Assistant Director Community Supports

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Full Time Salary Lexington Park, MD, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $72,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

JOB TITLE: Assistant Director, Community Supports

DEPARTMENT
:
Community Services

REPORTS TO: Director of Community Supports

FSLA CLASSIFICATION: Exempt

LEVEL OF WORK: Senior management

SALARY: 72,000k - 80,000k

JOB PURPOSE:

• Under general supervision, Assistant Director oversees the operations of all assigned services. The Assistant Director improves services and assures measured outcomes throughout the assigned services. The Assistant Director assures that staff meet all measures of the agency’s quality improvement plan. The Assistant Director follows and implements written procedures and systems relating to guidelines, practices, procedures, and policies of The Arc assuring that staff apply them consistently in all assigned services and with consistency to other Departments.
• The Assistant Director:
  • Provides supervision and guidance to assigned staff
  • Evaluates staffing in assigned locations to assure that the staffing meets the needs of the people receiving the services while maintaining the assigned budgets
  • Assures that managers and other assigned staff adhere to the established guidelines, practices, procedures and policies
  • Assures that funding plans reflect the actual needs of each person receiving supports
  • Assures that the Managers deliver the supports outlined in the plans
  • Assures that if budgets become inadequate for the changing needs of people that s/he submits new service funding plans to DDA and assure follow through to conclusion
  • Assures that staff maintain required training to administer medication and other delegated nursing functions
  • Maintains cooperative professional relationships with all support team members; following ethical standards of practice (confidentiality, informed consent, etc)
• This Assistant Director is responsible for employment, day, community supports, autism waiver, virtual, ISS, DORS, and personal support programs, along with the Director who oversees them all.
• Directs the activities along with the community supports manager of The Arc Southern Chesapeake locations (Calvert, St. Mary’s, Charles and Anne Arundel) and all other employment, recreational or volunteer sites

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervision of staff
  • Sets performance goals tailored to each assigned staff person
  • Maintains a climate which attracts, keeps, and motivates a staff of top-quality people
  • Facilitates an atmosphere of open communication with the staff through regularly scheduled staff meetings and frequent interaction with key personnel
  • Provides on the job training and mentoring for assigned staff
  • Oversees or guides the development of schedules for all assigned services
  • Supervises assigned staff by interviewing, evaluating, counseling, terminating
  • Assures that all assigned staff meets agency requirements for training
• Service Delivery
  • Maintains systems of operations to assure efficiency, fairness, and economy
  • Efficiently operates programs in accordance with good business practices, current technological methods, and in compliance with all contractual obligations
  • Assist with monitoring department performance against performance goals to ensure progress and taking corrective action, as necessary
  • Leads programs to build organizational capabilities
  • Monitors potential crises, discussing incidents with authorized staff and people receiving services, adjusting support, and complying with regulations for reporting
• Maintains and contains expenses in all assigned programs while meeting the needs of the people…