Position Overview 

The Program Consultant provides consultation, supervision, and training to employees of the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). The Program Consultant is responsible for disseminating agency and program information to social services agencies, childcare institutions, etc. This person will also assist with pre-service/in-service training, interviewing and hiring prospective employees, scheduling, and Direct Care Staff Evaluations on an as needed basis. This position carries out other program and administrative responsibilities as assigned. Under the direction of the Director of Teaching-Family Services, the Program Consultant will provide consultation, training, and evaluation services for implementation of the Teaching-Family Model. The Program Consultant reports directly to the Director of RTC. This position will be 40 hours per week and requires weekend coverage.

Responsibilities

Provides consultation, supervision, in-service training, pre-service training, and related support services to the staff of the RTC.
Makes regular visits for observation and training.

Provides a direct conduit to the central administrative office for RTC needs and concerns. 

Assists Director of RTC and/or Director of Residential Services with the development, production and presentation of pre-service workshop training on an as needed basis. 

Assists with the production and delivery of staff professional evaluations, and other data collection and quality control programs on an as needed basis. Has primary involvement in the annual performance evaluations of the staff under his/her supervision. 

Assists Residential Treatment Center Director with evaluating and recommending youth admissions into the facility. May conduct admissions on occasion and assist with Medicaid approval for admissions and/or continued stays. Serves on admissions committee for purpose of critiquing all youth applicants. 

Assists with the recruitment and selection of staff. 

Is a member and active participant in the Teaching-Family Association and other relevant local and national organizations. 

Provides 24-hour emergency consultation to RTC. 

Serves as a member of the Quality Improvement committee and maintains appointed joint commission standard/section as assigned by the Director for the Residential Treatment Center. 

Provides other related functions as assigned. 

Qualifications 

• Proven ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress, fast paced position with a minimal amount of supervision. 
• Degree from an accredited University preferred, or combined 60 hours of college credit and qualified, relevant experience. 
• High school diploma required. 
• Certification in Teaching-Family Model required. 
• A minimum of three years’ experience working with youth is preferred. 
• Must be available to work weekends.

Additional Mandatory Requirements 

• Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability.
• Requires the ability to sit and stand for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with hands and arms.
• Use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, and reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.
• Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.
• Requires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from specific jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

Flu vaccinations are mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Other: The individual employed in this position may accept other reasonable assignments, which may be necessary, for efficient operation of assigned programs as there is time and opportunity.

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work, he or she is performing during the overtime hours.

Level One - Full Access: Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure. "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians).