Senior Administrator on Duty

The Senior Administrator on Duty (AOD) is responsible for monitoring safety and procedures within the units and overall facilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees staffing including directing and assigning work and ensuring ratios are met.
• Ensures effective quality of care is provided including promoting and implementing healthy well-being by ensuring a clean, safe environment; ensures the dorms are kept in accordance with standards required by regulatory agencies.
• Monitors facility for safety and security including but not limited to staff and building checks, checks within each dorm, and addresses any security breaches. Documents and reports breaches and response taken. Monitors and assesses youth transitions throughout facility.
• Identifies and communicates areas of risk including but not limited to transition of youth, ratios, restraints, safety plans and injuries. Consults with management regarding risk reporting protocols, safety planning, follow up plans, and reducing future risk and program outcomes data.
• Coordinates with fellow shift leaders to plan for efficient continuous operations of facility security staffing and program implementation.
• Ensures all staff are properly conducting searches of youth facility.
• Coordinates with all facility department including medical, clinical, education, and case management staff to ensure health, safety, and well-being of youth.
• Partners with facility and custodial maintenance staff to ensure maintenance of building at all times.
• Provides on-call administrative oversight.
• Identify problematic behavior threats & social patterns of clients that threaten programming integrity.
• Ensure all intakes of youth are completed per protocol and all documentation ahs been completed appropriately.
• Responds pro-actively and provides managerial direction & planning to shift supervisors to ensure resident safety and security concerns of program compliance, crisis and conflict resolution.
• The Woodfield Program Manager is a member of the Woodfield Leadership Team and must attend leadership Team meetings and report client community status and coordinate security concerns & activities with other department members of management team.
• Responsible for coordinating shift safety related, all emergency activities related to the Woodfield Detention Center campus, such as fire, power failure, etc.
• Assures the various specialized security, central, daily & post logs are maintained daily in accordance to regulations, program policies, practices & procedures and that all management team notifications are carried out.
• Adheres to agency policies and procedures; follows and supports agency mission, vision and values including participating in internal surveys and data collection for continuous improvement initiatives.
• This position will comply will all federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, SCOC, and COA.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Requirements

• Minimum associate's degree required. Experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience working with high-risk youth in residential treatment setting.
• Supervisory experience required; 1-2 years minimum.
• Must maintain First Aid/CPR and TCI train the trainer certification.
• Must have a valid driver's license and clean driving record. Travel required.
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule with variable hours including day, evening, weekend, holiday and subject to on call hours.
• Require a valid driver's license and reliable vehicle. Travel is required. Ability to coordinate and plan travel for visits and appointments in an efficient manner.
• Ability to work with an economically and culturally diverse population.
• Skills: demonstrated communication skills, both oral and written, including attention to detail; capable of working in a stressful environment; ability to become TCI, First/Aid CPR certified.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Together for Youth is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment where diversity is valued and recognized as a source of strength and enrichment. We seek to attract talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures.

As a federal contractor, Together for Youth will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)