About the Role
The Kaplan House in Manhattan provides therapeutic and support services to adolescents aged 17-21 referred through ACS and the Juvenile Justice system. The role involves full responsibility for the clinical and administrative guidance of clinical staff, including training and supervision, and serving as the ITM liaison. The position requires ensuring safe, high-quality programs, adherence to policies, and maintaining the integrity of treatment planning and documentation standards.
Responsibilities
- Provides regularly scheduled supervision to all clinical staff members.
- Evaluates and assesses treatment and service plans.
- Evaluates clinical staff, provides training through regular supervision.
- May carry a caseload, as needed.
- Active participant in the intake process for new referrals, and reviews client’s ongoing service/ treatment plans.
- Ensures all clinical needs of the client are met through the course of the youth’s placement.
- Ensures appropriate supervision of all program Interns, either through direct supervision or by overseeing the clinical supervision provided by the social worker.
- May run specialized groups to meet the needs of the program.
- Is a key staff resource for community outreach efforts and may perform such outreach and establish linkages with other groups, individuals or organizations which may be helpful to our clients.
- Provides all necessary notes, progress notes, Risk Assessments and other paperwork as required.
- May cover for Assistant Director in his/her absence.
- Assists in day-to-day working of the model – skills groups assistance, modeling, coaching skills reinforcement and teaching skills on the fly.
- Program development, documentation review, material design and curriculum development are all major tasks.
- Oversees data tracking, collection, analysis, and reporting via the Program Implementation Review (PIR).
- Trouble shoots implementation barriers, puts action steps in place to address barriers, and tracks progress toward goals.
- Participates in ongoing training and efforts that develop expertise in ITM(DBT) so they are able to be culture carriers of the ITM in their organization.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Hires and provides clinical and administrative supervision to the Clinical Supervisor, Behavioral Health Clinicians, as well as other clinical staff.
- Manage risk regarding client safety by adhering to all risk management protocols.
Requirements
- Ability to write policy, procedures, and protocols.
- Ability to assess program needs, increase efficiencies, and build teams.
- Ability to develop and execute strategic plans with staff members to enhance programming.
- Empathy for youth and families, and a passion for including youth and family voice in child welfare programming operations.
- Capacity to lead and supervise an array of child/adolescent focused services within a milieu treatment setting.
- Expands and develops youth-guided family-driven care.
- Embodies Sanctuary principles & values and ensures an integration of said principles throughout the program.
- Supports and Strengthens Interdisciplinary practice.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills.
- Skilled in using Data to Inform & Guide Practice.
- Values and Demonstrates Cultural Competency.
- Values professional development and participation in supervision and training.
- Ability to navigate stairs.
- Ability to respond to crisis.
- Attend meetings outside of program, as needed.
Skills
- Clinical supervision
- Administrative guidance
- Training
- ITM (Integrated Treatment Model)
- Risk management
- Treatment planning
- Documentation
- Community outreach
- Data tracking
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Microsoft Office
- Outlook
- Word
- Telemental health platforms
Location
- Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in either child welfare, Juvenile justice, mental health, or other residential treatment setting
- Three (3) of which having been in a senior managerial/operations level capacity
- Specialized experience with residential treatment may also be required
Education Level
- LCSW, LMSW or a master’s degree in social work.
- Behavioral Health or related field.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off 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
- 27/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
- Life and disability insurance
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
