What are the responsibilities and job description for the RESIDENTIAL MANAGER position at DAKOTA MILESTONES PROPOSAL 1?
Mission Statement: To empower people and enhance lives.
REPORTS TO: Residential Services Coordinator
WORKS AS A TEAM MEMBER WITH: Executive Director
Director of Quality Enhancement
Program Development Specialist
Program Coordinators
Support Professionals
Nursing Staff
Family/Guardian/Advocates/Friends
HOURS: Flexible 40 hours per week.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Will provide support to people served at Dakota Milestones to achieve their personal outcomes as a result of ongoing development, coordination, and implementation of the Outcome Support Plan. This process includes but is not limited to:
- Advocacy: supporting self-advocacy, assisting people to live self-directed lives, while fostering a partnership with the people supported, other professionals, and the community.
- Respect: supporting and recognizing each person’s values and uniqueness, while assisting them to understand the values and uniqueness of others. Promoting personal rights and responsibilities. Understanding and enforcing the confidentiality and privacy of the people supported.
- Documentation: record the person’s preferences, dreams, and desires while providing them with education, experience, and exposure; indicate progress towards or barriers to reaching personal goals.
- Self Determination: assist people to direct the course of their own lives. Provide the person served with the support and the information necessary to build self-esteem and assertiveness, and to make decisions.
- Communication: effectively communicate relevant information in a timely manner, comply with all reporting procedures according to agency policies, knowledge of the person and their communication skills in order to gather personal outcome information and the ability and willingness to communicate effectively with all agency team members.
- Will be assigned to and serve as an active member of specific teams in order to:
- Assist the person to develop an outcome plan that reflects their dreams, hopes, and desires.
- Implement outcome plans, which include teaching activities of daily living skills, providing options for a variety of community activities, supporting person as needed.
- Conduct both formal and informal assessment practices in order to respond to the dreams and desires of the person served. Conduct personal outcome interviews to discover how the person served defines each outcome.
- Be aware of Dakota Milestones’ documentation requirements and manage these requirements efficiently.
- Provide positive behavior support techniques specific to the needs of each person. Knowing the person well enough to conduct a functional analysis of behaviors. Actively teach the person a replacement behavior.
- Identify potential rights restrictions and develop a pro-active attainable restoration plan. Know how the person defines which rights are most important to them.
- Teach people to recognize and report all forms of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. All team members will recognize and report any suspected incidents of abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Assist people with the administration of their medication. Educate people about their medications: why they are taken, what the medication is, times to be taken, the doctor who prescribed it, etc.
- Will be familiar and comply with all health and safety regulations as they pertain to assigned work area in order to:
- Teach the people served to anticipate, recognize, and take care of safety issues to the best of their ability. Teach skills, which will allow the person to maintain healthy living and safety at, work, home, and in the community ie. Pedestrian safety, personal care, sexuality, self-administration of medications and side effects, physical conditions, etc. Assist the team to identify potential risks at work and living environment and develop a plan, which will ensure the person’s safety.
- Will participate in Dakota Milestones’ staff meetings and trainings in order to:
- Continually improves services provided to the people served.
- Continually increase basic/technical knowledge, skills, and abilities relating to providing services to people with disabilities.
- Increase team building and communication skills with all agency staff. Discuss and share information related to assisting people to achieve outcomes and assist in developing as agency plan to respond to the needs and desires of the people served.
- Be familiar with and comply with all ARSD rules and specific staff training needs.
- Become a leader in providing quality service and striving to facilitate problem solving and negotiation.
- Will supervise Support Professionals and ensure management duties are completed:
A. Complete orientation of new employees.
B. Ensure minor repairs and/or maintenance needs of the building, grounds, and vehicles are tended to, and that more major repairs and/or maintenance problems are brought to the attention of the Residential Services Coordinator or the Executive Director.
C. Ensure van logs are accurate.
D. Ensure primary Support Professionals in immediate home are completing objectives and services and supports as determined by each person’s served team, by completing monthly monitoring of objectives and providing monitoring information to Program Coordinators.
E. Review assessments written by primary Support Professionals in immediate home.
F. Complete monthly site visit of home and provide report and planned corrective action to Residential Services Coordinator by the 15th of each month.
G. If appropriate for home, ensure school lunch program documentation is completed accurately each day and turned in to Center Cook by the 3rd of each month.
H. Ensure cleaning supplies have MSDS sheets if appropriate for home.
I. Complete fire drills each month and tornado drills monthly from April until September and
turn in completed form to the Residential Services Coordinator no later than the 15th of each
month. Two fire drills a year and one tornado drill needs to be completed during “sleeping hours” between 11:00 pm and 6:00 am.
J. Part of on-call rotation on weekends to assist with staffing needs, emergencies, etc.
K. Ensure that there is adequate food available at all times by ensuring grocery shopping is done regularly for people supported in the home.
L. Ensure primary Support Professionals and yourself balance the check registers of people support in the home each time a check is written and that check registers are reconciled with the bank statements each month and sent in to the Program Coordinator Assistant.
M. Ensure attendance record is kept and turned in to Business Manager by the first business working day each month.
N. Take part in specific committees as appointed by the Executive Director.
O. Provide general supervision of all people living in immediate home.
P. Pick up and check in medications for immediate home.
Q. Ensure medication administration sheets are proofed when sent by nursing staff and make changes as needed. As well as ensure all information in medication books of people supported is update (ie. Prescriptions, doctor’s orders and medication administration sheets).
We learn about personal outcomes only when we talk to the people served and learn what is important to them. As a result, other duties may be assigned on the premise that staff at Dakota Milestones are working for the people served.
EDUCATION: Minimum Requirements. High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED). Experience in the human service field or working with people with developmental disabilities.
Preferred but not required: BA/BS degree in Human Services related field.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIRED: Employees must be able to engage in physical activity, heavy lifting, stooping, pushing/pulling items, as well as assisting people served in behavioral/safety situations and in medical emergencies.