Program Manager Jobs in Jonesboro, AR (NOW HIRING)

Responsibilities:

Provides consultation, supervision, in-service training, pre-service training, and related support services to the staff of the RTC.

Makes regular in-home visits for observation and training.

Assists youth home staff with youth intake, individual treatment plans, and program development.

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

Assists Director of the TC 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’s professional evaluation 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 Director for the Treatment Center with evaluation 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.

Make presentations and interprets agency programs at professional conferences and to community agencies, and organizations within the geographical area under their supervision.

Develops and administers an annual service delivery plan for youth homes and provides detailed documentation of all activities.

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

Provides 24-hour emergency consultation to youth homes.

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

Provides other related functions as assigned.

Qualifications:

Degree from an accredited University, preferred, but experience may substitute for some education; High school diploma required.

Proven ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress, fast paced position with minimal amount of supervision.

TFM Certification required.

Minimum of three years’ experience working with youth is preferred.

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.

Flu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

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)