Adult Day Health Coordinator

General Statement of Duties

Performs administrative, professional, and supervisory work in managing the adult day/health center program for older and disabled adults.

An employee in this class is responsible for planning, organizing, and supervising day/health services for older and disabled adults and CAP/MR citizens participating in the day care center programs. Work includes managing the budget, ensuring expenditures are within the approved budget, and collecting fees; developing program policies and procedures, overseeing and ensuring proper documentation is maintained, and supervising staff in the delivery of personal care, safety, socialization and group activities, and transportation services.

Work involves recruitment of clients, grant writing, determining eligibility and service plan development, and serving as an advocate for clients. The employee takes the lead and works with staff in planning and leading activities, and spends some percentage of time providing the personal care services with the clients as needed for staffing coverage. Professional work also includes coordination and facilitation of an Alzheimer’s Support group and preparing social evaluations for guardianship cases.

Work involves ensuring adherence to state standards and regulations, and agency policies, procedures, and regulations. Sound judgment and initiative and professional knowledge of the field of social work or the health fields and mental conditions of older and disabled adults are required. Public contact requires tact and diplomacy. Duties may expose the worker to human body fluids thus, the position is subject to the OSHA requirements on blood borne pathogens.

Work is performed independently under the general supervision of the Executive Director and is reviewed through conferences, review of records and reports, observation, and program accomplishments.

• Ensures program operates within the approved budget and according to the standards and requirements of funding sources; tracks bills and receipts; approves expenditures and routes to finance.
• Develops and proposes a fee schedule with the Executive Director and Finance Director to ensure costs are covered; completes bills and required forms to bill funding sources; writes funding grants and completes required reports.
• Develops program standards, policies and procedures assuring adherence to state and/or funding source standards and requirements.
• Provides information on the program to clients, families and others; explains policies, procedures and cost, completes required forms such as application, consent forms, etc. and develops service plans.
• Responsible for completing CACFP applications, determining eligibility, monitoring meal patterns, completing requests for reimbursement, maintaining all records according to 7
  
  CRF
  226.15(e), and approving purchases.
• Ensures training of CACFP staff is current.
• Serves as Sponsoring Organization monitor of the Child Day Care.
• Ensures that kitchen and dining room meet required health standards.
• Ensures that all Civil Rights requirements are met.
• Organizes, supervises, and participates in the daily operation of the adult day care program; schedules clients based on needs; plans monthly activity and snack schedules; reviews daily progress notes completed by staff.
• Supervises staff working with clients in the center; recruits, hires, orients, trains, coaches and motivates, evaluates performance; takes disciplinary action and dismisses aides; recommends dismissal of professional staff.
• Provides leadership in planning program activities; involves staff in assisting with the planning, preparing, and leading activities.
• Works in the day care center; leads activities; interacts with clients and assists with bathroom needs, feeding, etc.; completes progress notes on client participation and needs, etc.; coordinates intergenerational activities with on-site children’s day care center.
• Fosters relationships with clients and families; talks with and encourages clients; keeps families informed of changes in health or behavior by telephone, in person, and by correspondence; listens…