Assistant Director Department

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.

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

• 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

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Knowledge of electronic health records, Avatar knowledge is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook and Word
• Aptitude for learning new systems and application software
• Experience with telehealth platforms a plus.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE (List what the desire to reach goals):

• Bilingual Spanish/English a plus
• Verbal and communication skills
• Ability to work as a team player

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXTERITY:
The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform data entry into various computer programs. Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to travel independently using public transportation and/or vehicle.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:

• Services are provided in the community and the office
• While the offices of the Jewish Board are accessible in accordance with the ADA, the sites to which
• Staff may need to travel may or may not be
• Risks/hazards associated with the position are those which may be encountered traveling around New York City.

We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.