STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES


CLASSIFICATION:  RESIDENT SERVICES SUPERVISOR

 

Class Code:  7675-25                                       Date Established:  05-27-94           

 

Occupational Code:  3-2-3                               Date of Last Revision:  12-28-01

 

BASIC PURPOSE:  Develops and implements individual service plans and coordinates multi-disciplinary care teams for mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or geriatric residents of a state institution or facility.

 

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

·        Develops individual service plans for residents in a variety of program areas including medical, rehabilitative, dietary, resident/family and social services.

 

·        Coordinates and evaluates multi-disciplinary care team activities for quality assurance compliance to standards and regulations.

 

·        Ensures that all professional, clerical and record keeping functions are completed as they relate to treatment plan design and implementation.

 

·        Evaluates the delivery of services and therapies to residents in one or more program sites.

 

·        Provides consultation in assuring a safe therapeutic rehabilitative environment.

 

·        Assists in developing an institutional structure that is in compliance with state statutes and standards for accreditation.

 

·        Participates in Unit In-service Education Programs and serves on agency committees.

 

·        Schedules evaluations of service team members in the various disciplines.

 

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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:

 

Skill:  Requires skill in analyzing and interpreting data, policy and procedures OR in using equipment in order to arrive at logical conclusions or recommendations.

 

Knowledge:  Requires logical or scientific expertise to resolve problems of a specialized or professional nature in a wide range of applications.

 

Impact:  Requires responsibility for achieving direct service objectives by assessing agency service needs and making preliminary recommendations for the development of alternative short-term program policies or procedures.  Errors at this level result in incomplete assessments or misleading recommendations causing a disruption of agency programs or policies.

 

Supervision:  Requires direct supervision of programs or of employees doing work which differs from the supervisor, including disciplining employees, solving personnel problems, recommending hiring and terminating employees, and developing work methods.  The supervisor in this position manages a working unit or section with responsibility for employee performance appraisal.

 

Working Conditions:  Requires performing regular job functions in a controlled environment with minimal exposure to disagreeable job elements and little risk of hazard to physical or mental health.

 

 

 

Physical Demands:  Requires light work, including continuous walking or operating simple equipment for extended periods of time as well as occasional strenuous activities such as reaching or bending.

 

Communication:  Requires reviewing summaries and reports and making management level decisions to solve problems or to achieve work objectives as well as articulating and expressing those solutions and goals.  This level also requires formal presentations of solutions and goals to employees and the general public to increase the responsiveness of the agency toward the demands of its client system.

 

Complexity:  Requires coordinating a combination of diverse job functions in order to integrate professional and technical agency goals.  This level also requires considerable judgment to implement a sequence of operations or actions.

 

Independent Action:  Requires independent judgment in planning and evaluating work procedures and in supervising the development of professional, technical and managerial standards under administrative direction and according to broad departmental guidelines.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Education:  Master's degree from a recognized college or university with a major study in social services, public health, nursing or a closely related human service field.  Each additional year of approved formal education may be substituted for one year of required work experience.

 

Experience:  Four years' clinical experience working with mentally or physically disabled individuals, two years of which must have been in a supervisory, administrative, coordinating or equivalent position.  Each additional year of approved work experience may be substituted for one year of required formal education at the graduate level only.

 

License/Certification:  None required.

 

RECOMMENDED WORK TRAITS:  Knowledge of the problems of mentally and physically disabled individuals.  Knowledge of the process of team planning.  Knowledge of the care, treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill.  Knowledge of the medical services necessary for treatment of geriatric patients.  Skill in communicating effectively.  Ability to exercise mature and sound judgment in planning and organizing programming connected with service plans.  Ability to detect and define problem areas and design procedural steps to correct these areas.  Ability to manage programs and supervise both professionals and nonprofessionals.  Ability to speak effectively before groups.  Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals, agencies and the community.  Must be willing to maintain appearance appropriate to assigned duties and responsibilities as determined by the agency appointing authority.

 

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT:  This class specification is descriptive of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this class title.

 


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