Lead PNMP Coordinator - Direct Support & Therapy

Texas Health and Human Services; Harlingen (TX); On-site; USD 41,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid employee health insurance

Defined benefit pension plan

Generous time off benefits

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) seeks a Lead PNMP Coordinator to oversee physical and nutritional management services at the Rio Grande State Supported Living Center in Harlingen, TX. The role emphasizes coordination of PNMP activities for individuals served, and ensures proper instruction and documentation.

Responsibilities include guiding direct support staff, leading PNMP meetings, coordinating training, and maintaining client records.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of rehabilitative programs for individuals with developmental disabilities.
• Knowledge of physical nutritional management plans.
• Knowledge of oral and enteral eating, positioning, mobility, communication, and other related PNMP services.
• Skill in the use of computers for data entry.
• Skill in training and coaching others to perform job duties.
• Ability to administer first aid or CPR once trained to do so.
• Ability to express ideas in writing with attention to spelling, grammar and organization.
• Ability to follow a series of oral directions.
• Ability to express ideas verbally in a clear and orderly fashion;
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport with co-workers and individuals served.
• Ability to collect, organize, and enter information into databases.
• Ability to provide assistance to clients in Habilitation Therapies.
• Ability to maintain flexibility in work schedule.

Responsibilities

• Attends work on a regular basis and may be required to work a specific shift schedule or, at times, even a rotating schedule, extended shift and/or overtime in accordance with agency leave policy and performs other duties as assigned.
• Performs and leads the work of direct support professionals to perform duties including providing daily work assignments, provides on-the-job training and coaching and communicates problems or issues to the Habilitation Therapy supervisor or designee.
• Monitors all aspects of PNMP related programming, quality of implementation, and staff compliance and reports findings to QIDP, Unit RN, and HT to ensure continued effectiveness of programs.
• Provides orientation, training and mentoring to new direct support professionals and refresher training to tenured staff. Oversees the training of new employees in topics such as lifting, mealtime procedures, and other PNMP related activities/plans demonstrating with specific individuals in accordance with their plans.
• Provides competency-based training, coaching and mentoring to ensure direct care staff is well prepared and knowledgeable about activities outlined in the PNMPs to ensure Plans are carried out as prescribed.
• Acts as an interface between direct support professionals and Therapists to ensure good communication of individual’s plans, needs and issues. Gives input into development of PNMPs for assigned individuals to meet needs agreed upon by the IDT.
• Serves as a member of the PNMP Team to ensure PNMP information is accurate. Ensures appropriate attendance and participation by direct support professionals at assigned meetings and committees.
• Maintains, and trains direct support professionals to maintain, pertinent documentation in PNMP notebooks in a timely manner to keep others informed of PNMP changes, and trains staff in changes.
• Assists in implementing planned client care programs. Prepares, and trains others to prepare, departmental equipment and inventory.
• Leads the monitoring of meals and snacks to ensure safe eating practices.
• Provides assistance, as needed, in transporting of individuals going on scheduled activities and in emergency situations.
• Performs, and oversees others to perform, accurate data entry, and timely maintenance of client records.
• Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation.

Job description

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) seeks a Lead PNMP Coordinator to oversee physical and nutritional management services at the Rio Grande State Supported Living Center in Harlingen, TX. The role emphasizes coordination of PNMP activities for individuals served, and ensures proper instruction and documentation.

Responsibilities include guiding direct support staff, leading PNMP meetings, coordinating training, and maintaining client records.