Sudbury House
Mission: The mission of The Guild for Human Services is to educate, encourage and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities so they may achieve their full potential to lead high-quality lives and participate meaningfully in the community.
At The Guild you can join a workforce of creative, dedicated, and passionate employees working every day to enhance the lives of youth and adults with intellectual disabilities and other challenges.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Directly schedule, monitor, supervise, and evaluate all staff within the assigned residence.
- Participate in the hiring, interviewing and disciplinary action processes.
- Provide the individuals who reside in the home an enriched quality of life in their community.
- Ensure that all residential data collection systems, logs and records are up to date.
- Ensure the upkeep of the home by overseeing day to day cleanliness and identifying repairs.
- Oversee the homes food, supply and community activity expenditures, clothing and personal needs expenditures and/or individuals’ personal household accounts.
- Oversee usage, ordering and purchasing of individual household and health related supplies.
- Complete all required reports and assessments using HCSIS (DDS)
- Ensure all incident reports, restraint reports and other documentation is completed related to all residential events and follow up on per Guild policy and the appropriate regulations.
- Administer and record individuals’ medications in compliance with MAP.
- Ensure all staff in the home administer and record individuals’ medications in compliance with MAP.
- Ensure the development of the residential portion of ISP and subsequent reports designed to best meet the needs of each individual and ensure that they are turned in on schedule.
- Ensure the implementation of all ISP objectives and related residential services for individuals who reside in the home.
- Monitor individual’s progress to ensure that goals are appropriate on at least a quarterly basis.
- Ensure that data sheets for ISP objectives are completed according to schedule and are updated as needed.
- Coordinate and take individuals to Doctors’ appointments in collaboration with nursing.
- Monitor all the individuals’ medications and coordinate with the pharmacy (or nursing in school aged programs) if orders are needed.
- Facilitate communication between the home and day program(s) Facilitate communication within the home among staff persons working different shifts.
- Communicate with parents/guardians, family members, stakeholder agency representatives (DDS) on at least a weekly basis regarding individuals, their progress and their needs including sharing staffing information about the home and a schedule of both house and individual activities.
- Be flexible; available to assist other residences.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in special education, psychology, human services or related field required;
- A high degree of effective oral and written communications skills in English
- At least one year of residential management experience and two years direct support experience with developmental disabilities population required.
- Excellent organization and time management skills.
- Reliable transportation to multiple residential locations in Massachusetts
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to demonstrate supervisor and administrative skills
- A valid driver's license
- Must undergo background record check requirements.
- MAP certification or ability to pass MAP within first 90 days.
- Physical and mental capacity to work in stressful situations and de-escalate individuals who have limited cognition and complex needs.
