Day Habilitation Director

Day Habilitation Director At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.   Reasons you’ll love working with us:    If you have a particular age range or population, you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.   With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.    Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.   We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.   You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.    How you can make a bigger difference:    Purpose: The Director of the Mishkon Habilitation Program has overall, primary responsibility for the day-to-day provision of services and program operation. Then Mishkon Day Habilitation (Day Hab) program provides adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) with structured, meaningful activities that promote personal growth, social interactions, and community involvement. The program enhances the quality of life for participants by helping them develop essential skills, fostering independence, and encouraging active participation in their communities. The program maintains and provides individuals with an experience and standards in keeping with their Orthodox Jewish identity.   Position Overview: The Day Habilitation Director at Mishkon oversees the day-to-day operations of the Day Habilitation program. This includes developing and coordinating services, ensuring compliance with OPWDD regulations, and promoting person-centered planning and community integration. Using the Person-Centered Planning approach, the Habilitation Manager develops and coordinates activities for individuals both on and off site in order to provide an enriching daytime environment connected to each individual’s life plan goals. The Day Habilitation Manager hires, supervises and professionally grows Day Habilitation staff, known as Habilitation Support Professionals (HSP) and liaises with clients, advocates, and other service providers on an ongoing basis for continuity of support. They conduct outreach, maintain census, oversee scheduling, ensure timely and proper billing and documentation, and are responsible for other administrative duties. KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:   Program Development and Services Provision: Develop a meaningful curriculum for each client and group on a weekly basis to enhance current functioning and satisfaction as part of the wider community. Liaise with clients, advocates, and other service providers for continuity of support. Ensure that programming occurs, per regulatory standards, a majority of time in the community.   Compliance and Oversight: Ensure that programming occurs per regulatory standards, primarily in the community. Review and approve OPWDD daily and monthly summary documentation completed by the HSP for quality, accuracy, and consistency. Verify the accuracy of individualized service plans and protective oversight needs. Develop and write the Day Habilitation Plan and Checklist that details client goals and documents progress. Ensure timely reporting and follow up to incidents.   Staff Management: Hire and supervise Day Habilitation staff, known as Habilitation Support Professionals (HSP) Provide support to the HSP through training, instructing and mentoring. Facilitate regular, consistent communication with staff, facilitating team meetings. Coordinate training sessions for Day Habilitation staff, focusing on person-centered approaches and strategies. Evaluate each HSP competency in the service environment, identifying strengths and areas for professional development, and assisting with skills development and performance improvement.   Community Integration and Collaboration: Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to develop quality supports for each individual. Host program meetings to develop plans with the individual, their advocates, and the residential interdisciplinary team. Build relationships with local businesses, community organizations, and other service providers to created opportunities for clients.   Billing and Administration:   Submit billing to the Fiscal department on a timely basis. Maintain census. Ensure the facility is equipped to handle emergencies and crisis. Develop and implement emergency preparedness plan. Follows all requirements to maintain Mishkon Day Hab as an Orthodox program. Provide outreach in the community to expand the Day Habilitation program. Participate in and lead performance improvement projects. Other duties as assigned.   CORE COMPETENCIES:   Demonstrated success working with the I/DD population. Knowledge of Orthodox Jewish cultural, practices and heritage, or an interest in and commitment to becoming proficient in this area. Strong leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team. Strong management skills, with the ability to utilize data, implement standard work and systems, and continuously improve performance. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with residents, families, staff, colleagues and external stakeholders. Commitment to providing high-quality and safe care and services with a person-centered approach. Solution-focused and exhibits enthusiasm and creativity when presented with challenges.   EDUCATION / TRAINING REQUIRED:   Master’s degree in human services, social work or psychology.   EXPERIENCED REQUIRED:   At least 4 years working with individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. At least 2 years of supervisory experience.   COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:   Must be able to navigate Microsoft Office programs in addition to an Electronic Health Record and other computer programs as required.   VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:   The candidate must be able to review treatment plans and document daily logs. The candidate must be able to have the dexterity to pick up small items to work with clients on a variety of activities.   WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:   The position requires the ability to travel in the community with individuals, involving walking and navigating stairs, and movement to respond to crisis and emergencies, including helping individual evacuate. The position may entail lifting clients using a mechanical device, or lifting 50lbs, positioning of client, pushing client in wheelchair, and transferring client physically where prescribed. Regularly required to sit for part of the day.     If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:   Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and sick days Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans  Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness Free continuing education opportunities  403(b) retirement benefits and a pension Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation  27/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program   Life and disability insurance  Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee  Who we are:   The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.   More on Equal Opportunity:

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