Assistant Unit Director

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Job Description
- Assistant Unit Director (260005OG)

Job Description

Description

Note:
This position is located at 4 Hathorne Circle at Hogan Regional Center
- Danvers, MA

The Assistant Unit Director, in conjunction with the Unit Director, is responsible for all aspects of the resident’s lives including but not limited to healthcare, activities of daily living, programmatic services, leisure and recreational services as well as full compliance with Title XIX standards. In addition, this position participates in the development and implementation of facility policies and procedures.

The Assistant Unit Director provides ongoing administrative oversight for all aspects of residential and programmatic services can be challenging. Works closely with Labor Management and Human Resources on issues such as transfers, leaves, industrial accidents, and disciplinary hearings can be a challenge due to the increased number of approved FMLA and IA’s. Measures the progress of programs and approaches in meeting service provision and operational system goals and works under significant time pressures to meet unanticipated demands.

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all-inclusive):

• Plans, develops, evaluates, supervises staff in the process for implementing the delivery of mandated residential and day program services for individuals with intellectual disabilities in order to ensure individual needs are met and active treatment achieved.
• Allocates and deploys staff to achieve facility/unit goals for individuals with intellectual disabilities by ensuring proper levels of trained personnel are available.
• Request additional positions, as individual's needs change.
• Manage fiscal performance related to operations, including monitoring overtime, conducting cost analysis, and making operational adjustments to align staffing and services with budgetary constraints.
• Recruits, interviews and recommendations for hiring applicants for all unitized positions by assessing candidates' qualifications, following bargaining agreements and affirmative action guidelines where appropriate, maintain a low vacancy rate.
• Works closely with Labor Relations, B&L/Olpa to ensure criteria is met for FMLA process.
• Monitor staff attendance, conduct, etc. and provide disciplinary recommendations to Labor Relations as well as participating in Labor Management personnel discipline hearings for and the grievance process.
• Monitors the maintenance of supplies/equipment/physical plant by ensuring residential and program areas are in compliance with State and Federal guidelines.
• Oversees and reviews the implementation of Department's evaluation system by managing staff in the maintenance of a tracking/notification system; instruct supervisors on assessing job performance and setting job criteria.
• Participate in various facility committees i.e., Transfer, Consolidation,