Director

at  RWJBarnabas Health

JOB OVERVIEW:

The Director of the RUCARES Peds Feeding Program assumes oversight of the clinical excellence and functional operations of the intensive feeding program at Children s Specialized Hospital while establishing the operational flow of the comprehensive continuum of care, for all patients requiring intensive feeding services.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Doctorate in psychology or behavior analysis
• Experience in interdisciplinary team programming
• Experience in a rehabilitation setting
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Innovative, flexible
• Ability to develop and deliver high quality oral and written presentations
• Research planning, implementation, publication, grant success

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS:

• Shift working, 9:00 5:00 each day
• Days to work
• FT

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supervise BCBAs and staff in the coordination and direction of intake and treatments in the intensive program
• Meet and collaborate with parents, school personnel, physicians, and other key stakeholders
• Develops and guides research on the assessment and treatment of patients with feeding disorders
• Publish research articles in peer-reviewed journals
• Procure grand and contract funding for research
• Oversee the development of presentations for local, national and international conferences
• Establish and/or enhance current process flows for intensive feeding programming at CSH, aligning with all service lines providing feeding
• Work closely with outpatient leadership team in operational needs for programming and development
• Aligns with marketing and referral development teams to build community awareness and referrals
• Leads and collaborates with therapy supervisors and clinical leads in establishment of clinical training, competencies, and methodology
• Develop and establish clear and evidence-based outcome tracking and trending
• Direct staffing, growth, clinical treatment, research and budgets of intensive feeding program
• Lead, support and communicate with staff to establish sense of ownership for the success of the program
• Oversees performance reviews, staffing, and recruitment
• Directs intensive feeding program in budgets and spending
• Develops, reviews, and implements policies and procedures in alignment with accrediting bodies
• Establishes and reports out on clear progress metrics and performance indicators for the team
• Other duties as assigned

OTHER DUTIES:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.