Assistant Director

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. 

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 use 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 resiliency of our communities.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

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.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The ACT Administrative Supervisor has responsibility for the ongoing clinical and administrative guidance of the ACT program in conjunction with the Team leader. The Supervisor also provides ongoing training and supervision to the clinical staff. The Supervisor may be called upon to perform any of the line functions normally performed by a therapist or contractor and is expected to be fully proficient in those areas. The Supervisor is familiar with all standards and functions as an internal resource on evidence-based treatment.

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

• Provide services to clients in the community

• Provide clinical oversight in the absence of team leader and provide administrative oversight in absence of program assistant.

• Provide supervision to the paraprofessional staff.

• Participate in case conferences, provide in service trainings etc

• Assist in leading daily team meetings, review minutes of each meeting.

• Oversees and ensures the quality of services provided and the implementation of evidence-based models of service delivery in the program.

• Help to develop/customize and deliver training suitable for staff quality and improvement.

• Support performance and quality improvement projects, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop processes to address needed corrective actions

• Engages in data collection and quality improvement activities

• Research most current practices and publications around measurement, best practices, and new methodologies; attentive to developments in the external environment for interpretation and integration into program practice.

• May supervise student interns.

• Covers for Director in his/her absence

• Completes job performance evaluations and provides professional development support on a regular basis

• Ensure timeliness of AOT reporting, CAIRS completion and other quality data metrics

• Ensure compliance of incident reporting and monitoring as per OMH regulations.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

· Dedication to recovery-focused, trauma-informed methodologies

· Champions teamwork and collaboration

· Exhibits strong interpersonal communication and collaboration abilities

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXTERITY:

· Candidates must possess the ability to read both paper and electronic documents and proficiently input substantial data into diverse computer software.

· Candidates should demonstrate manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination necessary for independent travel using public transportation.

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED (List all that is required to achieve this position):

• Clinical license including LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LCAT, or LMFT.

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

· Minimum of three years of related work experience,

· A minimum of one year of direct clinical supervision preferred

· Specialized experience with substance use disorders, vocational services, family therapy, and/or homelessness a plus.

· Previous work on an ACT team or Mobile Crisis team a plus

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):

· Proficient in Microsoft Office

· Proficient use of electronic records and data entry for medical notes

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:

· 50% of the work is performed in the community, 50% on site.

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. 

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.