Summary of Position
The AES Floor Supervisor is responsible for overseeing Direct Support Staff and providing support to individuals served to ensure quality service delivery and program engagement.
Essential Job Functions
- Provides direct supervision to staff who are providing pre-vocational training, daily living skills, social skills and community engagement activities to individuals served in day habilitation setting.
- Reviews and signs incident reports, case notes and other documents related to individuals served. Collaborates with Case Management team to determine action steps needed for follow up.
- Responsible for checking program books weekly to ensure that staff are following person centered plans and accurately collecting data.
- Maintains age appropriate activities, daily schedule and monthly calendar for program.
- Demonstrate respect of individual’s dignity and human rights through appropriate voice tone, mannerisms and interactions and physical management; includes awareness and practice of confidentiality policies and procedures.
- Responsible for observation, accurate recording, data collection, and progress reporting on individuals served. Submits data to Case Manager (or other designee) in a timely manner.
- Responsible for coordinating and scheduling community outings and volunteer activities.
- Maintains records of how many outings and hours volunteered.
- Reporting vehicle issues, ensure staff training for drivers, reviewing mileage books, and handling gas receipts.
- Responsible for corrective action process and staff performance evaluations.
- Assist in interview process for Direct Support position.
- Training and documentation for Direct Support Staff training.
- Responsible for maintaining the daily cleanliness, orderliness and maintenance of program areas, supplies and training materials.
- Responsible for reporting immediately if witness to any inappropriateness of staff towards or with individuals served.
- Demonstrates alertness to individual’s appropriate and inappropriate behavior and demonstrates ability to assist Direct Support Staff with addressing the behaviors according to the individual’s habilitation plan.
- Responsible for maintaining accurate and timely records of employee attendance.
- Responsible for maintaining JDT monthly attendance sheets for individuals served.
- Arrives at work at the scheduled time and follows proper procedure for calling in or requesting days off and works required days.
- Participates in job related training offered at Easter Seals Nevada and other local training sites in an effort to increase skills and improve current skills.
- Presents self in a professional and appropriate manner toward client-trainees, co-workers, parents and others in the industry; promotes a positive, professional image.
- Shows initiative and asks for direction and/or clarification when needed.
- Any other program related duties assigned by the ADS Director (or Director’s designee), Vice President of Programs or President/CEO.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work on a daily basis with people that may have severe, profound and/or multiple disabilities.
- Ability to handle pressure in a positive manner;
- Willingness to participate in and actively increase knowledge in progressive services to people with disabilities;
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to write and provide (including, but not limited to): accurate client-trainee information; incident reports, case notes and documentation, production information, etc.
- Demonstrates initiative and creativity in working with clients.
- Ability to read and understand client information, instructions, case notes, incident reports, manuals, etc.
- Have and maintain current CPR and First Aid certification. Ability to perform CPR and/or First Aid.
- Ability to visually observe and hear client-trainees.
- Ability to perform physical and verbal intervention of individuals served, including, but not limited to: blocking or moving away from physical behaviors; directing or redirecting individuals when behaviors warrant physical and/or verbal intervention, etc.
- Ability to physically assist individuals in the restroom (toileting activities), including the ability to physically assist individuals on/off toilet.
- Ability to physically assist individuals in/out of vehicles; ability to physically assist individuals in getting in/out of chairs, wheelchairs or other assistive devices, etc.
- For staff who are or become drivers of ESN vehicles:
o Ability to drive passenger vans, including 15 passenger and handicap
accessible vans.
o Must have and maintain current Nevada driver’s license
o Must have and maintain a good driving record
Minimum Required Education and Experience
- Minimum of six months experience in related field or related life experience
Work Environment
Ability to be out in Las Vegas area outdoor weather conditions, including extreme heat, extreme cold, wind, poor air quality and wet or humid conditions, etc.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to handle or feel objects, tools or controls, frequently talk or hear, reach with hands, lift arms above and below shoulder level, occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 5 pounds. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs. On regular occasions lift and/or move up to 50lbs and can request assistance if needed. Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision.