Director of Health Services

About the Company:

Gateway Longview’s Residential Treatment Services is a therapeutic intervention for youth ages 12-18 and supports them in developing the skills needed to successfully live with their families or in the community.
Gateway Longview’s Educational Services supports Pre-K through 12th grade students who struggle with behavioral, social, and emotional challenges. The goal of the program is to support the needs of individual students as they integrate back to traditional classrooms, or, to support their goal of graduation.

Job Description:

Position Specific Duties/Responsibilities:
Responsible for agency compliance with external and internal regulations regarding required health care of agency clients in the Residential, Foster Care, Supervised Independent Living Program, Day School and Therapeutic Preschool.
Provide preventive health care and health care for disease and injury to the children in agency programs by facilitating necessary nursing, medical, dental, and related care to accomplish this purpose either by the performance of specific skilled nursing procedures, including nursing assessment, or scheduling the necessary care with the appropriate health practitioner.
Work collaboratively as a member of the interdisciplinary team by contributing own area of expertise through effective communication of essential medical information regarding individual clients, conducting in-service education programs, and monitoring health care given by non-medical personnel in order to assure that children’s health care needs are met in the respective agency programs.
Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations and licensing requirements related to health care of clients by scheduling necessary exams, securing necessary diagnostic tests, performing those skills within the area of nursing expertise, and keeping accurate and comprehensive health records of same in accordance with state regulations and agency policy
Manage job functions within established financial limits.
Ensure overall functioning of the Health Services department including supervision and scheduling of the nursing staff, as well as supervision/oversight of health-related personnel. Effectively function as a full practitioner as needed to fulfill duties of department staff.
Ensure continuity of managerial and specialized personnel fully competent in achieving objectives and carrying out responsibilities through effective selection, development, training, evaluator, and motivation of key subordinates.
Complete required reports and documentation in timely manner.
Responsible for medication management and ensure compliance with the medication administration certification of licensed and unlicensed staff.
Ensure and maintain accurate and complete healthcare records for all the youth to include the electronic health record.
Monitor and maintain records related to the 29I managed care requirements for Foster Care, Residential Care and Supervised Independent Living
Provide new employee orientation.
Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Ability to work effectively with youth, families, staff and community contracts from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Must have excellent organizational and communication skills
Ability to deal effectively with youth and/or families
Ability to be flexible and adaptable to change

Qualifications
Registered Nurse and Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
Previous supervisory, psychiatric, and pediatric experience
Must have a valid driver’s license
Ability to have on-call responsibilities