What are the responsibilities and job description for the SENIOR PROGRAM DIRECTOR, CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES, IFFS position at Waystone Health & Human Services?
Job Details
Description
Come join a vibrant community at Waystone, where our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging flourishes. We believe that by engaging our employees and embracing our core values of Trust, Growth, Respect, Integrity, and Belonging, we can create an environment where everyone feels empowered and welcomed.
LOCATION: Heritage Place, Lawrence, MA
SCHEDULE: Full-time Monday - Friday, flexible to cover two evenings/week, as required, and occasional Saturday hours.
The CFS Senior Program Director IFFS, (Intensive Flexible Family Support-Behavioral) provides oversight to maintain meaningful relationships with family and staff as part of the greater team to prevent additional crisis and potential residential placement for clients.
Essential Functions:
Clinical/Programmatic:
- Collaborate with VP of Children & Family Services in review and assignment of all referrals for the Children’s Home and Community Intensive Family Support Program.
- Monitor the development and implementation of IFSP’s for families in the program.
- Assist VP of Children & Family Services in program development and expansion.
- Oversee assignment of program resources to best meet the needs of families served.
- Responsibility for hiring program staff and promoting training and professional growth of staff.
- Monitoring and composing Charting the Life Course.
- Supervise IFFS Case Managers in program.
- Monitor the electronic database records on all families being served.
- Assist in coordination of the internal evaluation of all Children & Family Services programs.
- Assist with carrying caseload for families served.
- Work with other agencies and departments to ensure cohesiveness in services.
- Provide direct support to families in the program that require high level of behavioral support.
- Provide training and direct support to the IFFS Intensive Behavioral Case Managers on development, implement, and support parent training models and other behavioral interventions.
Administrative:
- Assist in program budget development and monitoring.
- Assist in development of DDS proposals including RFRs, budgets, amendments, and associated funding.
- Assist and monitor compliance of Children & Family Services Program with agency policies/procedures and with applicable regulations of contracting agencies.
- Ensure all required documentation is submitted on a monthly basis to supervisor and/or DDS.
- Flexibility in scheduling and traveling as needed to serve clients/support staff.
- Perform other duties as agreed upon with the VP of Children & Family Services.
- Engage in community activities and supports (both for individual clients and/or dept./agency as a whole.
- Collaborate with Vice President of Children and Family Services in oversight of Consults to programming.
- Responsible for completion of all state and area DDS reports and documentation including Mid-year reviews, year-end reports and prior approvals.
- Liaison to the Fiscal Department and Human Resources Department of the agency.
- Execute contracts within the budget.
- Ensure budgets are monitored and invoices submitted in a timely manner.
- Compete monthly billing for area contracts.
- Provide consistent and timely supervision to all staff.
- Availability to assist and/or supervise staff and families served on evenings and weekends as needed.
- Completion of administrative paperwork as assigned.
- Approval of payroll and mileage submitted by staff.
Other Responsibilities:
- Attend staff meetings.
- Chair Children & Family Services team meetings as needed.
- Perform other duties as agreed upon with the VP of Children & Family Services.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Five years’ experience in Human Services, at least two of which shall have been in the field of developmental disabilities and shall include supervisory and administrative experience.
- Knowledge of home community-based services, which support children and adults with disabilities and their families.
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree preferred, in Education, Social Work, Human Services, or other related fields.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and ability to use electronic database records
- Valid driver’s license in good standing with minimum of 1 year driving experience.
- Regular and predictable attendance
At Waystone, we firmly believe that by investing even more in the professional development of our employees, being an inclusive community and passionate about the services we offer, we will attract more skilled people who embody our mission. The future of Waystone is extremely bright thanks to our incredible employees, community partners and other supporters.
Generous Benefits - most start on the date of hire with regular schedules of 25 hours per week!
- Health insurance; Harvard Pilgrim network, 3 levels of coverage
- Dental insurance, Vision insurance, and tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401K Retirement Plan with generous employer match
- Start building Vacation time right away, accruing at 2 weeks/year
- 12 Paid Holidays, 3 Personal Days, 9 Sick days/year
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Free access to our on-demand training library with opportunity to earn CEU’s
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For more than 50 years, Waystone has been partnering with people who are diverse in age, ability, and cultural background throughout their personal, work, and life journeys. We serve people across the lifespan, starting at the age of three and through the end of life. While we are known for serving people with disabilities, we support a growing number of people with brain injuries, medical and behavioral challenges, dementia, and veterans with service-related disabilities.
Serving over 1,700 individuals and their families, we continue to expand our programs and innovate new services to support the diverse life journeys of those we serve. We have expanded our involvement in the local communities we serve and collaborated with others to address dementia, food insecurity, staffing shortages, leadership development, disability advocacy and building communities that promote equity and belonging.
