Program Coordinator

Key Duties and Responsibilities: Assists clients to live successfully in residential settings such as group homes. Ensures that clients’ physical, emotional social, educational, medical needs are met. Assists clients to enhance quality of life with activities of daily living and the development of life skills.

1. Participates in the assessment, goal setting and program planning (Personal Service Plan) for individuals living in a residence. Documents, implements and provides input into the evaluation of theprogram.
2. Provides life skills training such as meal preparation, housekeeping, personal care skills and personal finance and implements personal service plans.
3. Assists clients with activities of daily living such as feeding, lifts, transfers, hygiene, grooming and toileting. This may include transfer of function duties such as gastrostomy feeding, tracheostomy management, and suction and bowel management.
4. Participates in various client-focused activities in accordance with careplans.
5. Recognizes, analyzes and deals with potential emergency situations such as clients’ aggressive behaviour to ensure no harm comes to the client and/or the public. Reports problems to thesupervisor. 6. Administers medication to clients in accordance with established policy.
7. Assists with case management by identifying potential problems and reporting any difficulties. Provides input to counsellor, professional, with regard to the development of appropriate program plans to achieve residents’ objectives. Contributes to the evaluation of residents’ progress and prepares reports.
8. Provides emotional support and feedback to residents and theirfamilies.
9. Transports and assists residents to appointments, shopping or leisure activities.
10. Performs residence maintenance and housekeeping duties such as laundry, sweeping, mopping floors, mowing lawns, inventory, shopping, cleaning equipment and food services.
11. Maintains reports such as statistics, logbooks, daily activities onresidents.
12. Identifies social, economic, recreational and educational services inthe community that will meet clients’ needs. Maintains liaison with other agencies, professionals, government officials and the community.
13. Performs other related duties as required.