Program Director II (Brain Injuries)

Responsibilities

• Directs and manages the activities of program staff. Hires staff appropriate to the position. Utilizes staff appropriately with the goal of optimizing effort and achieving operational and financial goals.
• Manages staff performance. Provides direction, training, and coaching; implements recognition and rewards programs; conducts performance planning and review sessions; provides guidance on career development. Responsible for counseling and corrective action programs, as necessary.
• Ensures that the intake of prospective persons served is completed in a timely, professional manner; arranges and performs intake procedures, conducts initial assessment of persons’ served appropriateness for program.
• Provides supervision and direction to program staff regarding treatment/support plans and interventions, including rehabilitative strategies and techniques. Assists managers in completing comprehensive assessment for persons served. Participates in various internal and external meetings regarding treatment/support planning.
• Ensures research into housing and subsidy opportunities for referred individuals; provides assistance with all elements of the application process, as necessary. Follows through with all requirements and documentation as outlined.
• Provides outreach and create environments in which family, friends, and established relationships of the person served can be fostered.
• Provides problem resolution for staff and persons served.
• Fosters teamwork and leadership in work groups.
• Provides staff with new and updated policies and directives.
• Responsible for the quality and timely completion of all clinical, recordkeeping, and service/support/action plans and documents for persons served.
• Ensures compliance with all internal quality and external licensing, certification and accreditation standards and regulations, as well as program specific policies and procedures.
• Assists in the development of, and manages adherence to, program budgets.
• Ensures collection of program fees and service delivery data.
• Represents Vinfen in professional, trade, regulatory, and funding source organizations; participates in committees, meetings, and other activities, as requested.
• Serves as a resource for program staff, family and friends of persons served, neighbors, public officials, and other providers.
• Manages adverse events (such as medication occurrences, physical restraints, and other critical incidents); ensures plans and corrective actions are implemented and reported.
• Responds to internal and external data collection and reporting requests.
• Ensures program quality and achievement of goals and objective, as well as managing quality improvements.
• Provides on-call back up and on-site support and intervention, when necessary.
• Stores, administers, documents, and disposes of medication for persons served consistent with MAP requirements, funding source regulations, and Company policy. Ensures program compliance with Vinfen MAP protocols.
• Maintains and enhances staff’s knowledge of human services issues, trends, and techniques.
• Ensures maintenance and safety of physical sites.
• Performs other related duties, as required.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of human services relative to current assignment
• Knowledge of operations management procedures and practices
• Sensitivity to cultural, religious, racial, disability, and gender issues
• Knowledge and use of advocacy techniques
• Knowledge and use of different communication and learning styles
• Knowledge of organizational, strategic, participatory, collaborative skills
• Knowledge of human, legal, civil rights, community, and other resources
• Knowledge of available equipment, therapies and service providers
• Knowledge of empowerment and self-advocacy techniques
• Knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices
• Knowledge of participatory planning techniques
• Knowledge of crisis intervention techniques
• Knowledge of decision-making processes and ability to communicate same
• Ability to provide leadership and team management to staff
• Ability to balance many competing priorities
• Ability to make independent judgments and decisions
• Ability to work in a professional and confidential capacity
• Knowledge of personal computer applications and equipment
• Knowledge of financial management practices in human service organizations
• Knowledge of documentation requirements