Recovery Learning Center Program Director

About the role

Vinfen is a nonprofit organization providing community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. This position is part of Vinfen's Recovery Learning Community (RLC) program.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operation of RLC setting(s) including scheduling and programming, planning new initiatives and conducting peer support and educational groups.
• Help prepare participants to engage in a recovery process and to communicate their strengths, hopes, dreams and goals, effectively.
• Help participants access resources in their local community to support/enhance their recovery, including educational, employment, housing, and social supports.
• Create a welcoming and helpful RLC environment in which participants, family, friends, and others important in the lives of participants are welcome, respected, and valued.
• Direct and manage the activities and job performance of RLC staff and volunteers.
• Hire staff appropriate to position responsibilities.
• Optimize program staff and volunteers’ efforts to achieve operational excellence.
• Use and train staff and volunteers to use strengths-based, recovery-oriented, motivational enhancement, harm-reduction, trauma-informed, culturally competent rehabilitation approaches to help participants think through their current life circumstances compared with their hopes and plans for the future.
• Provide support and mentoring to staff and volunteers to promote team cohesiveness.
• Manage staff performance.
• Provide direction, training, and coaching for all programs and, if applicable, volunteers.
• Implement supervision, recognition and rewards programs and conduct performance review sessions and corrective action as needed for all program staff.
• Provide guidance on career development to all program staff.
• Provide consistent and direct performance feedback to volunteers if applicable.
• Arrange needed staff training.
• Maintain staff schedule.
• Manage staff time off to maintain operational excellence.
• Teach and consult with staff to develop and deliver helpful service interventions and programming.
• Conduct staff meetings and supervision at RLC site(s).
• Orient new program staff.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of a psychiatric condition required.
• A minimum of two years’ experience in progressively responsible human services positions required.
• One or more years of supervisory experience preferred.
• A high school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• In some cases, experience may be substituted for academic training.
• Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) credential required within 16 months of hire.
• Bi-lingual/bi-cultural applicants are encouraged to apply.

Pay

USD $50,050.00 - USD $50,050.00 /Yr.