House Manager

Job Description

Job Description

MININUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Minimum 16 hours of yearly training 
• First Aid certified and CPR certified 
• Clean driving record/Clean Criminal Record Check
• Must be at least 18 years old
• Have a high school diploma or General Education Diploma
• Must be able to pass a Physical and free of all communicable diseases
• Must meet COMP Section 905 transportation requirements
• Sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics is required

COMPETENCIES (Skills, Abilities & Behavior)

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism
• Skills in healthcare and welfare of individual needs
• Skills in supervising and training direct care staff
• Skills in reviewing and updating ISP goals and Progress notes
• Skills in auditing documentation

 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (HOUSE MANAGER)

 

• Manager 1-3 Residential Group Home Sites.
• Manages direct care staff in group home(s) and ensure that delivery of services is congruent with Individual Service Plans and requirements of provider, licensing, and funding agencies.
• Provide direct care to individuals in services. Provide training or assistance in household care, such as meal preparation, clothes laundering, bed-making, housecleaning, shopping, and other similar tasks
• Be On-Call for emergency situations and issues from home staff two weeks each month. Evaluate issues and respond to appropriately. 
• Actively participate in ISP, SIS and other like participant centered meetings. 
• Completes residential and community activity schedules and ensures their implementation. 
• Ensure clinical documentation is accurate, complete and timely to compliance with agency and regulating bodies with daily audit.
• Provide program summaries as needed. 
• Conduct regular home inspections and participant record audits.
• Ensure that each residents nutritional needs are being met by preparing a weekly menu distribute food and supply items weekly and as needed to home. 
• Ensure identification of possible individual’s change in condition with swift and appropriate action.
• Ensuring all participants medical issues are addressed appropriately and appointments are attended, documented correctly and timely. 
• Transport and attend appointments as necessary and communicate effectively with and consult with medical professionals concerning participant treatment and care. 
• Manage staff in abiding by company policies and procedures as well as provider, state, federal, and funding agency guidelines. 
• Ensure Safety and Universal Precautions practices are followed by participants and staff as necessary to follow health and safety practices.
• Ensure that each program’s housekeeping, dietary, personal care and other needs are being met..
• Provide orientation training for new staff and on-going training and support of staff. 
• Ensure staff is working as a team.
• Ensure appropriate staff coverage at all times within budget and staffing guidelines, Manage OT requests. Reassign staff as required, with supervisor prior authorization. Substitutes for Direct Care Staff as needed.
• Provide regular participants and staff meetings.
• Ensure proper handling of petty cash, participant allowances, receipts and related documentation. 
• Participate in provider meetings and relevant conferences.
• Perform related duties as needed and assigned.
• Assisting with therapeutic exercises, supervising self-administration of medication and performing other medically related services;
• Implements the behavioral support plans of participants to reduce inappropriate and/or maladaptive behaviors and to acquire alternative adaptive skills and behaviors.
• Assists with the Quality Improvement Program.
• Plans for and adheres to the general health/safety practices necessary for the welfare of the person served.
• Attends and participates in in-service trainings.
• Transfers service recipients to and from wheelchair, bathroom facilities, vehicle and performs any other transfers, as required.
• Transports program participants as needed using personal auto(w/ millage reimbursement) or agency vehicle. 
• Performs any other duties deemed necessary by the supervisor and Director of LPC.

 

Typically Monday- Friday 11am-7pm. Flexible 8 hour shifts. On-call 1 week a month.