Assistant Director of Community Residences

PURPOSE:

The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff uses a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities. Our children’s community residences are single site residence’s that provide a group living for eight children and/or adolescents. The program provides a supervised, trauma informed therapeutic environment which seeks to develop the resident's skills and capacity to live in the community and attend school/work as appropriate.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Assistant Director will work closely with the Program Director in providing leadership to the staff of the 4 Children Community Residences and will make certain that all program goals are implemented in line with Agency expectations and practices.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):

• Oversee and facilitate the weekly team meetings and ensure supervision is provided to the Team Leaders
• Uses available data to identify needs, provide guidance to program staff, and inform program of planning and quality service delivery
• Maintain the program to meet the needs of the residents in the program, including but not limited to physical environment, personal needs, food, healthcare, services, etc...
• Oversee direct care staff training and orientation
• Have an active role with other community agencies including but not limited to emergency responders and community neighbors
• Network with other mental health and child welfare agencies and attend OMH meeting accordingly
• Assist the Director in ensuring that all necessary programmatic systems are in place to meet client safety needs, both on and off the ground
• Oversee key administrative staff (Team Leaders) of the program and ensure appropriate completion/ compliance of such work
• Assist with adhering to the budgetary parameters of the program
• Participate in ITM implementation
• Assistant Director will directly supervise the Team Leader’s in all four Community Residences
• Assistant Director will be available by phone after hours in the event of program related issues that are required to be reported beyond the Administrator on Duty and will report to the Director as necessary
• Additional responsibilities directed
  
  

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS MAY INCLUDE (List additional functions needed to reach goals):

• Participates in intakes, assessments, and discharge follow-up
• Participates in regular staff meetings and training
• May be asked to travel to offsite meetings and training courses
• Commitment to recovery-oriented trauma-informed practice
• Good interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
• Values and Demonstrates Cultural Competency
• Excellent resident engagement skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to drive agency van
  
  

EDUCATIONAL /TRAINING REQUIRED:

• LMSW, (master's degree in a closely related field that can be licensed)
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in children’s residential, and Mental Health is a plus
• At least 2 years of supervisory experience
• Be an effective communicator with strong oral and written skills
• Have computer skills
• A valid driver’s license is required to meet all insurance requirements
  
  

SALARY: $89,826.00 -

LOCATION: 19 Vedder Ave, Staten Island, NY 10314, US

BENEFITS:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 403B Retirement Plan
• Access to CEU's with no cost to you!
• 3 weeks vacation
  
  

EBA’s mission is to support families and strengthen communities through the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs). As a ‘production company’, we focus on the implementation issues back stage so that EBPs and community-based providers can be the ‘stars’ on stage. Over the past 15 years, EBA has served multiple states and counties in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, and behavioral health.

EBA offers a team of professionals with backgrounds in social services, juvenile justice, evidence-based programs, information technology and human resources. EBA’s interdisciplinary team brings a combined total of more than 150 years of experience in clinical services and program management related to community-based and evidence-based programs.

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