Program Supervisor

Trillium Family Services•Albany, OR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Our Young Adult Program is HIRING! When given the individualized support and opportunities they need, young adults living with behavioral health challenges can prepare for a successful transition into adulthood. The Young Adult Program is a voluntary residential program for individuals struggling with significant mental health diagnoses as they transition toward independent living. Make an impact by helping us reach our goal to help young adults understand and manage their mental health needs with the help of community supports and on-site treatment services. This program was initiated in efforts to help transitional age youth who are living with mental health challenges function successfully in the community and be less inclined to become homeless or dependent on the system for everyday needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral science discipline.
Three years of experience as a direct care worker with at-risk children and youth in a treatment setting.
Proven direct supervision experience which includes interviews job applicants and makes hiring recommendations. Managing grievances brought by assigned staff and recommending resolution. Providing verbal and written disciplinary action to assigned staff and recommending additional discipline up to and including termination if warranted. Preparing performance evaluations, ensuring staff coverage, assigning overtime and managing employees' timecards.
A commitment to non-violence: Helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose.
A commitment to emotional intelligence: Helping to teach emotional management skills.
A commitment to social learning: Helping to build cognitive skills.
A commitment to open communication: Helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management, reduce acting out, enhance self-protective and self-correcting skills, teach health boundaries.

Responsibilities

Interpersonal and Communication Skills conducive to an effective leader: including ability to provide positive customer service to community teams and families, work collaboratively with other programs on campus, and demonstrates ability to use creativity and problem-solving skills.
Ability to provide administrative supervision of assigned staff. Supervision should include a focus on developing mastery of their essential duties, responsibilities, and competencies as well as ongoing professional development; this does include the use of progressive discipline and termination, if needed. Provide individual and group supervision to all direct reports and maintain documentation of such as per regulatory requirements.
Ability to lead and foster skills in staff members to best serve clients in the program, support Manager in facilitating cottage programming across all shifts, evaluating client milieu plans and communicate with the clinical teams about these plans, ensuring staff participate in clinical meetings.
Ability to effectively train program staff on interventions, agency protocols, and other critical components of the program. Has the skills and knowledge to facilitate official agency trainings as appropriate.
Ability to efficiently and effectively complete all administrative tasks for this role, which may include case management, customer service, training management, budget management, etc.
Clinical: Understand, lead, and participate in treatment process (from assessment to discharge), including interdisciplinary communication, engagement, documentation, relationship building and coordination of care responsibilities. Ability to administer medications to clients when needed, per policy. Provides coordination with external agencies serving youth, coordinate care for any appointments resident may have, ensure coordination with all pharmacy and medication related issues.
Programmatic: Provides supervision and training to assigned YAP Skills Trainers with a focus on developing mastery of their essential duties, responsibilities, and competencies as well as ongoing professional development. Will provide individual and group supervision to all direct reports and maintain documentation of such as per regulatory requirements. Responsible for arranging and assuring staff coverage and responding to program staff requests for time off. Provide direction, help and delegation as needed, to complete daily programmatic needs to promote the best care and environment to residents. Tasks could include, but are not limited to light housekeeping, preparation of resident space, outdoor care, organization of treatment interventions and any other programmatic need