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Founded in 1875, our agency has grown over the years to address most of the challenges children, adults, families, and communities face across the lifespan, including substance use, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence/sexual assault, human trafficking, homelessness, juvenile justice, mental health, neighborhood distress, and poverty. Today, we offer 42 programs from 20 locations in east central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. At Heartland Family Service, we are committed to building a culture that values and celebrates diversity in addition to creating a trauma-informed environment.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF WORK
The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Project Director will provide direct oversite of all SAMSHA CCBHC standards and guidelines within the Heartland Family Service Nebraska to ensure compliance. This position will have supervisory responsibilities in addition to major collaboration and support functions with program directors and staff. This role will identify client needs, connect individuals to appropriate supports, and monitor outcomes to strengthen continuity of care and build long term sustainability for the CCBHC program. Assignments may entail a wide knowledge base, decision- making, and problem solving. Very detail oriented, organized, and able to meet deadlines, as well as ongoing task prioritization, are necessities.
Compensation: between $50,900 and $64,394 per year (salary is determined by total years of relevant experience)
Work Schedule: 40 hours per week
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s Degree in human services, psychology, social work, sociology or a related field preferred.
- Five or more years’ experience in related field
- Behavioral Health administrative and supervisory experience preferred
- Project Management Experience
- Valid driver’s license/ acceptable driving record
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide direct supervision, coaching, and performance oversight for Care Team Specialists and all assigned program staff in alignment with agency standards and CCBHC best practices.
- Collaborates with Program Directors and Staff to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of CCBHC grant funds and to ensure best client care.
- Lead the implementation of care coordination services across the agency with a focus on targeted case management. This includes developing procedures, integrating the service into existing workflows, and ensuring alignment with Nebraska’s service requirements.
- Oversee team assignments, treatment planning, and day-to-day problem solving based on client needs.
- Assists with human resources responsibilities for hiring purposes to include, screening applicants, setting up interviews, checking references and working through the recruiting and IT systems for each applicant.
- Hires, supervises, monitors, trains, evaluates, and develops program staff. Training includes orientation period and ongoing.
- Responsible for grant implementation in the Behavioral Health Programs.
- Participates in agency wide quality improvement teams and workgroups. Guides implementation of any projects, policies, etc. related to CCBHC grant or that support this project.
- Monitors and supervises collection of data and analysis as required by CCBHC grant.
- Completes all required reports for CCBHC grant.
- Regularly reviews data to ensure project is running according to guidelines and quickly makes project adjustments as needed to ensure compliance and efficiency.
- Updates, develops, and completes forms for program needs.
- Monitors and manages deadlines for reports, specific projects, and tasks.
- Coordinates and schedules meetings and organize agendas.
- Networks with community providers and other agency programs to assist clients in accessing needed community resources and to promote Heartland Family Service.
- Assists Program Directors and Grants Director with research for additional dollars to fund the programs and writing for these grants.
- Local travel: 25%; all other travel less than 10%.
- Create, maintain, and share as appropriate a dynamic self-care plan.
- Strive to make connections between the agency and the larger community whenever possible to contribute to the agency’s ongoing fundraising and friend-raising efforts.
- Essential functions of this job are to be performed on company physical work site
Salary : $50,900 - $64,394
