Program Director- Quality Parenting Center at The Village for Families and Children in Manchester, Connecticut

Job Description:

The Village for Families and Children

Job Tracking ID: Job Tracking ID: 512620-889343
Job Location: Manchester, CT
Job Level: Job Level: Any
Level of Education: Masters Degree
Job Type: Full-Time/Regular
Years of Experience: Years of Experience: 2 - 5 Years
Starting Date: Starting Date: ASAP
Salary: Salary: 70,000
Work Hours: Work Hours: Full time 40 hours

Job Description

Our Mission:

The Village was one of the first agencies in the country to provide homes for neglected children. Today, we continue to achieve our mission “to build a community of strong, healthy families who protect and nurture children” by providing a full range of behavioral health, early childhood and youth development, substance use treatment and support services for children, adults and families in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut region. Recently nominated as a Top Workplace for 2024: Learn what it is like to be a Village employee: https://thevillage.org/careers/

Starting annual salary $70,000 commensurate with experience

Take a look at some of the benefits of working at the Village!

*403b matching - 2% Employer annual contribution, 3% bi-weekly match
*HSA Employer Contribution
*Continuing Education Units
*Professional License Reimbursement
*Tuition Reimbursement
*Perks at Work: discounts on everyday services and goods

https://thevillage.org/our-benefits/

QPC:

Program director is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Quality Parenting Center (QPC). The QPC director will serve as an expert and manage the implementation of the Visit Coaching Model which includes ensuring staff are trained and are utilizing model components with fidelity. The QPC Director will provide oversight to Parent Coach Supervisor and Transportation Case Aide Supervisor. Other duties include monitoring compliance with all program requirements, facilitating team meetings, hiring, maintaining compliance with Quality Assurance expectations, completes all required programmatic reports according to funder and agency.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Responsible for the supervision of program staff and others as assigned.
2. Responsible for hiring, training and performance management of assigned programs.
3. Maintains close working relationships with stakeholders and donors.
4. Responsible for admissions and overall program leadership and performance.
5. Ensure safe, trauma-informed programming for clients with adherence to best practices and required program models.
6. Responsible for quality assurance, utilization review, public relations, and maintaining license and accreditation.
7. Continuously monitors programs for improved service delivery.
8. Communicates, coordinates, and collaborates with collateral agencies, including DCF, school systems, etc.
9. Assists in developing yearly budget, control and monitoring of budget performance.
10. Provides emergency outreach and support to programs.
11. Provides on-site availability to each program.
12. Promotes a positive milieu with a focus on providing and supporting learning activities for staff that include ongoing training, group and individual supervision and timely objective feedback on performance.

Experience and Skills

Education requirement

• Master of Social Work or master’s related field
• Clinical licensed preferred with minimum of 3 years supervisory experience working with families with Child Protection involvement.
• Personal Characteristics: Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills required. Must be a good team player and leader, is flexible in approach to job and others, insightful, self-reflecting and aware of impact on others, patient and empathic, shows good judgment in pressured situations.
• Cultural Competency: Familiarity, sensitivity, and/or experience working with diverse populations. Sensitivity to the impact of race, gender, sexuality, culture, language, and spirituality on mental health treatment.
• Physical abilities: Physically able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodations. These essential functions include, but are not limited to, the abilities to function safely in a therapeutic situation.

The Village for Families and Children is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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