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House Manager (HM) Job Description

Overview

A House Manager is responsible for all activities aimed at providing home and community- based services to individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. The House Manager is preferably selected among highly performing DSP/CRMA workers noted with consistent management and leadership skills. In addition to the house management associated responsibilities, s/he performs DSP/CRMA-related tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum level of education high school.
• Strong management and leadership skills
• Compliance with specific protocols and rules
• Careful listening to instructions about residents’ needs.
• Integrity to ensure residents are safe and comfortable to cooperate with DSP in the provision of personal care such as bath, dressing, etc.
• Trustworthiness and dependability to ensure residents, families and other partners rely on their care and services.
• Interpersonal skills susceptible to facilitate the communication and residents’ disclosure of emotional needs, distress, or discomfort.
• Staff management and development
• Financial management skills
• Physical strength as enabler to perform tasks such as lifting, positioning, or moving residents.
• Flexible to work various shifts and different days of the week
• Professionalism to adhere to HIPAA privacy rules.
• Commitment to performance improvement to keep up with required and necessary trainings.
• Completion of DSP basic training

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• Completion of CRMA training
• Receptive to positive criticism and remarks
• Mastery of medication administration rules, the five rights pertaining to adequate medication administration: right medication, right dose, right time, right person, and right route

Responsibilities

• Supervising DSP/CRMA
• Weekly distributing and collecting time sheets
• Enforcing writing of progress notes policy
• Reviewing progress notes
• Ensuring progress notes are timely written and Identifying staff who missed to write progress notes and encouraging the staff to complete the missed notes.
• Assessing staff’s performance needs
• Determine strategies to improve staff performance.
• Daily schedule review and weekly DSP/CRMA scheduling
• Weekly supplying necessities to assigned residential home.
• Making the list of needed residential home materials & equipment.
• Keeping the inventory of material and equipment
• Managing finances allocated to residential homes necessities.
• Monthly activities reporting
• Annually activities reporting.
• Attending monthly leadership meetings
• Performing all activities assigned to DSP/CRMA as needed.

Reporting, supervision & collaboration

• House Manager teams up with DSP/CRMA for the well-being of residents
• House Manager collaborates with his/her colleague in various residential homes to share staff as needed.
• House Manager collaborates with Human Resources Manager

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Working Schedule

• Monday – Friday 8am-12am
• Be available at least one day on weekend.

Benefits

• Health and Dental Benefits
• Free charge training courses such as DSP, CPR, CPI, CRMA and further courses deemed important for the achievement of QCA’s vision and mission.
• Salary depending on experience, credentials, and devotion to the profession.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person