Job Description
Job Description
In addition to performing the functions of a Direct Care Worker (DCW), including preparing meals, assisting with eating meals, personal care, bathing, dressing, restroom assistance, administering medications, transferring, and preparing for daily activities and medical appointments, the Group Home Manager will perform administrative tasks such as scheduling and coverage, coaching and mentoring DCW staff.
- Engages with residents and when appropriate, DCWs in the home, to identify and implement activities required under the resident’s care plan.
- Perform or ensure all care plan prescribed activities including, but not limited to, meal preparation, clean-up, resident hygiene, passing medications, resident recreation activities, and preparing residents for appointments are provided in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, agreements, and the State standards.
- Accurate and timely completion and delivery of all necessary or required documentation relating to resident services or home operations.
- Attend and successfully complete all mandatory training and skill development programs, including continuing education as required.
- Report punctually to work and remain with residents until relieved from duty by another DCW.
- Reflect a high degree of professionalism in carrying out work assignments, coaching DCWs on standards of professionalism, including cultural sensitivity.
- Learn and perform assigned administrative tasks including, but not limited to scheduling, record keeping and record keeping standards; COA accreditation expectations in anticipation of accreditation inspections; routinely monitor, coach and mentor DCWs on meeting performance expectations.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Must possess a working knowledge of laws, regulations, and methodologies relevant to working with varying degrees of aged and mentally disabled adults including, but not limited to:
- Recipient Rights
- Agency Ethics and the Resident Bill of Rights
- Care Plans
- CPR
- First Aid
- Safety and fire prevention
- Nutrition
- Prevention of communicable diseases
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to respond to emergency situations in a controlled manner
- Internal candidates must have completed all training requirements to attain or be at a Group Home Manger DCW level to meet this requirement.
- Work with professionalism, including empathy, patience, and cultural sensitivity.
- Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license, good driving record and reliable transportation.
- Ability to build a coaching, mentoring, and influencing relationship with staff on performance expectations.
- Willingness to accept administrative assignments and develop a broader understanding of how to appropriately apply laws, regulations, and methodologies to the work.
Education and Experience
Required: High School Diploma or GED and 4 years-experience working with individuals who are aged or developmentally disabled. Management Experience.
Preferred: 60 hours of college credit or Certification from an accredited Community College in a relevant degree program in addition to the experience requirement.
Physical and Other Requirements
- Over an 8-hour period: Prolonged standing, regular or intermittent lifting and reaching above shoulders, pulling and pushing, bending at waist, twisting torso, kneeling, walking.
- Ability to lift, carry, and place up to 50#.
All conditional job offers for Group Home Manager candidates will require a physical examination by an occupational health clinic, which includes a lifting component and TB test, as well as required criminal background checks.