Program Director Job at Bond Health
Program Director needed-Full-Time Position
IMT Team position
IMT Team position
Program/Department Description:
Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) is an innovative, creative, trauma-informed mobile practice model designed to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to individuals whose needs have not been met by traditional services. IMT participants interact with homeless services, criminal justice, and behavioral health service systems. IMT teams are hired, trained and funded to maximize flexibility and continuity of care for persons who historically have been poorly served.
Overview
The Program Director provides administration oversight of the IMT Team and serves as a practicing clinician. The IMT Program Director shares responsibility with the team's psychiatrist/Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for clinical supervision of all team members and clinical treatment of all participants.
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 background, experience, identity, and values.
- Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services.
Essential Job Functions
Management-related:
- Develop, implement and maintain program policies and procedures.
- Ensure the establishment of organizational systems for programmatic and participant information and data.
- Direct and supervise team member activities.
- Plan and facilitate team organizational and service planning meetings.
- Provide clinical direction and supervision to team members, working in concert with psychiatrist or PNP.
- Conduct, review and approve comprehensive clinical assessments, service and discharge plans for all participants.
- Review team member documentation to ensure services are person-centered, linked to assessment activities and consistent with agency values.
- Build working relationships with hospitals, courts, jails, prisons, shelter, housing providers, DOHMH and other community service providers.
- Collect, analyze and present participant outcome data and evaluation of service effectiveness.
- Completes internal and external reporting as required.
- Complete thorough, timely and accurate documentation.
- Maintains communication with the assigned DOHMH Program Specialist, including consistent participation in meetings and reports sessions as required.
- Ensure program service availability, 24/7.
- Ensure staffing pattern and staff competencies are consistent with IMT Guidelines, including maintaining an appropriate participant to staff ratio.
- Responsible for overall operationalization of IMT services in accordance with DOHMH regulations.
- 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.
- Attend and participate in supervision, meetings and training sessions as required.
Direct Service-related:
- Develop and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with members of participants' networks.
- 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: 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.
- Provide 24-hour crisis intervention services on rotating basis.
Requirements
- Licensed in New York State in Clinical Social Work (LCSW) or Psychology (PhD or PsyD)
- Minimum of three (3) years direct clinical experience with adults in a behavioral health setting.
- Knowledge of multi-disciplinary mobile team experience, preferred.
- Minimum three (3) years supervisory or management experience.
- Experience developing, implementing and evaluating program and participant goals.
- Experience training, coordinating and evaluating the work of clinical and support staff.
- Available to work a flexible schedule, mornings, evenings and weekends in response to participant needs.
- Must be able to work in the community, including use of public transportation
- Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as comfort with learning new electronic systems.
- 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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