Charge Direct Care Staff

Classification: Regular, Full Time, Hourly
Reports to: Program Director

Essential duties and responsibilities:

  • Hold shift change meetings at the beginning of each shift
  • Responsible for communicating information to Direct Care Staff
  • Stay current on all emails
  • Responsible for completing facility log, shift issues and emailing them out to the respective recipients
  • Responsible for going over appointment schedule and delegation of tasks to Direct Care Staff, Intern Staff, and appointment/resident drivers.
  • Responsible to act in emergencies and make the necessary decisions
  • Responsible to lead by example in the way we treat our residents and talk about other staff
  • Conducts daily residents’ room and facility inspections to ensure residents’ rooms and facility are maintained in accordance with current program standards.
  • Managing Work Study Programs including scheduling, overseeing residents’ participation and execution in areas such as the kitchen, woodshop, lawn care, and more.

Resident Care

  • Responsible for completing resident Intake, discharge and transfer checklist
  • Resident UA’s
  • Resident behavioral documentation
  • Assign resident house chores and work study positions
  • Ensure residents have transportation to and from appointments including proper documentation

Resident Medication

  • Ensure med room and medications are properly stored
  • Order medication refills when needed

Resident Rooms

  • Assign each new resident to a room and provide the Program Director with updated room charts.
  • Ensure each room is adequately supplied with furniture, bedding, and other necessary items
  • Update room assignments based upon census changes and enters changes in the resident database
  • Ensure sufficient quantities of required items are available for distribution to new residents

Resident Discipline:

  • Address resident behavior (i.e. absences, contraband, language, confrontations, etc.)
  • Provide resident discipline – Yellow Level
  • Report resident issues to the appropriate parties

Other

  • Building safety and security
  • Other duties as assigned by Supervisor or Executive Director
  • Maintain a clean driving record

Personnel Supervised:

  • Direct Care Staff Assignments on all shifts
  • Know the Direct Care Staff Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and oversee other Direct Care Staff's continued understanding and compliance with procedures and policies.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Documented 2 years freedom from chemical use problems
  • Exhibit strong commitment to the organization and dedicated to the spiritual restoration of hurting adults and troubled teens.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills.
  • Maintain professional standards of conduct and appearance with co-workers and the public.
  • Ability to manage people and processes to achieve organizational goals.
  • Ability to remain on task while facing frequent interruptions.
  • Excellent organizational skills with ability to bring order to unstructured environments.
  • Assertive individual with pleasant, cordial attitude when working with people.
  • Possession of a valid driver’s license and a clean driving record that will be accepted by this organization’s vehicle insurance carrier