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NYC Health + Hospitals · 18 hours ago

Wellness Program Director

Brooklyn, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

3+ years exp

NYC Health + Hospitals is a 320-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility located in central Brooklyn. The Wellness Program Director will coordinate and enhance wellness programming for staff, focusing on proactive and preventative health initiatives across the organization.

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Responsibilities

Responsible for strategic planning associated with health and wellness programs and overall embedding and fostering of wellness culture; facilitate the strategy and process to launch new programs based on the 8 Dimensions of Well-being across the facility/service line

Demonstrates effectiveness in planning, organizing, and managing the ongoing operations of employee wellness at assigned location(s)

Assist in coordination and facilitation of wellness activities and programs for all employees

Proactive wellness and real-time crisis support for employees; assist in the development of service line/facility-based crisis plans for employees

Lead and facilitate, in concert with Helping Healers Heal stakeholders, department meetings to embed unit-based wellness programming across the facility/service line

Maintains the budget for the Workforce Wellness department

Plan and implement trainings, speakers, seminars, and custom in-services that promote overall awareness and well-being of employees

Collaboration with Communications and Public Affairs offices to generate promotion and publicity plans for wellness programs throughout the facility/service line

Ensure awareness of wellness programs and resources available to improve utilization

Provide emotional debriefs, a 1:1 or group conversation with a focus on reflection, to foster a supportive and safe environment for all employees to connect and engage in emotional and psychological processing; minimum of 40 wellness encounters (1:1/group debriefs and wellness events) per month across all tours

Track all encounters on a monthly basis, enter pertinent information into the quality assurance program portal, and provide qualitative and quantitative data-based insights on facility/service line-specific utilization of the H3 program to key stakeholders

Oversee data management, ensuring integrity of data and use of H3 portal to accurately reflect wellness programming utilization

Handle sensitive and confidential mental health information due to the nature of emotional debriefs while upholding HIPAA compliance

Manages relationships with internal departments, partnerships with external vendors and stakeholders, and monitor the confidentiality, quality and accuracy of data and information shared/collected

Participate in service recovery surrounding staff well-being after sentinel events as well as risk management cases while ensuring the facility/service line are equipped to provide the necessary confidential wellness support to their staff in times of need

Ensure wellness programming is spread across the facility/service line equitably while establishing access across tours, weekends, and holidays by overseeing facility-specific H3 teams and programs

Facilitates proactive and preventative wellness rounds covering 100% of the facility/service line

Compile statistical summaries of participant data, training attendance, equipment inventories, process and outcome measures to ensure proper program evaluation

Assists the facility/service line in the development of policies and procedural guidelines relevant to the operation of the overarching wellness program and critical response workflows

Provides discipline & service-based wellness education and quality assurance report-outs (e.g. resident orientation, grand rounds, M&Ms, Town Hall, executive meetings, safety huddles, department heads meetings, etc.)

Partner with H3 stakeholders and facility/service line-based H3 Steering Teams to develop partnerships with local Chiefs, Chairs, Department Heads, Directors, etc. to integrate wellness action plans across local areas

Cross tours and disciplines

Qualification

Creative Arts Therapy LicenseProgram DevelopmentCrisis SupportWellness Program ManagementData ManagementEmotional SupportCollaboration SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

A valid License or Limited Permit issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a Creative Arts Therapist. Employees working with a Limited Permit must obtain Licensure within two years from their date of appointment

A valid License issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a Creative Arts Therapist; and

Two years of full-time, paid, professional experience in creative arts therapy

One additional year of experience