Review Vacancy
AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for
TitleDevelopmental Disabilities Operations Director 1
Occupational CategoryAdministrative or General Management
Bargaining UnitM/C - Managerial/Confidential (Unrepresented)
Salary RangeFrom $123793 to $156224 Annually
Duties Description The Incident Management Unit Director will provide direction and oversight through incident management, reporting functions, policy directives and guidance, and compliance-based performance across the state. Duties include but are not limited to:
- Oversee the 24/7 off-hours and day-to-day operations of OPWDD's statewide Incident Management Unit (IMU) and the critical incident management functions for approximately 16,000 serious incidents submitted to them by approximately 600 agencies a year.
- Direct and provide supervision to all relevant personnel functions for the Statewide Compliance Officers of the IMU including Regional and Incident Compliance Officers.
- Collaborate with DQI's Data Analysis and Evaluation unit (DAEU) in the refinement and further development of OPWDD's Incident Review and Management Application (IRMA) database to improve the quality of data related to the incident management process, to support initiatives of the Commissioner and to meet evolving needs of the OPWDD Central Office provider community, and the NYS Justice Center. IMU receives notification and conduct reviews of incidents reported into IRMA.
- Act as a liaison and provide trainings to outside agencies, stakeholders, provider associations, and agency staff as the IMU subject matter expert.
- Provide final oversight review of reportable incidents of abuse/neglect and significant incidents reported in the OPWDD service system.
- Supervise a unit that serves overnight rotations in conjunction with the Assistant Director and Statewide Compliance Officers due to the implementation of the Protection for People with Special Needs Act. The IMU provides an on-call system on a 24/7 basis to meet the needs of the providers in the system as well as those of the NYS Justice Center for Protection of People with Special Needs. This position requires availability 24/7 as needed to provide technical assistance and oversight to staff.
- This position will analyze data for system-wide threats to individuals' health and safety. This information will be communicated to OPWDD leadership.
- Initiate the formulation of new policies and ensure implementation.
- Coordinate and collaborate with other DQI Units. Work closely with higher level staff to coordinate major programs and functional assignments.
- Handle sensitive and complex program issues and act as a high level technical consultant.
- Review and respond to reports from the New York State Justice Center.
- Respond to audits by the NYS Justice Center in the areas of significant incidents and corrective action plans.
- Responsible to ensure implementation and oversight of statements of deficiencies related to incident management.
- Participates in the Commissioner's Statewide Mortality Review process. Provides supervision to two Registered Nurses who function to review deaths in the OPWDD system and complete tasks required for the Statewide Mortality Review process.
- Leads the Statewide Committee on Incident Review (SCIR).
- Participates in workgroups with The Justice Center related to Quality improvement, Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Mortality and well as DQI workgroups.
- Presents IMU reports and material to OPWDD leadership, stakeholders and Providers.
- Determine training needs and provide for staff training to ensure maximum productively of the program.
- Develop plans to address the needs to the OPWDD consumers.
- Advise and assist DQI on budgeting, planning, education programs, program proposals, resource planning and coordination, relationships with advisory boards, consumer advocacy and community groups.
- Develop in-depth IMU program evaluation strategies and determine the adequacy of current monitoring and reporting.
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Minimum Qualifications There is currently no Civil Service eligible list for this title.
Transfer:
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 52.6 of Civil Service Law. The transfer cannot be a second consecutive transfer resulting in an advancement of more than two salary grades.
Provisional:
In the event that there is not a valid eligible list for this title in this location, candidates who meet the following qualifications may be qualified for a provisional appointment. To qualify, candidates must have had one year of permanent service in a New York State administrative, fiscal, or programmatic title allocated to SG 29/M-3 OR two years of permanent service in an administrative, fiscal, or programmatic title allocated to SG 27/M-2.
If you are appointed provisionally, you must take the next scheduled Civil Service examination for this title, and your score must be reachable on the resulting eligible list before you can be permanently appointed. If you do not pass the examination or achieve a reachable score, you may not be retained.
Additional Comments • The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and it's Division of Quality Improvement 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.
• 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.
• If an employee or job applicant believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or email accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.
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