Program Director

Description

Envision Unlimited is a full spectrum of care organization serving people with intellectual, developmental, and psychiatric disabilities.

Our mission is to provide quality services that promote choice, independence, and inclusion. Founded in Chicago in 1948, Envision Unlimited has a legacy of evolving care delivered with empathy, every time and everywhere. Our innovative services include community living options; novel day programs; employment, respite and mental health services, and foster care for children with disabilities.

Beyond our day-to-day efforts supporting members and their caregivers in Illinois, we are advocates, and Envision Unlimited's impact is far-reaching. Through outreach, evaluation, and service planning, we help thousands of people become part of the community, transition to safe homes, and access support services so they can live their lives to their greatest potential.

Summary: Responsible for the overall management and facilitation of all aspects of the program including habilitation activities, personnel issues, building needs, and administrative support functions. Responsible for the program's overall health and safety standards. Establish and maintain member-driven, community/CILA-focused programming. This CDS program will be less traditionally center-based and will sometimes share space at other CDS centers, work from the CILAs, and focus on the community.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Interview, hire and train employees, evaluate performance, and recommend changes in employee status. Ensure disciplinary action is implemented, as appropriate, in a fair and consistent manner in accordance with agency policies and procedures. Ensure members participate in the interviewing/hiring of employees.
• Ensure appropriate billing is entered into Quantum/other HER including but not limited to 31U, 31C, 37U, etc.
• Monitor facility activities to ensure compliance with all relevant rules, regulations, and service contracts including, but not limited to, Agency policies, CQL requirements, DHS Rules [i.e., 119, 120, 50, 51], DOL & OSHA regulations, and etc.
• Provide guidance, structure, support, and training to employees. Coordinate internal & external staff training, ensuring all required training is completed and meets agency and governmental requirements.
• Ensure time and attendance is completed in an accurate/timely fashion including approval of benefit time, approval of time cards and use of the point system.
• Coordinate/approve scheduling of activities of all personnel (i.e., use of benefit time, in-service training, community outings, and etc.), ensuring adequate coverage availability for all functions of the program. Monitor staffing pattern on a daily basis, substituting for and/or moving staff to fill needs caused by emergency absence.
• Ensure a member driven schedule, including evening and weekend activities.
• Ensure continuation of specialized programming including Neighbors, Adventures and Expeditions.
• Ensure member opportunities to participate in agency/department – wide events such as, but not limited to:
• Stewardship
• Summer of Cycling
• Hunger Heroes
• Special Olympics
• Cookie Exchange
• Ensure program time is split between time spent at the CILA, time spent in Neighbors, time spent at CDS centers, time spent in the greater Chicagoland community and time spent in employment.
• Chair managerial and all staff meetings, communicating pertinent information and maintaining documentation of such. Ensure information from managerial meetings is shared and documented with direct contact staff and members (as appropriate) via unit and member meetings.
• Develop strong community resources/partnerships.
• Maintain projected levels of enrollment and manage the flow of members into the program and among units. Monitor the use of ancillary and specialized services. Oversee the timely and accurate completion of all Intake and Community Resources related reports and documents.
• Ensure accurate and complete attendance records are maintained in Quantum. Be sure corrections are made in a timely manner.
• Maintain a functioning member council
• Working closely with CLS, review the quality of each member’s PCP, monitoring the timely completion of staffing, Implementation Strategies, assessments, Monthly Summaries, referrals for services, and other pertinent services and documents. Periodically attend staffing. Ensure behavior programs are written properly and necessary approvals are obtained. Serve as resource person to the QIDP’s providing coaching and input as needed and assisting in resolving unusual case management issues.
• Monitor and integrate the activities of consultants and other ancillary services to meet progr