What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Coordinator position at Prime Home Developmental Disabilities Services?
General Summary: The Residential Coordinator works with Shared Living Providers, Alternate Care Providers, Agency Administrators, Team Members and Persons in services to ensure quality support to each person in making day-to-day choices that lead to greater independence and to participate in and contribute to community life. Under the Supervision of the Residential Director, is responsible for directly supervising assigned residential homes and the consumers residing in those homes. Activities related to these responsibilities include short-range planning, controlling, evaluating, communicating, documenting and day-to-day supervision of contractors and staff. They also ensure high-quality living environments, habilitation and support are provided to people receiving residential and vocations services through leadership, training, coaching, oversight, and quality assurance of work completed by the Residential Coordinator.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Support the current host home placements (extended family home- EFH) and family care givers.
- Provide monitoring and support to those in residential services to ensure extended family home providers deliver the highest quality services possible, while maintaining compliance with the Individual Service Program- ISP. Additionally, the Residential Coordinator trains and teaches the caregivers on programs, documentation and more.
- The person selected for this position will be working at the Grover Street location.
- Ensuring all clients are treated with respect and dignity, recognizing individual clients' needs, and encouraging independence.
- Performing walk through inspections of potential EFH placements and family caregivers.
- Performing and coordinating intake, consent and release packets.
- Ensuring timely entries into Therap.
- Conducting, completing, and submitting Letter of Agreement Home Studies.
- Ensuring timely Residential Census Spread Sheet entries.
- Conducting Therap training with new Extensive EFH contractors and Alternate Care Contractors.
- Completing monitoring activities and providing technical assistance to ensure the accurate and timely completion of required documentation
- When on call, provide timely responses for off-hours crisis management
Qualifications
Educational and Experience Requirements:
- Must have a high school diploma or GED. College coursework in business and the social sciences is preferred.
- Must have at least 2 years of experience working in a community based program for persons with developmental disabilities, with at least 1 year in management or supervision experience preferred.
- Must pass a background investigation which includes a criminal history and an APS/CPS check.
- Possess a valid Driver's License, good driving record and current Auto Insurance.
- Have a reliable vehicle to attend meetings and do home visits monthly.
- Ability to achieve and maintain training (will provide the training needed for the right candidate)
- Demonstrate strong leadership, organizational, analytical, and management skills.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
- Knowledge of and the ability to effectively assess and provide for consumer residential Client needs will include such things as amount and type of staffing required, transportation needs, Coordination of special interventions for medical, nutritional, or therapeutic needs.
- Knowledge of and ability to effectively coordinate residential Services through effective oral/written communications, allocation of needed resources, supervising, staff training methods, preparing/monitoring budgets, utilizing Sound decision-making processes, and formulating, implementing and monitoring staff goals and objectives.
- Knowledge of and ability to effectively utilize normalization principles, least restrictive alternative concepts, ISP’s, basic behavior management programming, and medications.
- Knowledge of and ability to comply with federal, state and local regulations.
- Ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate financial systems for residential settings and client accounts.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure the Shared Living Providers and alternate care providers are in compliance with the requirements of federal, state, and local regulations and contracts are met.
- Conduct on-site home visits monthly to evaluate service delivery, environments, and quality of life for people in services.
- Implement, modify, and report on programs for consumer skill acquisition according to agency policies and procedures.
- Attend to and monitor client needs as identified in the ISP’s.
- Assist with client financial needs which may include entering transactions, establishing and balancing accounts, ensuring bills are paid and budgeting income in lieu of expenses on a timely basis.
- Display professionalism which includes meeting timelines, maintaining an appropriate and professional manner in all areas related to the consumers and agency, submitting quality written work products.
- Attend staff meetings, trainings, and ensure all medical appointment documentation is completed, and uploaded to Therap, and saved in their individual files.
- Review and track all data and documentation in Therap (programs, medications administration) to ensure timely completion as set by the state guidelines to comply with the regulations.
- Assists in overseeing the training, support, and coaching of Shared Living Providers.
- Is available via cell phone to always assist and advise Shared Living Providers, except during planned absences. Shares any on-call responsibilities and availability as assigned by the Agency Director for emergencies and consultative support to staff.
- Assists with the development, writing, and implementation of the Individual Program Plan and Individuals Education Plan (as needed) to ensure that regulations are followed specific to the rights restrictions, least restrictive alternatives, approval by HLR, IPP approval and individual involvement.
- Participates in all required administrative and managerial weekly meetings, the intake process, IPP, IEP and other meetings as necessary.
- Maintains clean and open communication with all team members and providers.
Requirements:
Valid Driver’s License
Current vehicle Insurance upon request
CPR, 1st Aide, Med Aid preferred but will train if necessary
Must have at least 2 years of experience working in a community based program for persons with developmental disabilities, with at least 1 year in management or supervision experience preferred.
WHO WE ARE
Our agency has been providing services to people with disabilities for over 10 years. In addition to residential services, we also have four-day service locations that are open M-F.
•Our team enjoys the rewards of making a difference every day
•Work in a supportive environment
•Competitive wages
•Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits
•Company is growing quickly and there are opportunities for advancement
•Amazing, caring coworkers
•Focused on giving individuals with disabilities opportunities to participate in activities and have life-fulfilling experience
