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This job was posted by https://joblink.maine.gov : For more information, please see: https://joblink.maine.gov/jobs/1126949

Nature of Work:The Residential Care Coordinator is responsible for enhancing the quality of life for consumers served and promoting a positive work environment for Direct Support Professionals. The Residential Care Coordinator will accomplish this work through collaborative efforts with other direct care staff and the Residential Manager. With the support of a residential team the Residential Care Coordinator is responsible for maintaining a successful programs and healthy milieu for staff and consumers. The Residential Care Coordinators work is driven by the agencys mission to improve the quality of life by supporting independence.

Essential Functions

Consumer Support

• Be adequately prepared for and attend all PCP and team meetings.
• Provide input to develop and implement all written Individual Service Plans.
• Ensure that consumers receive medical, psychiatric and other services as necessary and follow informed consent procedures.
• Coordinate consumer appointments and transportation needs.
• Attend psychiatric, urgent and critical care appointments, as needed.
• Create weekly activity schedules that follow individual PCP plans and adhere to HCBS requirements.
• Identify different communication abilities of consumers and support/assist them in participating in their PCP and other team meetings.
• Maintain confidential consumer information files.
• The Residential Care Coordinator will be required to provide the services of a Direct Support Professional as needed.
• Attend all trainings as needed to obtain and maintain certifications.

Safety

• Perform routine checks of programs and maintain oversight in collaboration with the Residential Manager as assigned.
• Ensure the completion of vehicle maintenance, annual vehicle registrations and monthly vehicle drills.
• Conduct fire drills according to required timeframes and frequency.
• Create a safety awareness culture by role-modeling safe behavior and discussing safety-related issues with staff.
• Inform staff when unsafe procedures and behaviors occur.
• Correct and/or report to appropriate supervisor any safety issues.

Documentation

• Respond to daily documentation audits with a plan of correction for DSPs as assigned.
• Submit monthly paperwork in adherence to deadlines.
• Maintain and support consumer financial plans and records.
• Respond to QA audits within given timeframe.
• Complete weekly service unit report for admin hours.

Leadership

• Maintain open and professional communication with all employees, colleagues, supervisors, consumers and outside parties.
• Complete bi-monthly competency checklists with DSPs within assigned program.
• Complete a comprehensive DSP orientation for all staff within assigned program.
• Participate in Residential meetings as scheduled.
• Provide timely performance feedback to DSPs coaching/training notes.
• Provide feedback to the Residential Manager to inform accurate 90-day and yearly DSP performance evaluations.
• Ensure trainings are entered on WhentoWork and promote accountability in training attendance with all program staff with delivery of coaching/training notes as needed.
• Provide 24/7 on-call support to residential programs as assigned.
• Follow all policies and protocols to maintain a safe, healthy, and therapeutic environment.
• In collaboration with the Residential Manager, maintain weekly work schedules which minimize overtime, meets parameters of authorized program hours.

Other Duties:Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities t hat are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time.

Requirements

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While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; sit; walk; use hands and fingers; handle; reach with arms and hands; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. Must be able to lift and/or move at least 75 pounds to assist in life skills, such as bathing, physical rescue, and wheelchair assistance. Specific vision abilities may include close vision; color vision and the ability to adjust focus. Exposure to outside weather conditions while working with consumers. Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud. :::