People With Developmental Disabilities, Office for
Location
Schenectady, NY | United States
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
COMPETITIVE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Promotion: Possession of a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State; a bachelor’s degree in nursing; and one year of service as a Registered Nurse Supervisor 1.
REASSIGNMENT QUALIFICATIONS:
Current Office for People with Developmental Disabilities employees with one year of permanent, contingent permanent, or 55 B/C service as a Director Nursing 1 (Developmental Disabilities). If you have less than one year, you must be currently reachable on the eligible list.
TRANSFER QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates must have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/c status in the posted title and be eligible for lateral transfer; OR be eligible to transfer via Section 70.1, 70.4, or 52.6 of Civil Service Law. The transfer cannot be a second consecutive transfer resulting in an advancement of more than two salary grades. To determine if your current Civil Service title is eligible for transfer to this title, visit the Career Mobility GOT-IT website:
NON-COMPETITIVE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Possession of a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State; a bachelor’s degree in nursing; and two years of post-licensure professional clinical nursing experience. One year of the experience must have been at a supervisory level.*
- A master's degree in nursing can substitute for one year of non-supervisory post-licensure clinical nursing experience.
Non-Competitive Promotion (NCP):
NOTE: If three or fewer qualified and interested promotional candidates respond to this notice, the agency may, at is discretion, nominate a qualified employee for non-competitive promotion under the provisions of Section 52.7 of the Civil Service Law. To qualify, you must be a current OPWDD employee and have one year of service as a Registered Nurse Supervisor 1.
Duties Description
- Posted hiring rate includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for M/C M-1 ($88,283), an Increased Hiring Rate ($15,539), Geographic Pay Differential ($20,000). The posted job rate is the sum of the statutory job rate ($111,5592), Geographic Pay Differential ($20,000).
DUTIES:
The Director Nursing 1 (DD) is responsible for the clinical oversight and supervision of the nursing staff at Capital District DDSO and has a direct impact on the quality of nursing and health care provided to individuals receiving services from OPWDD. Additionally, during the months of June, July, and August ensures the clinical services needed for the Camp Wilton Summer Program are coordinated and provided.
The primary role of this position is to assure that guidance and practices provided to state operated and voluntary providers ensures quality care and compliance with all laws, regulations (including compliance with laws, regulations with NYS Department of Health, Center for Medicaid Services, OSHA, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, NYS Education Department and the Center for Disease Control), procedures and standards regarding health care services; provide clinical insight needed in the coordination and development of treatment care plans and programs; maintain and collect data for evaluations and studies to determine the most effective way of delivering services and evaluating the success of treatment; participate with various planning and program development committees, and provide in-service training. The responsibilities of this position will include:
- Maintains oversight of the Nursing Department and directly supervises the nurse administrators and indirectly supervises RNs, LPNs, CMHNs, and agency nurses. Prepares and delivers performance evaluations for direct reports. Conducts supervisory meetings and other duties as needed.
- Shows strong interpersonal skills including leadership, effective communication (both oral and in writing) when working with others and in groups and provides relevant input and feedback.
- Assists Deputy Director with managing the staffing of the department and coordinates with Human Resources in recruitment, hiring, and training.
- Assist nursing department with Electronic Health Records utilization/documentation and trainings.
- Oversight of pharmacy reviews.
- Oversight of nursing department incident reporting and follow up.
- Conducts on-site visits to Capital District IRAs, Day Habs and Adirondack Clinic.
- Maintains oversight of meetings with Treatment Teams to discuss and coordinate individual treatment plans and programs. Follows up to ensure that treatment planning and service delivery are accomplished and documented. Ensures quality care and compliance with all laws, regulations, procedures, and standards regarding health care services to approximately 400 consumers.
- Participates in and supervises the development of Plans of Corrective Action related to nursing services for residential and day program sites as assigned.
- This position participates in a bi-weekly Community of Practice with the Statewide Director of Nursing and Health Services. During this meeting the NPCs are updated and informed about any changes needed in the Nursing program for the organization. This information is distributed to Capital District’s management, clinic medical staff and nurses.
- Supports the distribution and sharing of resource information, policy/regulatory updates among nursing staff to ensure all are informed and up-to date on any changes occurring.
- Assists Statewide Director of Nursing and Health Services and other NPCs throughout the state with developing relevant training curriculums that can be utilized across the state to support care to individuals and to ensure compliance with regulations.
- Provides direction, guidance, and training to direct care staff, management, clinic medical staff, and families related to relevant nursing care issues.
- Oversight of Agency nursing contracts/scheduling, expenditures and ensuring the level of services provided by agency nursing is consistent with the standards and practices of OPWDD.
- This role in collaboration with the Infection Control Nurse, provides oversight, direction and policy development as needed or requested and ensures compliance in the infection control aspect of health care for the individuals served (e.g. PPD, PPE Guidance documents in the control of communicable disease and Pandemic planning).
- Supervises the maintenance of medical and other records and files pertinent to the treatment and care of service recipients and supervises the development of data from records and files for various evaluations or studies to determine the most effective way of delivering services and evaluating the success of the treatment.
- Participates with planning and program development committees as assigned.
- Demonstrates the ability to collect and review information and present salient points in a clear and concise manner to others.
- Assist nursing department with Electronic Health Records utilization and trainings.
- Prioritize tasks that assure the best use of resources and that department outcomes are achieved.
- Able to utilize Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and other relevant IT programs to support the work of the clinical team.
- Participates on the Administrator on Duty (AOD) rotation.
- Other duties as assigned.
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Additional Comments
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). HELPS Program titles may be filled via a non-competitive appointment. This means that you do not need to take an exam to qualify, but you do need to meet the minimum qualifications of the title.
If you are hired under the HELPS Program, you will be first be appointed as a temporary employee. In May 2024, if you are performing successfully in the position, your appointment will be changed from temporary to permanent non-competitive. Once you are in permanent status, your official probationary period will begin and you may take any promotion exam for which you are qualified.
At a future date (within one year of permanent appointment), employees hired under NY HELPS are expected to have their permanent non-competitive employment status converted to permanent competitive status. You will not have to take an exam to gain permanent competitive status.
- Family and household member relationships: OPWDD policy may impact eligibility for this position. Employees are responsible for recognizing the relationship and not posting for positions where it would be a concern. Before you apply read Section 120.27 of the Region 3 Policy Manual. Please e-mail [email protected] if you have you need help determining if this policy applies to you.
- CAPA: Must be cleared by the NYS Central Register for Child Abuse and Maltreatment, if position requires working with minors and not previously cleared.
- If you are employed by state government, you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments have been made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. For more information on PSLF, please visit
- Employees on long term leave can bid on positions but must be able to report to work within fourteen (14) days and be able to perform the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodation (RA). If an employee believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the NYS OPWDD Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or e-mail at [email protected] to obtain information and RA forms.
- For CSEA positions: Local Bidding Agreements, and previously approved vacation/holiday time will be honored in the new assignment.
- Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
- In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
- OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
- OPWDD is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
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