Program Director - Residential Single Site

About the role

Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization providing community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. The position oversees clinical, financial, and administrative operations of specified programs while ensuring adherence to standards and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Direct and manage the activities of program staff.
• Hire staff appropriate to the position.
• Utilize staff appropriately with the goal of optimizing effort and achieving operational and financial goals.
• Manage staff performance.
• Provide direction, training, and coaching; implement recognition and rewards programs; conduct performance planning and review sessions; provide guidance on career development.
• Responsible for counseling and corrective action programs, as necessary.
• Ensure that the intake of prospective persons served is completed in a timely, professional manner; arrange and perform intake procedures, conduct initial assessment of persons' served appropriateness for program.
• Provide supervision and direction to program staff regarding treatment/support plans and interventions, including rehabilitative strategies and techniques.
• Aid Managers in completing comprehensive assessment for persons served.
• Participate in various internal and external meetings regarding treatment/support planning.
• Provide outreach and create environments in which family, friends, and established relationships of the person served can be fostered.
• Provide problem resolution for staff and persons served.
• Foster teamwork and leadership in work groups.
• Provide staff with new and updated policies and directives.
• Responsible for the quality and timely completion of all clinical, recordkeeping, and service/support/action plans and documents for persons served.
• Ensure compliance with all internal quality and external licensing, certification and accreditation standards and regulations, as well as program specific policies and procedures.
• Aid in the development of, and manage adherence to, program budgets.
• Ensure collection of program fees and service delivery data.
• Represent Vinfen in professional, trade, regulatory, and funding source organizations; participate in committees, meetings, and other activities, as requested.
• Serve as a resource for program staff, family and friends of persons served, neighbors, public officials, and other providers.
• Manage adverse events (such as medication occurrences, physical restraints, and other critical incidents); ensure plans and corrective actions are implemented and reported.
• Respond to internal and external data collection and reporting requests.
• Ensure program quality and achievement of goals and objectives, as well as managing quality improvements.
• Provide on-call backup and on-site support and intervention when necessary.
• Store, administer, document, and dispose of medication for persons served consistent with MAC requirements, funding source regulations, and Company policy.
• Maintain and enhance staff’s knowledge of human services issues, trends, and techniques.
• Ensure maintenance and safety of physical sites.
• Perform other related duties, as required.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent is required; Master’s degree in Human Services, Psychology, or related preferred.
• Experience may be substituted for academic training in some cases.
• Driving is a requirement for this position using either a Vinfen van or personal vehicle.
• Must be at least 21 years of age, have maintained a valid US driver's license for at least six months, and must be able to pass a driver's screening background check.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, climb as this is a very physically active position.
• Must be able to lift at least 25 pounds using proper lifting techniques or the use of a two-person lift.
• Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment such as a calculator, copier, and printer.
• Ability to sit, reach, climb stairs, and maneuver through narrow spaces or hallways.
• Ability to assist clients with tasks of daily living.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time as needed.
• Ability to bend, reach, file, sit, stand, and move around the facility.
• Ability to speak, hear, and communicate with clients, staff, and external representatives.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Pay

The pay range for this position is USD $59,535.00 - USD $59,535.00 /Yr.