Position Summary:
Responsibilities include: Oversight, training and teaching of direct care staff and individuals; Developing and monitoring habilitation plans; Human resources functions, such as disciplinary actions, scheduling, and interviews; Attending individual, team, and staff meetings; Advocacy activities; and, General administration and oversight of services provided to a individual. Duties also include acting as a liaison with state and federal regulatory agencies, Ensuring compliance with state and federal laws, quality assurance activities, and on-call time. Position requires a commitment to individual service, a team mentality, and attention to detail.
Reports To: Executive Director
Experience and Qualifications:
- At least 18 years of age
- High school diploma or GED equivalency and
- 3-5 years of experience in working with persons with developmental disabilities; or bachelor’s degree in a Human Services or related field, such as psychology, social work, or special education and
- 2 years experience working with persons with developmental disabilities.
- Clean criminal history and OIG record
- CPR certification
- Free from communicable diseases
Competency/Skill Requirements:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to meet physical demands of the position
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to accomplish tasks with minimum supervision
- Ability to provide effective supervision and leadership for direct care staff
- Knowledge of the MR/DD community, including resource identification
- Mature and responsible judgment needed to assist individuals in meeting their goals
- Ability to interact successfully with a variety of medical, social and psychological professionals
- Ability to use assistive equipment, including Hoyer lift and wheelchairs
Working Environment: Office and field.
Position Physical Requirements: Position requires the ability to walk, sit, stand; lift, push and pull up to 50 pounds unassisted and 350 pounds with assistance; squat, bend, reach and stretch.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes.
On a daily basis:
- Face to face contact with individuals;
- Communicating with employees, Arranging and attending meetings;
- Conducting assessments;
- Interviewing potential employees;
- Facilitating quarterly review meetings with all involved parties;
- Ensuring staff submit all necessary documentation within assigned time frame;
- Maintaining records at both office and individual’s home;
- Participates in goal setting and personal centered planning;
- Intervention planning;
- Resource identification;
- Monitoring, reviewing and writing reports;
- Advocating activities
- Problem solving;
- Providing outreach and public education;
- Interacting with a individual’s family, guardians, case managers, federal, state, and governmental agencies and other providers;
- Interviewing potential individuals (referrals);
- Coordinating staffing within your own sites to cover all shifts;
- Alternating with other program managers to be on-call for evenings and weekends;
- Required to carry a pager and answering pages from office staff or consumers in a timely manner.
Accountability:
- Assessing an individual’s talents, gifts, and needs using standardized tools and observation and facilitate conversation with the individual and/or other knowledgeable and interested persons;
- Developing, writing and monitoring habilitation plans based on the assessed and expressed needs of the individual;
- Training the individual, staff members, family and others to implement the habilitation plan;
- Providing training focused on assisting the recipient to acquire, retrain or improve skills that directly affect the ability to reside as independently as possible;
- Providing self-direction training for the individual including: identifying of and response to dangerous or threatening situation, making decisions and choices effecting that individuals life and initiating changes in living arrangements;
- Implement money management training consisting of training and/or assistance in handling personal finances, making purchases and meeting personal finance obligations, daily living skills coaching;
- Socialization training and/or assistance that allows for participation in community activities and establishing relationships;
- Documentation of services provided and other information pertinent to demonstrating movement towards individual goals and outcomes, and other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field is required to qualify as a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional (QMRP), and two (2) year’s experience working with persons with developmental disabilities;
- Without a degree in a related field, 3-5 year’s experience working with persons with developmental disabilities can be accepted for a QMRP designee position;
- At least eighteen (18) years of age;
- CPR certification;
- Adequate physical health;
- Free from Communicable disease(s);
- Must be able to lift 50lbs;
- An interest in and empathy for persons with developmental disabilities;
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills.