Health and Wellness Director

The Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center is seeking a Health and Wellness Director to work at our location in Simpsonville, KY. A great opportunity with terrific benefits and competitive compensation.

JOB SUMMARY: Provides daily management and oversight of the Health and Wellness Center. Directs wellness staff engaged in providing health services, support and education for all students.

DUTIES:
• Supervises the health and wellness department and assigned staff.
• Develops agreement of understanding with local health agencies.
• Participate in the file review process ensuring all applicant’s files are processed within 30 calendar days from receipt by center.
• Comply with all Disability directives.
• Develop and implement a process for ensuring applicants/students with disabilities who request accommodation, indicate they may need accommodation, and/or provide documentation of a disability are engaged in an interactive process to consider/determine the functional limitations resulting from their disability and the potential accommodations that would allow them to participate in the Job Corps program.
• Provides an overview of health services to new students by a member of the health services staff during the Career Preparation Period.
• Ensures the conduct and documentation of a cursory health evaluation and a medical history within 48 hours of arrival on center. The medical history shall be documented on the Job Corps Health History Form.
• Ensures a complete entrance physical examination and a review of the medical history is documented within 14 days of a student’s arrival.
• Ensure all students are immunized as directed by the Office of Job Corps.
• Develop and implement procedures for the daily walk-in clinic outside of the training hours for students to receive routine health care.
• Provide for an inpatient unit (during office hours) for minor conditions, such as respiratory infections or flu symptoms.
• Provide an appointment system for follow-up during the training day for treatment of chronic, urgent, and other conditions within the capabilities of center health professionals.
• Provide for access to prescription medications for identified students and offer an off-center specialist referral system.
• Administer, purchase, stock store and dispose of prescription, and nonprescription medications per state and federal laws.
• Ensures a 24-hour emergency-care system, to include on-center CPR and first aid and written referral plan or agreement for off-center medical, oral health, mental health, substance use, and inpatient care.
• Ensures the center provides basic dental services..
• Ensures the centers provides basic mental-health services to enable early identification and diagnosis of mental-health problems, basic mental-health care, and mental-health promotion, prevention, and education designed to help students overcome barriers to employability.
• Ensures adequacy of crisis intervention, as needed. In the event of a mental health emergency, the Center Mental-Health Consultant or the center physician shall conduct a mental health evaluation as soon as possible, and when necessary, refer the student for psychiatric care.
• Provide students with information and skills that will allow them to make appropriate choices regarding their health care needs, and to demonstrate acceptable workplace behavior that will enhance their opportunity for employment.
• Establish provisions of basic TEAP services with emphasis on prevention, education, identification of substance use problems, relapse prevention, and helping students overcome barriers to employability.
• Ensures new and readmitted students are tested within 48 hours of arrival on center. Students who tested positive on entrance shall be retested between the 37th and 40th day after arrival on center.
• Ensures all students participating in organized contact or rigorous sports (e.g., football, basketball, and running) are medically cleared by a health professional prior to participating.
• Implements a program to prevent the onset of tobacco use and to promote tobacco-free environments and individuals.
• Develops and implements a family planning program shall be provided to all students on a voluntary basis. At a minimum, this program shall include counseling, health promotion activities, and medical services, including birth control.
• Provides CPR, first aid, AIDS and Non-Health Standing Orders training to all appropriate staff.
• Tests students for HIV infection.
• Establish a program for sexual assault prevention, counseling, treatment, and follow-up care.
• Provide students with an environment that supports healthy eating and active lifestyles and provide students with education and experiences that promote lifelong health and physical well-being.
• Ensure that proper authorizations are obtained prior to delivery of health services to students. Each student shall have a signed Informed Consent to Receive Mental Health and Wellness Treatment form in the student health record by the time the student arrives on center.
• Assist students in seeking third-party health insurance coverage that will be available should the student have medical needs or costs beyond the basic health services provided by the center.
• Ensures necessary equipment and supplies for routine and emergency delivery of basic medical, dental, and mental health services.
• Operates within established budgets.
• Ensures all center health staff and providers follow accepted professional standards of care and are subject to prevailing state laws.
• Comply with all state and federal regulations regarding controlled medications. Purchase, store, and administer all controlled substances in accordance with the regulation at 21 CFR Part 1300. Maintain a controlled medication log.
• Complete the appropriate OWCP form(s) whenever a student is injured, develops an occupationally related illness, or dies while in the performance of duty.
• Ensures all health-care guidelines shall be approved and signed annually by the center physician, Center Mental Health Consultant, or center dentist, as appropriate.
• Establishes procedures and conducts periodic self-evaluation and audits to ensure integrity, accountability, and prevention of fraud and program abuse. Seeks feedback from students, employ mechanisms to document quality of care provided, and document quality improvement activities.
• Facilitate monthly meetings between the Center Director, the center physician, and Center Mental Health Consultant to discuss clinical and organizational issues.
• Ensure that require reports are submitted in compliance with the PRH and the center’s reports control system.
• Establishes and implements systems to ensure performance is accurately tracked and reported and necessary corrective action is taken to achieve the performance outcome goals and quality standards established by the National Director of Job Corps.
• Conducts and documents regularly scheduled management meetings to provide direction, communicate progress, and share information.
• Evaluates personnel under his/her management and makes recommendations regarding disciplinary actions, promotions, and/or merit increases.
• Assists counselors and instructors on presenting health education program information.
• Establishes and monitors weight improvement programs.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Registered Nurse. Minimum of an Associate’s degree in nursing. Active, unrestricted license to practice in state where center is located. Current CPR/First Aid certification. Valid state driver license. Current BLS/CPR certification. One-year management experience. Must demonstrate the ability to handle several projects simultaneously. Demonstrate time management, task allocation and priority assignment organization. Must present information both clearly and concisely.