors’ workshops, interdisciplinary team (IDT) and committee meetings.
- Channels approved information pertaining to staff and agency to Program Specialists.
- Provides supervisory counseling and discipline to Direct Support Professionals as necessary.
- Identifies facility needs and makes the relevant staff aware.
- Ensure optimal utilization of the resources available in order to achieve efficiencies.
- Carries out policies and procedures of SUS, in accordance with OPWDD and other funding sources.
- Reports all incidents, ensuring consistent adherence to OPWDD and agency policies.
- Assesses and monitors staff productivity on an ongoing basis.
- Responds appropriately to community, family and agency contacts.
- Maintains, develops and supports the person support to staff assignment.
- Meets with Program Director on a regular basis to discuss pertinent shift and Direct Support Professional’s issues and successes.
- Monitors Direct Support Professional’s time sheets on an as-needed basis.
- Ensure fire drill completion on shift.
Requirements
- HS Diploma or GED required
- One year’s experience providing direct services to developmentally disabled persons preferred
Skills
- Direct service professional
- counselor
- residential counselor
- direct care counselor
- habilitation specialist
- human services
- social services
- social worker
- case manager
- health services
- developmental disabilities
- mental health behavioral health
- OPWDD
- OMRDD
Location
- Queens, NY
Work Type
- In Person
Experience Level
- One year’s experience providing direct services to developmentally disabled persons preferred
Education Level
- HS Diploma or GED required
- Associates Degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- USD $23.00/Hr.
Benefits
- health and wellness resources
- generous PTO
- professional development
About the Company
- S:US IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
- Join a team of employees who care about the wellbeing of others.
- We believe in fostering a culture built on our core values: respect, integrity, support, maximizing individual potential and continuous quality improvement.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information and including all other statuses protected by Federal, State and Local laws.
- S:US is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities, including allowance of the use of services animals.
- To request reasonable accommodation or if you believe such a request was improperly handled or denied, contact the Leave Team at MyMedicalLeave@sus.org.