Director, Laradon School
Denver, CO
Full Time
Laradon School
Senior Manager/Supervisor

POSITION DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Director, Laradon School
Department: Laradon School
Reporting Function: Chief Executive Officer
Supervisory Functions: Assistant Director of Laradon School, Administrative Assistant, Medication Assistant, Senior Treatment Coordinator, Instructional Assistant.
Salary Range: $110,000-$130,000
Laradon has been a leader in advocacy, education, and support for kids and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities for over 75 years. We are looking for talented and dedicated team members to carry our legacy forward.
If you genuinely care about providing youth and/or adults with a sense of direction and hope, then you’ll get huge satisfaction from this role. Your influence will not only impact the lives of youth and/or adults, but the community as a whole. Laradon staff work extremely hard and are challenged every day, but they play a key role in supporting the well-being of the individuals that we serve.
Job Summary:
Planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating administration and operations of the Laradon School program.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Exercise leadership and direction of day-to-day operations of Laradon School
- Supervise and manage staff.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Child Care Licensing Colorado Department of Education.
- Lead transdisciplinary teams for integrated and collaborative behavioral health care and education.
- Provides leadership for the development and implementation of programmatic and curricular coordination.
- Maintain proper staffing levels with well-qualified people by training, support and retaining staff.
- Control and coordinate the development of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
- Develop, implement, monitor and control budgets.
- Collaborate, cooperate and coordinate effectively with counterparts, peers and staff at Laradon.
- Review participant incident reports and follow-up as necessary.
- Collect and analyze date to help staff improve effectiveness and efficiency of programs.
- Monitor and evaluate qualitative and quantitative effectiveness and efficiency programs.
- Ensure that recordkeeping and information systems pertaining to programs are well organized, accurate and well maintained.
- Ensure that policies, practices and procedures are in compliance with the general operating philosophy of Laradon as well as guidelines promulgated through funding and oversight agencies including CDHS.
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance.
- Coordinate all admissions and discharges into the programs.
- As Laradon is a small employer and employees work in a collaborative, team environment, employee must be physically present in the office to perform the different job functions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Training Requirements:
- Requires on-going training and development in children’s services function.
- Must ensure current knowledge of all children's services trends and legal requirements
- Attend all training deemed mandatory by Laradon.
Minimum Position Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Education, behavioral science or closely related field of study, or enrolled in Master’s Program
- Minimum of five years' experience in Special Education, Behavioral Health or a related field with three years of which was at a management or supervisory level.
- Colorado Department of Education Special Education Director’s License preferred.
- Excellent communication skills and leadership skill including the ability to build teams.
- Experience working with students who are dually diagnosed with a developmental disability and psychiatric behavioral disorder.
- Knowledge of administration principles and methods of special educational and applied behavioral analysis and trauma informed service models.
- Valid driving license, good driving record, and reliable transportation
- Physical requirements include ability to utilize a variety of physical education equipment; ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally; and physical condition sufficient to enable walking; standing; sitting; using hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; vision including close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus; speak to convey or exchange information, including giving instructions, assignments and/or directions.
Classification: Exempt
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