Compliance Specialist - YRTC Omaha

State of Nebraska•Omaha, NE

4d•$20 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

Join our team as a Compliance Specialist to tackle complex situations, train your peers, and create actionable recommendations. Your analytical skills will play a crucial role in identifying trends, pinpointing issues, and crafting effective solutions to ensure patient/client treatment activities are delivered in accordance with federal and State standards and regulations and drive our organization's success. If you excel at interpreting and applying regulations such as CMS, JCAHO, ACA, and PREA, along with federal and state standards, we want to connect with you.

Requirements

Post high school coursework/training in criminal justice, law enforcement, or a human service-related field and experience with investigations, data or trend analysis or related area.
Valid driver's license or the ability to provide independent authorized transportation for work-related travel.

Nice To Haves

Two years of experience in conducting and facilitating training on administrative investigations.
Knowledge and experience in American Correctional Association standards, Prison Rape Elimination Act standards and/or Child Care Licensing or the Joint Commission as well as experience with accreditation standard preparation.

Responsibilities

Travel to other DHHS Juvenile Facilities as needed to assist with Compliance related work as the floating Compliance Specialist.
Conducts internal abuse/neglect situations.
Investigations such as incidences of peer-to-peer sexual contact, medication variance, peer-to-peer aggression with injury, suspicious injury of unknown origin, elopement off campus and deaths, egregious staff misconduct and other investigations as directed.
Conducts internal facility investigations by collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses, alleged perpetrator(s) and victim(s), collects written statements and reviews camera footage, documents and records.
Prepares investigative reports to include findings and conclusions on alleged incidents and recommended actions.
May be required to testify before administrative and judicial bodies.
Processes, files, and tracks juvenile/patient grievances/complaints and determines appropriate resolution.
Collaborates with individuals, law enforcement officials and other entities as needed and maintains detailed records, evidence, and data pertaining to investigations.
Provides abuse/neglect training to new hires during orientation and as assigned.
Observes patient/client treatment operations and activities to identify compliance risk issues, document deficiencies, and recommend changes in procedures or training or other actions to eliminate noncompliance.
Assists in the preparation of facility audits for accreditation of ACA, PREA, and PBS.
Conducts regular reviews to ensure treatment documentation and activities are compliant with established standards and regulations; prepares audit reports and provides appropriate recommendations to the facility risk/compliance manager.
Provides training to facility staff concerning facility policies and procedures and relevant Federal and State standards or regulations.
Serves as a consultant to facility staff for the interpretation and application of facility polices/procedures and Federal/State standards and regulations in application to specific circumstances such as restraint/seclusion, room searches, and “near miss” situations.
Conducts “mock surveys” to determine the level of treatment activity and environment to established Federal/State/facility standards/regulations/policies.
Initiates data collection and provides detailed reports to Risk/Compliance Manager weekly, monthly, and quarterly for grievances, confinement and any other area or process improvement that has been assigned.
Survey collection and data input through PBS.
Conducts trend analysis to identify patterns and variations in staff performance and prepares various reports for Facility Administration and Compliance Manager.