Team Leader of Primary Prevention

Assists in the coordination of the service delivery plans of Prevention and Support Services (P&SS).
➢Provides input to Manager/Management in the development of prevention and support activities.
➢Evaluates the results of the (Prevention Team) service delivery activities.
➢Promotes communication and adequate information flow within the organization and community.
➢Attends KSCS team, All Staff meetings and P&SS Admin team meetings.
➢Attends community events sponsored by KSCS, based on policy.
➢Participates in training sessions.
➢Makes recommendations to Manager(s) and promotes needs in program area, as required (resources, training, etc.).
➢Attends local, regional, national meetings or conferences as required and relevant to programming.
Coordinates program and service duties such as:
Onkwanen:ra -Our Gang, Teen Program, Parenting, Drama Family Violence Prevention and other Prevention Programs
➢Facilitates in the development and initiation of Primary Prevention activities to meet the goals and objectives of Family Services.
➢Works in collaboration with the Manager of Prevention Services for management of the Primary Prevention Services, as part of the Prevention Team.
➢Works in collaboration with Primary Prevention team in Annual planning activities for programming
➢Liaises with and requests support from Support Services and other teams for Primary Prevention activities.
➢Participates in internal/external committees as needed.
➢Assists in the financial management and budgeting of programs, which are assigned to the Primary Prevention area.
➢Writes reports and maintains statistics, as required.
➢Promotes and Provides Information to Staff on Tsi Niionkwarihotens (Our Ways).
➢Brings innovative, creative, holistic and cultural approaches to staff in order to improve service delivery by integrating traditional approaches to service delivery. Maintains an escalation and tracking system to allow the Technical Support Team to identify, track, monitor, and manage service requests to improve productivity.
Provides supervision and administrative support to team
➢Provides leadership and carries out Supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws
➢Recruiting appropriate staff.
➢Addressing complaints.
➢Resolving problems.
➢Training employees.
➢Team-building activities.
➢Directing specific work.
➢Appraising performance.
➢Recommends for termination of an employee, when necessary.
➢Evaluates service delivery regularly and reports the results to applicable Supervisor.
➢Supervises personnel within the team as per his/her work plans.
➢Coordinates, assigns works and provides supervision and direction to the team members.
➢Conducts yearly Performance Appraisals of the team members.
➢Addresses conflict resolution as it affects the work.
➢Addresses complaints regarding team members.
➢Establishes regular team meetings and conducts team-building activities with staff.
➢Monitors and records work hours and approves timesheets; keeps record and approves employee’s vacation, sick leaves and flexible hours.
➢Authorizes purchase orders and cash disbursements up to $1,000.
➢Monitors expense activities in compliance with budget service plans, approves team members expense requisitions and travel claims.
➢Provides direction and guidance to the team in relation to the KSCS Strategic Framework, Support Services as needed and Community Health Plan.
➢Participates in the interviewing and hiring process for staffing.
➢Ensures job descriptions are kept up-to-date and relevant to the mandate of KSCS.
➢Ensures scheduling coverage for vacation, wellness, days and evenings and holiday services.
➢Delegates appropriate replacement during Team Leader’s absence.
➢Attends monthly Supervisory sessions.
➢Participates in regular supervision sessions with immediate Supervisor.
➢Responsible for researching, developing and implementing training for the team members.
➢Identifies training needs and approves training requests of team members.
➢Attends staff meetings/workshops/conference relevant to area of employment.
➢Serves as liaison to people who are unfamiliar with other resources.
➢Coordinates, assigns work and provides supervision and direction to team members.
➢Attends daily Intake/Status meetings and assigns work as determined at Intakes/Status meetings.
➢Keeps up-to-date on trends and emerging issues in the field.
➢Oversee Case Manager recording pertaining to cases and group work.
➢Ensures participation of staff in Case Conferences, as needed and participate, when required.
Performs any other job-related duties as may be required by the immediate Supervisor.