Health​/Mental Health Program Manager

Location: Houston EHS, TX

Job : 281

# of Openings: 1

Job Title:
Health/Mental Health Program Manager

Category:
Exempt

Program:
Urban Strategies Early Head Start Houston

Work Schedule:

Five days per week / 40 hours per week / 12 months per year.

Reports to:

Director, Early Head Start Houston

Urban Strategies tools, connects, and resources grassroots organizations to serve children and families in need. Our highly qualified team has a passionate commitment to bring about real change within our country’s most vulnerable communities. Our desire is to see individuals, families, and communities realize their fullest potential by achieving these goals:

• Keeping children safe and secure
• Building nurturing and stable families and fostering effective parenting
• Improving school readiness
• Developing social and emotional competence
• Advancing research-based practices

By reaching these goals, Urban Strategies is meeting its mission to develop strong healthy families, advance the school readiness of children, build engaged communities, and make a difference in vulnerable communities.

Direct the provision of high-quality health services (medical and dental health, mental health, Safety Practices), health promotion and health education to Early Head Start (EHS) infants, and toddlers. Collaborate with community partners, parents, and staff in the implementation of the Health Services Advisory committee. Assure compliance with the Head Start Performance Standards and other applicable regulations. Adhere to best health care principles and practices.

Direct/provide training and technical assistance to staff, parents, and community. Establish/maintain comprehensive recordkeeping and reporting systems. Extensive interaction with children, staff, parents, and the larger community is also required.

• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with management team:
  • to create health goals/outcomes that support school readiness.
  • to create the Urban Strategies EHS Holistic Health Care System that encompasses physical health, oral health, nutrition, mental health services and safety practices.
  • to ensure the implementation of the US EHS Health Care System throughout the program.
• Develop policies and procedures for the US EHS Holistic Health Care System and oversee their implementation.
• Assess community, program, child, and family health care needs and available resources; compile and analyze data; produce reports; assure the integration of children with disabilities, dual language learners, homeless children, and children in foster care.
• Administer the health services budget and assure fiscal integrity.
• Assist in the development, implementation, and documentation of a comprehensive EHS staff and parent training and technical assistance program in health, oral health, mental health, and safety practices.
• Collaborate with Family/Community Engagement Manager to assure achievement of health care services goals and outcomes in all EHS families.
• Collaborates with the EHS Director in the assessment, development, and implementation of a training and technical assistance program for addressing safety practices in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards.
• Assume the lead role in the establishment of the Health Services Advisory Committee and maintain ongoing collaborative relationships with community organizations responsive to the concerns of infants and toddlers and their families.
• Assist with the development of the Community Assessment.
• Assist with the annual program self-assessment and federal onsite review process, focused on the holistic health care system; report on strengths, recommendations, required improvements; implement improvements and recommendations; incorporate into program planning process.

• Direct, monitor and report the timely delivery of medical, dental, physical, and mental health services to EHS children, ensuring compliance with regulatory timelines; analyze and report.
• Ensure that each enrolled child has a medical and dental “home" and health insurance; encourage and support families in their efforts to assume responsibility for ongoing…