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Participate in a dynamic team providing support to individuals with mental illness and substance use disorder. Provide for a positive environment to foster the development of independent living skills while monitoring and role modeling health and safety. Maintains ongoing residential effectiveness by assuring the administrative coordination of a variety of safety, therapeutic, and operational issues, and oversees daily administrative activities. Collaborates with all staff and client families to accomplish the establishment and maintenance of a safe, effective milieu.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provides leadership to the team in conjunction with unit supervisor.
• Initiates resolution of compliance issues as they are identified.
• Assists staff with daily duties and supports the team as a whole.
• Provides administrative oversight and supervision by scheduling of staff and providing staff feedback as needed.
• Provides enhanced support/coordination with providers to ensure residents needs are met.
• Thoroughly understands and appropriately uses behavior management, active listening, positive and negative feedback as well as systems in client and family centered practice.
• Supports individuals by being flexible, non-judgmental and having positive regard to improve the individual's outcome in a collaborative manor.
• Actively assists clients in achieving their goals.
• Transports to clients using company or personal vehicle.
• Provides a supportive presence during appointments that are related to treatment goals.
• Implements supervisory directions.
• Promote and maintain basic milieu practices regarding, structuring the environment (therapeutic and safety), safety, awareness, behavioral management and communication.
• Directs and participate in therapeutic interactions, skills building, role in modeling and carrying out treatment plan.
• Direct, support, and participate in identifying, removing or reducing the likelihood of common safety concerns such as: Unsafe client behavior, threats directed at self, staff, client family, or residential peers, unsafe staff behavior, acute milieu or environment situational dangers including sharps, meds, dangerous chemicals, detergents and cleaners as well as personal items of staff or clients which could become safety concerns such as, key sets, small penknives, mace, contents of a wallet which could include credit cards, addresses, etc.
• CRMA certified, responsible for passing medicines and appropriate documentation.

GENERAL EXPECTATIONS:

• Ability to support and recognize the important role volunteers play.  Sweetser employees work with, support, collaborate with volunteers, and promote opportunities for volunteer engagement
• Externally and internally seeks to improve processes’ quality and effectiveness.
• Understands role of compliance in maintaining quality, professional services.
• Consistently models effective, therapeutic behavior in interactions with clients or staff.
• Models professional, respectful behavior by participation.
• Asks questions, seeks clarification of theory and identifies application(s) of training information within program.
• Assists or co-facilitates training as requested or required.
• Facilitates and encourages relevant questions tied to professional growth.
• Seeks out opportunities to provide professional feedback and input.
• Encourages and reinforces individual, independent problem-solving.
• Confident in organizational knowledge regarding, professional behavioral expectations, all administrative protocols, program mission and management challenges.
• Oversees, initiates, and assures timely and effective communications with internal and external service providers, such as case manager, FCS Specialists, and involved state departments.
• Interacts with Sweetser families in programs and in the community.
• Participates and carries out directions of supervisor as requested.
• Functions in the community as a representative of the program and Sweetser.
• Initiates and facilitates discussions as identified.
• Follow Suicide safer care practices.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.
  

EDUCATION & REQUIREMENTS:

• High school diploma required, associate’s degree preferred.
• Ability to obtain MHRT-1 certification within 1 year of employment.
• Must maintain a valid state driver’s license.
• One (1) year experience working in mental health, required.
• Supervisory experience, preferred.