What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Director 6 -Emancipation Center position at The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD?
Brief Description
Are you ready to make a real difference in people's lives? Join the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD as a Program Director 6 for Emancipation Center. The Program Director VI is responsible for assuring adequate staffing patterns, meeting performance standards and compliance metrics for supervised programs. It provides qualitative, supportive, budgetary, and administrative leadership to staff and supervisors. This position works in collaboration with other agency divisions and support departments to achieve CPEP Division goals and objectives. This position maintains effective collaborative working relationships with law enforcement and various community stakeholders. This position requires on-call status 24/7, a flexible work schedule, presentations, and travel.
Your Role In Action
The Harris Center not only offers a competitive salary but also a suite of excellent benefits designed to enrich your life both professionally and personally. Imagine a future with a robust retirement plan complemented by our generous company matching – a testament to our investment in your long-term financial well-being. Experience the unique advantage of our prior service credit, accelerating your journey towards a more substantial Paid Time Off accrual, empowering you to enjoy well-deserved breaks.
Enjoy Cell Phone Discounts, exclusive entertainment deals through Tickets at Work, and a free Headspace subscription for mental wellness. Additionally, our Employee Assistance Program supports your overall well-being.
Take advantage of significant financial relief through student loan forgiveness as a valued member of The Harris Center team. As a qualifying entity, our employees are eligible for various student loan forgiveness programs, designed to alleviate the financial burdens associated with higher education.
What Else You Should Know
The Harris Center is the state-designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Authority serving Harris County, Texas. As the largest behavioral and developmental disability care center in Texas, The Harris Center provides care to over 90,000 people and has an annual budget of over $300 million.
As part of its mission to transform the lives of people with behavioral health and IDD needs in the third largest county in the United States, The Harris Center provides a full continuum of services at 80 different sites across Harris County. In addition, services are provided in more than 40 different languages as well as sign language in order to better serve what is one of the largest communities in the nation.
By utilizing the unique expertise of its more than 2,500 employees, The Harris Center is committed to meeting the behavioral health and IDD needs of Harris County residents and giving them hope to live to their fullest potential.
Contributes to suicide care and prevention by embracing our values and applying a trauma-informed approach rooted in safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment.
Are you ready to make a real difference in people's lives? Join the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD as a Program Director 6 for Emancipation Center. The Program Director VI is responsible for assuring adequate staffing patterns, meeting performance standards and compliance metrics for supervised programs. It provides qualitative, supportive, budgetary, and administrative leadership to staff and supervisors. This position works in collaboration with other agency divisions and support departments to achieve CPEP Division goals and objectives. This position maintains effective collaborative working relationships with law enforcement and various community stakeholders. This position requires on-call status 24/7, a flexible work schedule, presentations, and travel.
Your Role In Action
- Plans and implements program/unit objectives in accordance with required applicable policies, plans and procedures.
- Monitors the delivery of appropriate services. Reviews Utilization Review and Quality Assurancereports. Creates/implements, monitors corrective action plans based upon report results.
- Develops, prioritizes, and implements measurable goals and objectives and processes to meet Agency mission, performance targets/requirements and Quality standards related to the delivery of clinical care.
- Reviews all data available to ensure compliance with contract performance targets, quality management audits and other regulatory requirements and ensures processes are instituted for correction of non-compliant areas.
- In collaboration with the Division's Budget Manager, monitors achievement of budgetary targets(expenses and revenue) for programs supervised & assures correction for unacceptable variances.
- Works collaboratively with Law Enforcement and community stakeholders to facilitate information in a coordinated and timely manner.
- Works collaboratively with agency staff to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Coordinates as requested with local, state, federal, and other agencies and entities to improve operations, treatment outcomes and collaborations.
- Works collaboratively with the Vice President and other management staff of the CPEP Division as designated to communicate ongoing and timely information impacting the delivery of mental health services to consumers in an emergency and/or disaster event.
- Participates in projects or tasks such as: Cross-Departmental Collaboration, Ad-Hoc Projects, Training and Mentoring, Event Coordination, Research and Development, Compliance and Reporting, or any project where involvement is requested or required.
- Responsible for assuring that managers maintain established productivity and quality standards for staff in supervised programs.
- Complies with Agency policies and procedures and remains current with Agency training. Maintains professional licensure in the State of Texas.
- Performs related work as assigned and adapts to changing work requirements and environments.
- What qualifications will you need:
- Master's degree in the Human services field
- Maintains current licensure/credentials with appropriate state licensure regulatory board.
- 7 years’ experience working in mental health setting.
- 5 years management experience supervising staff and managing budgets.
- Must have experience working collaboratively with other professional groups in preparing reports and recommendations for administrative purposes
- Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Must have basic knowledge of principles of the development, implementation and documentation of individualized care and treatment.
- Must have working knowledge of basic principles of management.
- Strong communication skills – listening and interpersonal skills above average, written documentation is clear, concise, well-constructed and grammatically correct.
- Must have the ability to work collaboratively with other professional groups and possess the skill in preparing reports and recommendations for administrative purposes.
- Effective time management and organizational skills
- Able to utilize basic Word/Excel (Microsoft) documents successfully.
- Recognizes the importance and benefits of developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with community stakeholders.
- Ability to adapt and exhibit flexibility when asked to modify or complete projects.
The Harris Center not only offers a competitive salary but also a suite of excellent benefits designed to enrich your life both professionally and personally. Imagine a future with a robust retirement plan complemented by our generous company matching – a testament to our investment in your long-term financial well-being. Experience the unique advantage of our prior service credit, accelerating your journey towards a more substantial Paid Time Off accrual, empowering you to enjoy well-deserved breaks.
Enjoy Cell Phone Discounts, exclusive entertainment deals through Tickets at Work, and a free Headspace subscription for mental wellness. Additionally, our Employee Assistance Program supports your overall well-being.
Take advantage of significant financial relief through student loan forgiveness as a valued member of The Harris Center team. As a qualifying entity, our employees are eligible for various student loan forgiveness programs, designed to alleviate the financial burdens associated with higher education.
What Else You Should Know
- This posting is associated with position #70289.
- Location: 419 Emancipation Ave., Houston, TX 77003 - this facility will maintain operations 24/7 to ensure continuous support and service.
- This position is grant funded and may be modified or discontinued based on funding or program changes.
The Harris Center is the state-designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Authority serving Harris County, Texas. As the largest behavioral and developmental disability care center in Texas, The Harris Center provides care to over 90,000 people and has an annual budget of over $300 million.
As part of its mission to transform the lives of people with behavioral health and IDD needs in the third largest county in the United States, The Harris Center provides a full continuum of services at 80 different sites across Harris County. In addition, services are provided in more than 40 different languages as well as sign language in order to better serve what is one of the largest communities in the nation.
By utilizing the unique expertise of its more than 2,500 employees, The Harris Center is committed to meeting the behavioral health and IDD needs of Harris County residents and giving them hope to live to their fullest potential.
Contributes to suicide care and prevention by embracing our values and applying a trauma-informed approach rooted in safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment.
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