Department Director
The Jewish Board

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

The ACT program provides an integrated set of evidenced based treatment, rehabilitation, case-management and support services to individuals residing in Shelters and/or living in supportive housing programs or their own residences in the community who are diagnosed with severe mental illness and whose needs have not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches. Through a mobile, multi-disciplinary team of staff, recipients are supported in their recovery through an individualized, person-centered model of care.

The Department Director leads the ACT Team's administrative oversight, ensuring the ACT teams are adhering to regulatory requirements, clinical best practices and standardization of care compliant with the ACT model. The ACT model promotes an evidenced based team approach in its work with adults with behavioral health disorders living in homeless shelters or in the community. S/he is responsible for ensuring clinical services are provided using evidence based approaches and best practice, budgeting/financial oversight of the program and managing program operations to ensure the program runs smoothly and with minimal disruptions to client services. The Department Director provides on-going training, and guidance to the Team Director, clinical and office staff. He/she will supervise directly the Team Director. The Department Director is knowledgeable of all regulatory requirements and Agency/Divisional clinical standards and practices and program compliance with regulations and standards of care. S/he reports to the Senior Director.

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• • Responsible for the clinical and administrative operations of the ACT team and ensures adequate coverage to meet the clinical needs of the clients and to be in compliance with the contract.
  • Responsible for overall program budget, including oversight and management of revenue and expense.
  • Responsible for the quality of services and uses outcomes data and client feedback to inform services.
  • Hires and orients new staff in collaboration with the Team Director conducts performance evaluations provides training through regular supervision and may attend team meetings as needed to provide administrative oversight and clinical training to the team members; assists the Team Director in addressing problematic behaviors and performance issues.
  • Responsible for insuring all reporting requirements are being adhered to in a timely manner. This includes staff documentation, reporting into various systems that interact with ACT as well as conducting internal reviews of documentation.
  • Provides regularly scheduled supervision to the Team Director. May meet with other Team staff on an as needed basis in collaboration with the Team Director
  • Ensures appropriate supervision of all program interns, either through direct supervision or by overseeing the clinical supervision provided by other appropriately licensed and trained team members.
  • May provide clinical coverage in absence of team members.
  • Is a key staff resource for community outreach efforts and may perform such outreach and establish linkages with the assigned shelters and other groups, individuals or organizations which may be helpful to our clients.
  • Provide after-hours emergency coverage via cell phone on a rotating basis.
  
  

Qualifications:

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

A Master's Degree or higher in social work, psychology, rehabilitation counseling or a related field plus NY State licensure as:

• Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW), Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counseling (LMHC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT), Licensed Psychologist or Licensed Creative Arts Therapist.

If you join us, you'll have these great benefits:

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

Other details

• Job Family Program Administration [500s]
• Job Function Directors
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator 8832 - Physician & Clerical
• Min Hiring Rate $110,000.00
• Max Hiring Rate $115,000.00

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