SUPERVISOR, ADULT AND AGING SERVICES

Loudoun County’s Department of Family Services is seeking qualified applicants for its Adult Services Supervisor position. The Adult Services Program assists older adults and adults living with a disability who need services or support to enhance self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life while supporting their right to self-determination.

Staff are committed to provide assistance with empathy, compassion and confidentiality and ensure that individuals and their families are treated with dignity and respect. Services offered include: home-based services (companion), case management, and assessment for adults entering or residing in assisted-living facilities, and screening for adults entering long-term care facilities or who apply for Medicaid-funded home and community-based waiver (Long Term Services and Supports). Staff also investigate allegations of self-neglect.

Responsibilities include: 

• Managing the overall operation of the Adult Services area including identifying goals and ensuring the unit meets the goals and performance expectations, standards, agency/state policy; budgeting; recruiting and hiring of staff
• Providing direct clinical supervision to staff
• Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the unit’s programs
• Regularly reviewing, analyzing and monitoring client service data statistical reports, as requested; utilizing data to evaluate productivity and identify program trends as well as program needs
• Representing the Adult Services Program
• Partnering with community organizations to support the service needs of older adults and adults living with a disability
• Coordinating with other social service agencies in the development of program resources and services
• Other duties as assigned

The Ideal Candidate will possess:

• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead a team by using various methods, such as coaching, mentoring and guiding
• Experience working in a local social service agency in the area of older adults
• Thorough knowledge of adult services and adult protective services policies and procedures
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills to accurately interpret and ally information to achieve desired results and achieve agency goals
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in decision making and display initiative, flexibility, and receptiveness to ideas and changes
• Knowledge of principles of case management; professional knowledge and understanding of normal aging processes, the impact of age-related illnesses, mental health, and developmental disabilities, and the psycho-social dynamics of financial exploitation, self-neglect, neglect and abuse
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written

This position is located in our Leesburg office, and may work from other locations as needed. Typical hours are 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, with flexible scheduling to meet the needs of the organization.

• Requires any combination of education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Gerontology, Psychology or related field and minimum 4 years directly related Adult Services/Adult Protective Services experience, to include 1 year of supervisory experience.

• Clinical Licensure preferred 
• Performs other duties as assigned and may work from various locations.
• May be required to work some evenings and weekends.

• Employment is contingent on the results of a background, DMV, credit and CPS registry checks.