Assistant Clinical Director-CCBHC Macari Operations LCSW

The Child Center of NY•New York, NY

19d•$96,820 - $96,820•Hybrid

About The Position

The Assistant Clinical Director in the CCBHC is responsible for providing direct clinical and administrative supervision of clinical staff in the CCBHC. The ACD ensures staff meet agency expectations and best practice standards.

Requirements

Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Mental Health Counselor with Diagnostic Privilege.
5 years of social work/mental health service experience.
Strong management and leadership skills
Excellent communication skills.
Aptitude for training staff.
Maintain regular, consistent, and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance, and adherence to relevant health & safety procedures.
Safe and successful performance, including meeting productivity standards.
Maintain an understanding of the principles, methods, and processes needed to perform the job. Attends staff meetings, seminars and in-service training as assigned.
Demonstrates the ability to complete work in an acceptable manner by the time and/or date established with accuracy, neatness and thoroughness and minimal amount of errors.
Maintain established departmental policies and procedures including maintain strict confidentiality and adherence to all HIPAA guidelines at all times.

Nice To Haves

Experience with audit, quality assurance and quality improvement activities.
Bilingual in one or more of the following: Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Bengali and others, may be required depending on client needs

Responsibilities

Reviews and approves diagnosis-based progress notes, treatment plans and assessments for a team of clinicians and peer support staff.
Provide clinical supervision and training to assigned staff ensuring client care is consistent with standards of best practice and meets principles of social work/therapeutic practice.
Assesses and addresses teams’ clinical competence via methods including, but not limited to, chart reviews, participation in clinical sessions, tracking and trending of patterns of non-compliance with best practice standards.
Enhance best practice through various methods including discussion of findings, case conferences, clinical consultations, meetings, debriefings, etc.
Maintains clinical supervision logs to ensure appropriate clinical supervision is provided.
Assigns caseloads appropriate to staff’s expertise, experience and qualifications
Cooperate and assist with incident management requirements, UR/UM and other quality assurance and CQI expectations, including audit and review preparation
Ensure compliance with clinical documentation standards and regulations via regular case and documentation reviews
Collaborate with leadership from all sites and Director of Clinical Best Practice to ensure consistency across clinics and assess and inform training and development needs of staff and practice
Back Up coverage and Support as part of the administrative BH team, including support to Admissions leadership
Support in data collection/analysis for CCBHC services, grants and contracts
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Manages the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the Program/Department.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the agency policies and applicable laws.
Responsibilities include on/offboarding, case assignment and transfers, accountability and commendations, performance reviews, and resolutions of concerns.