Floating House Manager - Residential Treatment Center

Job Description

Job Description

Assume the leadership role in the overall management of the living unit. Responsible for mentoring, coaching, and supporting direct care staff to ensure the treatment plans of individuals in the home are implemented appropriately. Supervise, mentor, and assist in the delivery of the program to assist individuals in requiring the skill and self-esteem needed to establish and achieve personal goals.

Primary Duties and Essential Functions:

• Supervision, mentoring, coaching, and evaluation of direct care staff to ensure treatment goals for individuals are met.
• Assist hiring process including interviewing and selection of staff, training of staff, planning, assigning and directing work.
• Reviews and approves time cards.
• Ensures staff have met all training requirements for their position and ensures physicals are in compliance.
• Ensures all direct care staff understand and is able to implement the Treatment Plans and Behavior Support Plan for all individuals in their living unit.
• Responsible for actively engaging staff and individuals in effective treatment activities and offering a variety of age-appropriate recreational and social experiences for individuals.
• Acts as primary liaison for family, clinician, and treatment team issues.
• Ensures the safety of the individuals and facility, including completion of monthly environment checklist, monthly fire drills, inspection and stocking of spill kits and any other health and safety requirements.
• Ensures there is a current approved, posted menu in the cottage and ensures dietary standards are followed, i.e., appropriate snack portion size adherence to menu.
• Ensures USDA meal census requirements are being followed and documented daily. Review, approve, and submit to Business Office in accordance with billing deadlines.
• Responsible for budget management for their living unit.
• Oversee the purchasing of household supplies, program supplies, and clothing in accordance with all agency policies and procedures.
• Implements the program’s daily schedule and ensures completion of routines and life skill activities.
• Oversees the planning for special events, holidays, birthdays, etc., so that they are recognized and celebrated.
• Maintains an environment that is safe by ensuring agency policies are upheld.
• Reviews individual logs & locators to ensure completion.
• Dispenses and/or oversees the dispensing of medication. Monitors procedures, ensuring that medications are inventoried and reordered as needed, in collaboration with nursing staff.
• Responsible for banking of individuals in their living units.
• Develops and maintains annual financial ledgers.
• Responsible for proper documentation and notifications regarding vehicle maintenance, cleanliness, and mileage.
• Participates in the Treatment Team, Clinical Management meetings, and other committees as assigned.
• Manages in accordance with applicable Laws, regulations, union contract, agency policies, etc.
• Attends elective internal and external training for continued professional development.
• Responsible for checking email daily and communicating appropriate information to staff.

Residential Administrator on Duty (AOD)/Managerial Coverage:

• In the absence of an AOD, functions as the point person for the Residential Treatment Center.
• Duties include but are not limited to: facility security checks, walk through, collecting and processing pertinent paperwork.
• Ensuring staffing standards are in adherence to regulatory standards.
• Assigning and reassigning staff in accordance with the individual needs of the units.

Required Education, Knowledge and Skills:

• Minimum of High School Diploma with related management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred.
• Valid NYS Driver's License with a clean MVR. 
• Ability to complete all training including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI).
• Must be able to walk and run to maintain the safety of individuals.

Abilities and Working Conditions:

• Must be available to work evenings and/or weekends.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation
• Willingness to respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to deal positively with the changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Display a positive, professional, and proactive attitude to accomplish quality work that is in line with the agency's mission statement. Seek opinions and alternative viewpoints in decision-making. Understand and respect the expertise and experience of others, appreciate the different views, and the perspective and limitations of other individuals
• Exhibits a professional, courteous demeanor with internal and external constituents.

Pay: $62,400 annually

Vanderheyden is committed to the National Sanctuary Model - a blueprint for clinical and organizational change which, at its core, promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma-informed community.  The Sanctuary Model's focus is not only on the people who seek services, but equally on the people and systems that provide those services.

  Vanderheyden Hall Inc., as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices on the basis of gender, race or ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, military or marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, prior arrest or conviction record or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.