Program Supervisor

POSITION SUMMARY

The Healing Homes Supervisor collaborates with YCPs, other professionals, youth, and families to foster a healing process within the program and for individual youth via daily activities and tailored

Healing Plans. They oversee the home's daily operations, manage cases for allyouth, and handle personnel matters for the staff team. The supervisor adopts astrength-based, trauma-informed, relational approach to child and youth care.

• Works collaboratively with YCPs and other professionals to create Healing Plans that include specific goals and assessment strategies tailored for each youth,involving the agency social worker, youth, and family.
• Supports and ensures, through supervision, that Healing Plans are effectively implemented by the Youth Care Practitioners and the team
• Meets regularly with other involved professionals for the purposes of collaboration,planning and updating the Healing Plan and daily life interaction/interventions.
• Ensures that all activities, routines, and interactions align with the therapeutic principles, the agency's overall approach, and the individual’s Healing Plan.
• Provides supervision to the Youth Care Practitioners to ensure their actions and interactions with youth and families align with the Healing Plans and support overall healing and development.
• Ensures that the YCPs engage with youth and families using a strength-based,trauma-informed, developmental, and relational Child & Youth Care approach.

• Is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the interventions described for allyouth, ensuring other professionals, youth, families and others' input into clinical aspects of Healing Plans for each young person and family
• Ensures that the referral, intake and discharge processes are conducted in accordance with Provincial and Agency standards and procedures
• Ensures that, in addition to Intake meetings, system meetings and Care Plan meetings are scheduled quarterly for all youth and that these meetings are chaired by themselves
• Ensures that all documentation is clear, accurate, professional and complies with Licensing, Program standards and The Link policies and procedures
• Coordinates communication with the placing agency, external collaterals and with other Link programs as needed
• Participates in hiring, supervises and evaluates all Youth Care Practitioners under the irresponsibility, in accordance with agency standards
• Maintains staffing to meet youth, family and program needs
• Provides support and guidance within the program as it relates to the youth and their
  
  Healing Plans to the staff team
• Ensures that the Youth Care Practitioners understand their job expectations and provides ongoing support to meet the expectations
• Provides mentorship and training/education to the staff in helping them to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to work effectively with the youth

• Creates and maintains, through the supervision of YCPs, a therapeutic and home-like environment within the program
• Ensures the physical maintenance of the home and its contents and property, as well asall equipment and vehicles of the program
• Ensures compliance with Residential Licensing, provincial program standards and The Link standards
• Contributes to the development of the program budget and ensures all decisions pertaining to purchasing are within that budget
• Ensures that the scheduling of youth care staff meets the youth and program needs
• Schedule sand chairs biweekly staff team meetings focusing on unit functioning, team functioning and individual youth Healing Plans,
• Develop sand maintains systems to ensure effective internal communication and documentation.
• Implements an on-call system that is reflective of program needs