Residential Care Coordinator - Group Main Stream Inc DBA GMS
Westbrook, ME
About the Job
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Nature of Work:The Residential Care Coordinator is responsible for
enhancing the quality of life for consumers served and promoting a
positive work environment for Direct Support Professionals. The
Residential Care Coordinator will accomplish this work through
collaborative efforts with other direct care staff and the Residential
Manager. With the support of a residential team the Residential Care
Coordinator is responsible for maintaining a successful programs and
healthy milieu for staff and consumers. The Residential Care
Coordinators work is driven by the agencys mission to improve the
quality of life by supporting independence.
Essential Functions
*Consumer Support*
- Be adequately prepared for and attend all PCP and team meetings.
- Provide input to develop and implement all written Individual
Service Plans.
- Ensure that consumers receive medical, psychiatric and other
services as necessary and follow informed consent procedures.
- Coordinate consumer appointments and transportation needs.
- Attend psychiatric, urgent and critical care appointments, as
needed.
- Create weekly activity schedules that follow individual PCP plans
and adhere to HCBS requirements.
- Identify different communication abilities of consumers and
support/assist them in participating in their PCP and other team
meetings.
- Maintain confidential consumer information files.
- The Residential Care Coordinator will be required to provide the
services of a Direct Support Professional as needed.
- Attend all trainings as needed to obtain and maintain
certifications.
*Safety*
- Perform routine checks of programs and maintain oversight in
collaboration with the Residential Manager as assigned.
- Ensure the completion of vehicle maintenance, annual vehicle
registrations and monthly vehicle drills.
- Conduct fire drills according to required timeframes and frequency.
- Create a safety awareness culture by role-modeling safe behavior and
discussing safety-related issues with staff.
- Inform staff when unsafe procedures and behaviors occur.
- Correct and/or report to appropriate supervisor any safety issues.
*Documentation*
- Respond to daily documentation audits with a plan of correction for
DSPs as assigned.
- Submit monthly paperwork in adherence to deadlines.
- Maintain and support consumer financial plans and records.
- Respond to QA audits within given timeframe.
- Complete weekly service unit report for admin hours.
*Leadership*
- Maintain open and professional communication with all employees,
colleagues, supervisors, consumers and outside parties.
- Complete bi-monthly competency checklists with DSPs within assigned
program.
- Complete a comprehensive DSP orientation for all staff within
assigned program.
- Participate in Residential meetings as scheduled.
- Provide timely performance feedback to DSPs coaching/training notes.
- Provide feedback to the Residential Manager to inform accurate
90-day and yearly DSP performance evaluations.
- Ensure trainings are entered on WhentoWork and promote
accountability in training attendance with all program staff with
delivery of coaching/training notes as needed.
- Provide 24/7 on-call support to residential programs as assigned.
- Follow all policies and protocols to maintain a safe, healthy, and
therapeutic environment.
- In collaboration with the Residential Manager, maintain weekly work
schedules which minimize overtime, meets parameters of authorized
program hours.
*Other Duties:*Please note this job description is not designed to
cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or
responsibilities t hat are required of the employee for this job. Duties,
responsibilities and activities may change at any time.
Requirements
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Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally
required to stand; sit; walk; use hands and fingers; handle; reach with
arms and hands; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; talk or hear; taste or
smell. Must be able to lift and/or move at least 75 pounds to assist in
life skills, such as bathing, physical rescue, and wheelchair
assistance. Specific vision abilities may include close vision; color
vision and the ability to adjust focus. Exposure to outside weather
conditions while working with consumers. Noise level in the work
environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud.
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please see: https://joblink.maine.gov/jobs/1126949
Nature of Work:The Residential Care Coordinator is responsible for
enhancing the quality of life for consumers served and promoting a
positive work environment for Direct Support Professionals. The
Residential Care Coordinator will accomplish this work through
collaborative efforts with other direct care staff and the Residential
Manager. With the support of a residential team the Residential Care
Coordinator is responsible for maintaining a successful programs and
healthy milieu for staff and consumers. The Residential Care
Coordinators work is driven by the agencys mission to improve the
quality of life by supporting independence.
Essential Functions
*Consumer Support*
- Be adequately prepared for and attend all PCP and team meetings.
- Provide input to develop and implement all written Individual
Service Plans.
- Ensure that consumers receive medical, psychiatric and other
services as necessary and follow informed consent procedures.
- Coordinate consumer appointments and transportation needs.
- Attend psychiatric, urgent and critical care appointments, as
needed.
- Create weekly activity schedules that follow individual PCP plans
and adhere to HCBS requirements.
- Identify different communication abilities of consumers and
support/assist them in participating in their PCP and other team
meetings.
- Maintain confidential consumer information files.
- The Residential Care Coordinator will be required to provide the
services of a Direct Support Professional as needed.
- Attend all trainings as needed to obtain and maintain
certifications.
*Safety*
- Perform routine checks of programs and maintain oversight in
collaboration with the Residential Manager as assigned.
- Ensure the completion of vehicle maintenance, annual vehicle
registrations and monthly vehicle drills.
- Conduct fire drills according to required timeframes and frequency.
- Create a safety awareness culture by role-modeling safe behavior and
discussing safety-related issues with staff.
- Inform staff when unsafe procedures and behaviors occur.
- Correct and/or report to appropriate supervisor any safety issues.
*Documentation*
- Respond to daily documentation audits with a plan of correction for
DSPs as assigned.
- Submit monthly paperwork in adherence to deadlines.
- Maintain and support consumer financial plans and records.
- Respond to QA audits within given timeframe.
- Complete weekly service unit report for admin hours.
*Leadership*
- Maintain open and professional communication with all employees,
colleagues, supervisors, consumers and outside parties.
- Complete bi-monthly competency checklists with DSPs within assigned
program.
- Complete a comprehensive DSP orientation for all staff within
assigned program.
- Participate in Residential meetings as scheduled.
- Provide timely performance feedback to DSPs coaching/training notes.
- Provide feedback to the Residential Manager to inform accurate
90-day and yearly DSP performance evaluations.
- Ensure trainings are entered on WhentoWork and promote
accountability in training attendance with all program staff with
delivery of coaching/training notes as needed.
- Provide 24/7 on-call support to residential programs as assigned.
- Follow all policies and protocols to maintain a safe, healthy, and
therapeutic environment.
- In collaboration with the Residential Manager, maintain weekly work
schedules which minimize overtime, meets parameters of authorized
program hours.
*Other Duties:*Please note this job description is not designed to
cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or
responsibilities t hat are required of the employee for this job. Duties,
responsibilities and activities may change at any time.
Requirements
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Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally
required to stand; sit; walk; use hands and fingers; handle; reach with
arms and hands; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; talk or hear; taste or
smell. Must be able to lift and/or move at least 75 pounds to assist in
life skills, such as bathing, physical rescue, and wheelchair
assistance. Specific vision abilities may include close vision; color
vision and the ability to adjust focus. Exposure to outside weather
conditions while working with consumers. Noise level in the work
environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud.
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