Adult Day Care Director creates and directs programs that address the health, psychosocial, and educational needs of older individuals and their caregivers and that provide clients a safe, secure, and positive daily experience. Responsible for recruiting, training, and retention of qualified staff. Being an Adult Day Care Director manages the financial operations for the center including billing, reimbursements, and budgets. Performs assessments of prospective clients to determine if programs will meet their needs. Additionally, Adult Day Care Director coordinates with caregivers, families, social services agencies, and medical professionals to plan clients program of care. Monitors programs to ensure effectiveness, quality care, compliance with applicable regulations and standards, and to identify areas for improvement or expanded program offerings. May be a RN with experience in gerontology. Requires a bachelor's degree of social science or a directly related field. Typically reports to top management. The Adult Day Care Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. To be an Adult Day Care Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
Independent Adult Day Care Centers
Position: Executive Director
Reports to: Regional Executive Director/Vice President/President
Summary:
The Executive Director oversees all aspects of Center Operations, including management and oversite of Guest and Staff scheduling, performing an assessment and completing the documentation, Guest/at-home caregiver communication, performing tours and other marketing duties, learning the food program to perform oversight and management of all kitchen operations, running the transportation program, overseeing the lifestyle enrichment program, ensuring all documentation is present and accurate for billing purposes, regulatory compliance, and staff development. The ED position is a demanding leadership role. A successful candidate will be willing and able to perform the duties of any position in the Center (excluding those requiring medical licensure) and work tirelessly to support the Center staff in delivering the best possible care to our Guests.
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ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects/people with or without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must be able to use general office equipment such as computers, photocopiers, telephones, etc. Housekeeping duties such as cleaning, cooking, snow shoveling, etc. The employee may be required to drive IADCC vehicles, operate wheelchair lifts and employ safety restraints. The employee may be exposed to outside weather conditions.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The employee must possess the ability to process vague, abstract verbal and written instructions; work under stress, interruptions and tight deadlines; to problem solve, answer questions and evaluate results of performance; to visualize and assess abstract ideas; communicate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and intellectual abilities as well as to calmly and repetitively model appropriate behavior in difficult or challenging situations.