New Horizons Ranch & Center, Inc.
Administrator-Audrey Grace House
Abilene, TX - Full Time
The Audrey Grace House (AGH) Administrator works jointly with the Clinical Director to assess, coordinate, and monitor the New Horizons’ child-care program. In addition, the Administrator oversees the entire direct care staff and ensures the daily care and treatment of the children. All New Horizons’ Staff are expected to study, practice and operate within the New Horizons’ Philosophy of Keeping Kids First. Keeping Kids First requires that every decision and action be motivated by and geared toward meeting the highest need of the individual kid. New Horizons will not tolerate anyone who is not committed to keeping kids safe from abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Qualifications
Working Conditions
Mixed indoor and outdoor environment, involving continuous interaction with children, requiring flexible hours.
Physical Requirements
Must be able to fulfill the physical requirements of the position including considerable walking, good hearing to assess situations quickly and respond appropriately, the ability to perform CPR and First Aid, and be able to respond when a child is a danger to their self or others including performing physical restraints.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure that delivery of services for all clinical treatment, care and services is consistent with New Horizons’ policies, philosophy, and procedures, and in accordance with all applicable regulations and established policies, programming, and budget.
- Supports facility personnel.
- Interviews, orients, evaluates, trains and supervises program staff.
- Ensures the provision of clinical services for kids in care.
- Monitors services provided for individuals, groups and families.
- Leads the treatment team in the development and implementation of an individualized treatment plan for each child in care.
- Ensures that relevant information is provided to direct care staff to allow appropriate therapeutic interventions.
- Ensures regulatory compliance by educating staff on childcare standards.
- Ensures all staff are up to date with state and contract required training.
- Establishes and maintains rapport with monitoring agents and acts as the point person for investigations/inspections.
- Assists therapists with planning discharges and coordinating placements.
- Ensures that youth live in a safe environment and are supervised according to New Horizons’ policies and philosophy, licensing and contractual standards by managing the daily operations of the program.
- Exhibits professionalism and positive role modeling for children in care, staff, volunteers, contractual staff, outside visitors, and the community.
- Maintains confidentiality of children’s and staff’s protected health information and complies with the HIPAA privacy rule.
- Continues own professional growth and development and manages staff to maintain or improve their individual competency.
- Ensures that required documentation and paperwork is completed according to New Horizons’ and state mandated standards and requirements.
- Provides 24 hour a day, on-call coverage.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree preferred, not required.
- Possess a thorough working knowledge of residential child-care operations, all related support functions and all required standards for certification and licenses.
- Be a Licensed Child-Care Administrator or eligible to become one.
- Possess a minimum of five (5) years in residential child-care treatment with direct responsibility for supervision and development of direct child-care Staff, with emphasis on the implementation of child-care programs and the management and coordination of direct care Staff.
- Demonstrate strong leadership abilities, effective oral and written communication skills, organizational abilities, and supervisory abilities.
- Possess extensive prior experience that demonstrates their cognitive ability to assist the child in difficult, crisis and demanding times.
- Work under the direct supervision of the Chief Operating Officer with a wide degree of discretion and independent judgment.
Working Conditions
Mixed indoor and outdoor environment, involving continuous interaction with children, requiring flexible hours.
Physical Requirements
Must be able to fulfill the physical requirements of the position including considerable walking, good hearing to assess situations quickly and respond appropriately, the ability to perform CPR and First Aid, and be able to respond when a child is a danger to their self or others including performing physical restraints.
About New Horizons Ranch & Center, Inc.:
- Established in 1971, New Horizons assists kids and families throughout Texas in our residential treatment facilities, therapeutic foster homes, and youth and family counseling programs.
- New Horizons' team strives to Keep Kids First while providing a safe, therapeutic and loving environment for kids and adolescents in order to help our kids and families succeed.
- Audrey Grace House is a residential treatment center for children, ages 5 - 17, suffering from emotional, behavioral, and attachment or relationship issues. The home accommodates 40 children and length of stay usually lasts 9 to 12 months.
- For more information, visit www.newhorizonsinc.com
