Program Director - Department of Mental Health at NMPRC
3505 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph, MO 64506
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Why you'll love this position:Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center (NMPRC) is a 108-bed forensic inpatient psychiatric hospital located in St. Joseph, Missouri. NMPRC’s vision is to transform the lives of Missourians with mental illness by providing evidence-based treatment in a safe and healing environment. We are dedicated to empowering Missourians to thrive in communities that support mental health, achieve health equity, and promote well-being. NMPRC’s core values are CARE: Compassion, Acceptance, Respect, and Excellence.
What you’ll do:This is a managerial position accountable for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a specific treatment of a Clinical Program. Also accountable for establishing employee policies and procedures and supervising professional staff.
- Development and Annual Revision of the Program Manual and all other resources needed for program implementation. This includes the development of the Program Schedule that satisfies hospital requirements for active treatment during weekday, evening, and weekend hours. The Program Manual is to include a detailed description of each of the Program’s Core Components, with an overview of the behaviors or symptoms addressed, the learning objectives or skills to be developed, and the specific interventions to be utilized by the staff delivering those components to include lesson plans and program materials.
- Ensuring that the program design and implementation demonstrate fidelity to best or evidence-based practice, consistent with the specific treatment’s description in the professional literature and SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices. This includes ensuring that the program is consistent with the values and principles of Recovery Based interventions and Psychosocial Rehabilitation.
- Training all staff assigned to the program in the psychosocial treatment and Program Core Components. At a minimum this will include: (a) initial training to all new employees that is of sufficient length and breadth to ensure that staff are able to implement Core Program Components and meet all competency requirements; (b) periodic training in any newly developed or revised Core Program Component(s), Program Policy, or refinement to the Program Schedule; (c) annual training specific to opportunities in improvement, fidelity of application, etc., as identified in the Annual Evaluation; (d) staff specific training and/or corrective action plans for any individual who fails to meet program competencies.
- Annual evaluation of the program to validate the success of the program’s implementation, its fidelity to evidence-based practice, and overall client progress toward Recovery Goals. At a minimum, this is to include the following metrics: (a) process variables identified by hospital leadership (e.g., restraint hours, percent of clients restrained, active treatment hours/client, rate of group cancellation, discharges, all available help calls); (b) ultimate outcome variables, including: numbers discharged or transferred to less restrictive settings vs. the number transferred to more restrictive settings, re-offense rates, length of community tenure, and the number of clients discharged who are placed in independent or semi-independent living environments, who are engaged in work or post-secondary education, and who are socially connected; and (c) aggregate metrics of client progress and response to treatment, as measured by the metric scorecard, with a particular focus on those metrics identified as the specific to the treatment effects of the psychosocial rehabilitation program.
- Day-to-day operational responsibility for the program, its staff and its clients, including: (a) communication with upper management, peers, team leaders and program staff; (b) performance improvement initiatives specific to the program or that are part of a hospital-wide initiative; (c) participation risk management activities, including those involving daily incidents and injuries; (d) oversight of the program’s budgetary expenses; (e)supervision of the program’s executive team members, and through them, all other staff assigned to the program.
Education and Experience Required: - Bachelor’s degree
- 5 or more years of relevant experience
- 1 year of supervisory experience
We offer great benefits:The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here .
