Maine Department of Health and Human Services Direct Hire Vacancy Announcement Staff Development Coordinator Riverview Psychiatric Center

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CODE: 4063          RANGE:  25 (Supervisory)    $41,600-$56,929

Plus $.30/hour Institutional Stipend

Value of State-paid Dental Insurance:  $13.69 biweekly

Value* of State-paid Health Insurance:

95% State Contribution (employee pays 5%):  $345.58 biweekly

Value of State's Share of Employee Retirement 11.54%

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Opening Date: December 5, 2012	Contact:	C. Burns
Closing Date: December 19, 2012	Telephone:	(207) 624-4672
Location: #11 State House Station, 250 Arsenal St., Augusta, ME 04330

Agency Information

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is driven by its vision of Maine people living safe, healthy and productive lives. Its goal is to assist the people of Maine in Meeting their own needs, as well as the developmental, health and safety needs of their children. It serves the public in an environment that reflects a caring, responsive and well-managed organization

Riverview Psychiatric Center is a center for best practice, treatment, education and research, for individuals with serious, persistent mental illness, and co-occurring substance use disorders.

Job Duties

Job Overview: This is professional services work in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating staff training programs. Responsibilities include administering and coordinating staff training for a psychiatric hospital. Supervision is exercised over professional and clerical employees. Work is performed under administrative direction.
• Analyzes and researches hospital training needs in order to develop staff development programs.
• Determines scope of activity, methods of implementation, and expected results in order to improve existing programs and/or develop new training programs.
• Reviews federal and state regulations and departmental/hospital policies in order to determine staff training needs.
• Examines and evaluates community, college, and university resources in order to determine resources available to meet hospital training needs.
• Examines and evaluates training reports and fiscal statements in order to determine program status and keep supervisor informed.
• Coordinates and consults with program directors and other staff in order to plan and implement in-service education programs.
• Plans, organizes, assigns, and directs work activities of subordinate staff in order to facilitate attainment of established work goals and objectives and ensure consistent application of technical policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Confers with and counsels subordinate staff in order to exchange information; explain work policies, procedures, and guidelines; identify work related problems; and formulate possible solutions.
• Implements and complies with human resource laws, policies, procedures and practices such as: AA/EEO, recruitment, employment, position classification, performance appraisals, training, discipline, contract administration, human resource components of security protocols of agency information security and confidentiality policies, and employee safety.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS: A Bachelors Degree in Public Administration, Human Resource Management, Education or related field and four (4) years experience in personnel administration and/or the development and implementation of staff development training. Equivalent directly related experience may be substituted for education.