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About the Role

The Group Team Leader role focuses on supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental health challenges to achieve their goals and develop skills. This position involves working with the Day Support Program, developing staff, and ensuring daily activities, recreation, and community outings align with individual choices and desired outcomes. The role emphasizes maintaining a safe, supportive, and therapeutic environment that promotes growth, habilitation, meaningful activities, and the development of independent living skills.

Responsibilities

Ensuring daily activities, recreation, and community outings are based on individuals’ valued outcomes, choices, and desires.
Maintaining a safe, supportive, and therapeutic environment that fosters growth and habilitation.
Facilitating the development of independent and self-help skills for individuals.
Planning, supervising, and coordinating activities and recreation.
Maintaining and revising developed systems within the Day Program, including programmatic, quality assurance, training, and billing systems.
Leading recreational programming and meaningful activities, including participant and community relations and supervising volunteer activities.
Overseeing and coordinating the operations and services of assigned community recreation programs.
Assessing needs, planning, implementing, and evaluating program staff.
Keeping systems organized and efficient, and ensuring staff use systems appropriately.
Ensuring safety compliance for individuals and staff within the Day Support setting.
Monitoring activities to ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations and Agency policies.
Monitoring staff in planning and coordinating services to teach life skills, increase community participation, and improve socially appropriate behaviors.
Assisting individuals in maintaining health and safety skills.
Supporting Site Supervisors in implementing Direct Support Professional Core Competencies.
Covering duties of Direct Support Professionals during absences.
Attending Day Habilitation management and agency-wide management meetings.
Assisting individuals in obtaining services outlined in their Day Habilitation plan.
Completing reports and documenting incidents.
Coordinating with Program Coordinator to identify staff needs and training.
Training new hires and implementing Shadow Training procedures.
Coordinating the Day Habilitation program staffing based on regulatory ratios.
Performing planning, scheduling, and administration for new programs, clubs, groups, events, and community inclusion activities.
Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products.
Organizing and monitoring programming activity material.
Ensuring individuals receive appropriate meals and snacks according to their dietary needs.
Ensuring all Day Habilitation documentation is completed and updated.
Conducting Arrival and Departure Observations to ensure supervision and adherence to safeguards.
Coordinating and providing recreational program plans.
Leading, scheduling, and monitoring staff for recreational, events, and community plans.
Training and orienting staff on engaging with individuals to foster satisfaction and meaningful activities.
Directing and monitoring day-to-day recreation programs, classes, events, facility and equipment operations, safety, and compliance.
Ensuring activity equipment is present, secured, cleaned, and maintained.
Promoting and publicizing recreation programs.
Developing new programs and services.
Serving as a liaison for Day Programs to participants, families, community, and others.
Organizing, leading, and promoting interest in recreational activities.
Enforcing staff assignments to tasks, groups, and activities.
Collaborating with agency personnel, community organizations, and other professionals to plan recreational programs.
Providing monthly calendars of recreational, volunteer, and community events.
Ensuring recreational activities are generated by individual choice.
Developing new programs and activities by researching trends and evaluating community needs.
Observing and monitoring the quality of programs, events, and clubs.
Searching for and retaining volunteer sites for individuals.
Monitoring individuals and staff at assigned worksites.
Documenting individual worksite attendance daily.
Creating a safe, supportive environment for individuals to learn skills for independence.
Ensuring daily Habilitation Services are conducted and monitoring documentation completion.
Developing and implementing individual monthly schedules.
Performing all other duties assigned.

Requirements

Must have a passion for and desire to collaborate with people with intellectual disabilities and other physical or mental disabilities.
Knowledge of basic human physical and psychological needs.
Knowledge of simple health and safety precautions.
Knowledge of simple nursing care procedures, first-aid, behavior management, personal and environmental hygiene.
Ability to write progress and behavior reports using a professional, objective style and voice.
Ability to use computers and other electronic equipment.
Ability to interact with individuals, community members, and other treatment team members.
Ability to read and comprehend technical training manuals.
Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
Ability to learn basic operation and maintenance of adaptive equipment.
Ability to be supportive and patient.
Ability to be a team player.
Ability to observe, record, and report individuals’ behavior, attitude, and physical condition effectively.
Ability to prioritize conflicting deadlines.
Ability to observe, record, and report participant’s behavior, attitude, and physical conditions.
Ability to read, comprehend and follow individuals safeguard and program protocols.
Ability to obtain First Aid/CPR certification and Medication Administration Training.
Ability to cope with stress and adhere to deadlines and respect line management.
High School Diploma/GED with seven to ten years’ work experience in the OPWDD and serving the intellectually developmentally disabled population.
Associates Degree in the Human Service-related field (or equivalent credits), with four to six years’ work experience in the OPWDD and serving the intellectually developmentally disabled population.
SCIP, AMAP, and CPR/First Aid certifications preferred.
Familiarity with OPWDD regulations.

Skills

Behavior management
Personal and environmental hygiene
First-aid
Nursing care procedures
Health and safety precautions
Human physical and psychological needs
Computer and electronic equipment usage
Technical training manual comprehension
Adaptive equipment operation and maintenance
Observation, recording, and reporting
Prioritization
Stress management
Teamwork
Patience
Supportiveness
Communication (written and oral)
Program planning and evaluation
Staff training and development
Documentation
Creative thinking
Problem-solving
Community relations
Recreational programming
Volunteer coordination
Safety compliance
Dietary plan adherence
Medication Administration Training
First Aid/CPR certification

Location

Main Office - Springfield Gardens, NY

Work Type

Full Time
Day Shift

Experience Level

Experienced

Education Level

High School Diploma/GED
Associates Degree in Human Service-related field (or equivalent credits)

Salary/Compensations

$20.00 - $21.00 Hourly