Job description
Assistant Program Director Needed in the Bronx!
Full-time position!
Full-time position!
Overview
The IMT Assistant Program Director is responsible for assigned administrative and management tasks and for the provision of direct services. The IMT Assistant Program Director supports the IMT Program Director in the overall daily operation and management of the IMT program.
Core Principles
The job responsibilities of all staff extend to understanding and incorporating certain principles into their work and into their relationships with program participants. These principles are:
Essential Job Functions Management-related:
Direct Service-related:
Job Qualifications
For more information and to apply, please contact:
Howard Newman
Account Manager, Bond Health Staffing
5824 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11219
Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204
Fax: 1-718-302-0070
Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com
The IMT Assistant Program Director is responsible for assigned administrative and management tasks and for the provision of direct services. The IMT Assistant Program Director supports the IMT Program Director in the overall daily operation and management of the IMT program.
Core Principles
The job responsibilities of all staff extend to understanding and incorporating certain principles into their work and into their relationships with program participants. These principles are:
- Program participants' right to self-determination;
- Respectful communication;
- Services that support recovery and healing consistent with and nurturing each participant's cultural
- Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services.
Essential Job Functions Management-related:
- Provide direct supervision for assigned staff.
- Review team member documentation to ensure services are person-centered, linked to assessment activities, consistent with agency values, and entered in a timely manner.
- Assist the Program Director with overall operations of IMT services in accordance with DOHMH standards including planning and facilitating meetings, providing clinical support, ensuring on-call service availability, 24/7.
- Assist with quality assurance activities.
- Assume the Program Director's responsibilities in their absence.
- In full collaboration with the Director, builds working relationships with hospitals, courts, jails, prisons, shelter, housing providers, DOHMH and other community service providers.
- Attend and participate in supervision, meetings and training sessions as required.
- Maintain a caseload of participants, as needed.
- Remain current in the latest research and practices around recovery services, co-occurring mental health and substance use matters, mobile treatment team approaches, evidence-based and emerging best practices.
Direct Service-related:
- Assess and provide services to participants to address health and wellness, housing, income support, education, vocational training, employment and social supports.
- Complete assessments and service plans as needed
- Provide direct individual and group IMT services including: risk assessment; de-escalation; service planning and coordination; problem solving; support with obtaining housing; developing social connections; strengthening family and other relationships; developing independent living skills and obtaining necessary resources; accessing and accessing education and training; employment supports (job search, placement and support); entitlement and financial management; empowerment and self-help; wellness self-management with a focus on the development of coping skills; support with medications; and weekly groups.
- Screen and assess (including for risk) participants, families and/or significant others involved with the participant to develop a person-centered treatment plan.
- Screen and assess participants for the treatment of co-occurring substance use disorders.
- Identify participant treatment and support service needs and associated service plan objectives based on participant goals assessment results, including risk associated with harmful behaviors.
- Provide individual counseling that includes principles of Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment as appropriate.
- Advocate for and liaise with participants within the criminal justice and shelter system.
- Provide or connect participants to employment counseling, vocational rehabilitation, completion of housing applications and placement, and provision of life skills training.
- Function as resource on behavioral health services and substance use and guide team in clinical meetings on these issues.
- Provide harm reduction, integrated substance use treatment and relapse prevention services.
- Develop and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with members of participants' networks.
Job Qualifications
- Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants' rights, and self-determination in service provision.
- LMHC or LCSW licensure in the state of New York
- Minimum of three (3) years direct clinical experience with adults in a behavioral health setting.
- Minimum one (1) years supervisory or management experience preferred.
- Knowledge of multi-disciplinary mobile team experience, preferred.
- Experience training, coordinating and evaluating the work of clinical and support staff preferred.
- Available to work a flexible schedule, mornings, evenings and weekends in response to participant needs.
- Computer proficiency
- Must be able to work in the community, including use of public transportation
- Bilingual Spanish-speaking, preferred
- Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center
For more information and to apply, please contact:
Howard Newman
Account Manager, Bond Health Staffing
5824 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11219
Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204
Fax: 1-718-302-0070
Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com
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