Assistant Clinical Director

The Child Center of NY•New York, NY

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Child Center of NY strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives. Founded in 1953, The Child Center of NY has become a powerful community presence throughout the city. With 50 locations and 100 programs in NYC’s most under-served communities, our 1,000+ results-oriented professionals make a difference for more than 40,000 children and their families each year. 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.

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.