Review Vacancy
AgencyBattery Park City Authority
TitleTreatment Team Leader (Developmental Disabilities)
Occupational CategoryHealth Care, Human/Social Services
Bargaining UnitM/C - Managerial/Confidential (Unrepresented)
Salary RangeFrom $90931 to $114940 Annually
Minimum Qualifications Candidate must be reachable on the current Civil Service list for Treatment Team Leader Developmental Disabilities
OR
Candidate must have one year of permanent competitive or 55 b/55c service as a Treatment Team Leader Developmental Disabilities and eligible for transfer.
OR
At least one-year permanent service in a title eligible for a 52.6 transfer pursuant to Civil Service Law.
OR
Provisional Appointment:
Eligible for provisional appointment pending examination. To be eligible for provisional appointment, candidates must have served at least one year in the following:
Chief Occupational Therapist, Chief Physical Therapist, Chief Recreation Therapist, Developmental Disabilities Program Specialist 1, Developmental Disabilities Program Specialist 1 (Spanish Language), Developmental Disabilities Program Specialist 2, Developmental Specialist 4, Head Occupational Therapist, Head Physical Therapist, Head Recreation Therapist, Licensed Psychologist, Mental Hygiene Nursing Program Coordinator, Nurse Administrator 1, Nurse Administrator 2, Nutrition Services Administrator 1, Nutrition Services Administrator 2, Social Work Supervisor 1, Speech Language Pathology Audiology Program Coordinator 1, Speech Language Pathology Audiology Program Coordinator 2, and Supervisor Rehabilitation Services.
OR
Candidates must have served at least two years in the following:
Associate Psychologist, Audiologist 1, Audiologist 2, Community Mental Health Nurse, Developmental Assistant 3, Developmental Specialist 2, Developmental Specialist 3, Dietitian 2, Habilitation Specialist 2, Infection Control Nurse, Intermediate Care Facility Program Manager 1, Intermediate Care Facility Program Manager 2, Licensed Master Social Worker 1, Licensed Master Social Worker 2 (and all parenthetic), Mental Hygiene Staff Developmental Specialist 3 (Nursing), Nurse 2 (and all parenthetic), Nurse 3 (and all parenthetic), Nurse Practitioner (and all parenthetic), Physician Assistant, Psychologist 1, Psychologist 2, Rehabilitation Counselor 1, Rehabilitation Counselor 2 (and all parenthetics), Senior Occupational Therapist, Senior Physical Therapist, Senior Recreational Therapist (and all parenthetics), Senior Speech and Hearing Therapist, Social Work Assistant 3, Speech Language Pathologist 1, Speech Language Pathologist 2, Teacher 4 (and all parenthetics), Training Specialist 1 (Nursing), and Utilization Review Coordinator.
* If you are appointed provisionally, you must take the next scheduled civil service examination for this title and your score must be reachable on the resulting eligible list before you can be permanently appointed. If you do not pass the examination or achieve a reachable score, you may not be retained *.
Duties Description The Treatment Team Leader is responsible for ensuring that appropriate, timely and quality services are provided in accordance with all applicable standards and guidelines. The Treatment Team Leader is essential to the safe operation of services and supports while ensuring compliance with State and Federal regulations. The incumbent of this position will be required to make regular visits to sites throughout the DDSO region.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES may include but are not limited to the following:
•Direct supervision of employees
•Enhance monitoring of new employee evaluations and competencies
•Provide training to new employees and new supervisors
•Provide reports as requested by the Director, Deputy Director and DDPSIVs
•Collaboration with the Unions as needed
•Coordination of roll out of the e-scheduler
•Conduct site visits to IRAs within the DDSO region, including during off hours and on weekends
•Ensure appropriate, timely and quality services are provided in accordance with all applicable standards and guidelines.
•Assist management with oversight of staffing resources, including recruitment, retention, developing/implementing balanced schedules, overtime management
•Assist with development of policies and ensure contracts, policies and procedures are followed
•Work closely with the treatment team leaders and DDPSIVs to ensure the health and safety minimums are maintained in the IRAs and Day Habilitation Programs
•Develop, implement and track necessary data
•Participate in a variety of committees
•Coordinate special projects required by management and Central Office
•Assist with coordination of the Employee of the Year and DSP Recognition events
•Administrator on Duty (AOD): function as an AOD on a rotational basis; Coordinate AOD coverage and training; serve as an AOD support during peak hours such as shift transitions which will mitigate/reduce the volume of calls going to the AOD.
•Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
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Additional Comments •If you are employed by state government, you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments have been made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. For more information on PSLF, please visit www.studentAid.gov/publicservice.
•Employees on long term leave can bid on positions but must be able to report to work within fourteen (14) days and be able to perform the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodation (RA). If an employee believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the NYS OPWDD Workforce and Talent Management Central Office (518) 473-4785 or Email at accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.
•Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
•For CSEA positions: Local Bidding Agreements will be honored.
•Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
•In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer dedicated to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
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