Psychosocial Group Manager

Description

Community Based Services (CBS)

CBS Director

Exempt

First/Mid-Level Officials & Mgrs.

Full Time

Occasional travel within Lyon County

Mon – Fri, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Psychosocial Group Staff, Classroom Lead, Psychosocial Group Assistant, Daytime Program Lead, Summer Program Staff

The Psychosocial Group Manager provides oversight of psychosocial group service functions, an intensive outpatient treatment group for at-risk youth, through the achievement of compliance standards, providing leadership and effective supervision of program staff, and developing and maintaining successful relationships with clients, staff, and service provider partners.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides oversight to staff within the psychosocial group functions.
• Assists with group operations and administration ensuring effective supervision of program staff. Ensures compliance with company policies including staff ratios, progress note timeliness and accuracy, and developing and maintaining successful relationships with clients, staff, and service provider partners.
• Provides oversight to the enrollment process ensuring effective staffing patterns and proper communication/collaboration with families and referring partners.
• Oversees services provided to children and adults in an effort to teach individuals to develop appropriate behaviors and personal attitudes for successful functioning at home, school, and in the community. Services will focus on skill-building related to communication skills, self-esteem, anger management, and emotions.
• Provides effective leadership to department staff to promote and facilitate the delivery of professional and timely services to clients, families, agency staff, and visitors.
• Provides targeted case management, crisis case management, and any other necessary services to ensure effective operation of the program and communication with community partners and families.
• Meets or exceeds the productive standard of client contact hours set for position.

This job primarily operates in a professional office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as tablets/computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; handle objects; grasp and reach for items with hands and arms; manipulate hands and fingers; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. The employee is required to become certified in Managing Aggressive Behaviors (MAB), which includes training in proper restraint/physical intervention techniques to be utilized as a last resort.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Language skills are required, including the ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak the English language. This position also requires the ability to interpret written materials, write reports and business correspondence, and effectively present and respond to questions.

This job description has been examined for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the…