HEALTH CARE TECHNICIAN IV - Residential Coordinator - Pueblo Regional Center

About the role

This position ensures all residential programming is implemented in the home. This includes providing supervision, modeling, and coaching to direct support professionals. This position spends the majority of the time in the home ensuring the milieu of the home is operating to efficiency. This position works closely with the Program Services Coordinator (PSC) to ensure the implementation of services is occurring within the correct guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Individual Care/Communication/Unit Maintenance/Safety
• Understands, promotes, and participates in the Home and Community Based Services Final Rule.
• Counsels individuals on behavior and medical care needs during group or one on one interactions per ID team direction.
• Collaborates with all investigations and other authorities as needed.
• Administers medications and treatments in accordance with physician order and Psychiatric Technician Act/Licensed Practical Nurse Practice Act.
• Can be pulled to cover any home/shift in the organization.
• Can be transferred to any home/shift in the organization to meet agency needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of behavioral and therapeutic approaches.
• Advises individuals regarding self-care and problem solving.
• Provides supports, services and tools which will assist the individual in the determination of personal goals, as well as foster the maximization of personal growth, independence and productivity.
• Completes and turns in paperwork to include incident reports, injury on the job reports, debriefing paperwork, progress notes etc.
• Utilizes communication devices/cell phones, computers, electronics, inter/intranet, etc. correctly and per policies outlined by the Pueblo Regional Center.
• Addresses all complaints and resolving individual grievances at the home level.
• When a resident is placed in an agency-approved physical hold, follows policy, competencies, and procedure.
• Maintains strong and respectful communication skills between co-workers, management, individuals, and outside agencies/stakeholders.
• Corrects deficiencies as needed in a timely manner.
• Maintains the home in perpetual readiness for surveys.
• Maintains current knowledge and complies with policy and procedure in these areas.
• Attends mandatory meetings, to include supervisory meetings and house meetings, monthly and quarterly reviews.
• Clinical Skill
• Implements and trains in the following areas: physically lift, transport and/or position residents by using approved lifting techniques.
• Employs agency-approved verbal and physical techniques in addressing a behaviorally challenging resident.
• Documents outcomes of treatments and program implementation timely and accurately.
• Monitors and reports progress, maintenance and regression according to IP and ISSP.
• Safely operate a motor vehicle when transporting individuals to locations.
• Affords assistance in personal shopping, ordering/purchasing supplies for the group home; follows Agency/State rules and policies and procedures; assures legal compliance with all purchases; and maintains agency mission.
• Participates in Interdisciplinary Team process, discussing individuals’ ISSPs (through goal and objective training, agency-approved verbal and physical techniques, direct contact and monitoring).
• Formulation of accurate information for assessments and formal reports for inclusion in the team process.
• Communicates to EOC, PSC, and RN regarding individual medical/behavior needs or changes.
• Ensures confidentiality of the medical record and information, conforming to HIPAA practices and procedures.
• Supervision
• Exercise supervision over the assigned home direct care staff (approx. 12), in the area of hiring, performance planning, performance evaluation and potential disciplinary actions.
• Works collaboratively with the scheduling department and implements regulatory compliance in conjunction with: DPA regulations; Personnel Rules; State Board of Nursing Practice Acts; HCBS-DD Waiver; Health Facilities and Emergency Medical Services Division (HFEMSD) of Department of Public Health (DPH); Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS); CDHS Policies and Procedures; and other state and federal mandates.
• Manages staffing patterns to ensure a balance of all agency staff to meet the needs of the residents, work units and agency as a whole.
• Directly monitors, trains and observes direct report staff in areas of residential, day program and therapy needs; documents accordingly.

Requirements

Employment history is calculated on a full-time basis (40/hrs per week). Part-time employment is calculated on a pro-rated basis to determine qualifications. Be sure your application specifically addresses your qualifications, experience, work products, and accomplishments as they relate to the position and minimum requirements.

• High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED)
• Three (3) years of experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position
• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis

Substitutions

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis

Special Qualifications

• Colorado LPT-DD, LPT-MI, LPN, or QMAP with check off completed by Designated Regional Center representative or earn QMAP within 3 months of hiring into this position.
• Licensure must be valid, current, and unrestricted and remain so throughout employment.