Director Department

The Jewish Board • New York, NY

11d

About The Position

The Kaplan House (Manhattan) and Cedar Knolls House (Bronx) provides therapeutic and support services to adolescent’s ages 16-21 who are referred to us through ACS and the Juvenile Justice system. The Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) provides a transitional living environment for older youth17-21 years old who are ready to move towards independent living. Our residents have experienced significant trauma, resulting in behavioral, emotional, and functional/ development issues. Both Programs offer an extensive independent living skills program, including vocational preparation, and educational services that assists youth towards reaching independence. The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff uses a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities. Our children’s community residences are single site residence’s that provides a group living for eight children and/or adolescents. The program provides a supervised, trauma informed therapeutic environment, which seeks to develop the resident's skills and capacity to live in the community and attend school/work as appropriate POSITION OVERVIEW: The Director of CPI Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing the quality of care in ACS/OFCS/OMH Children Residential Programs. In addition, ensure the programs are incompliances with all regulatory bodies. The Director of CPI will updates policies and procedure for the programs.

Requirements

• Willingness to work with children/adolescents living with the impact of trauma and experience mental health challenges
• Compassion and respect for vulnerable individuals
• Patience and understanding for the sometimes slow process of stabilization and recovery
• Excellent youth engagement skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Master’s degree required
• 3 plus years of supervisory experience
• Experience with Residential Care preferably with Adolescents.
• Driver’s License required to meet all insurance requirements.
• Completes regular and timely documentation
• Coordinate and collaborate with the administrative team
• Monitor the Alltrac system and OCFS significant incident responses.
• Update all policies and procedures on a yearly and as needed basis.
• Working knowledge of Connections, Microsoft Office, Outlook and Word, and other databases
• Aptitude for learning new systems and application software
• Travel between programs.
• Able to read data and document, including spreadsheets, reports and electronic health records in a printed form and on the computer screen.
• Able to input data in the electronic health record.
• Limited application of manual dexterity and hand eye coordination.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assist with implementing on-going CPI activities including a systematic quality improvement plan which identifies program strengths and weakness; develop internal staff trainings, conducting internal audits (scorecards), facilitating external agency audits and preparedness.
• Completely monthly score cards for the SILP program.
• Act as Liaison with the Evaluation and Review staff at JBFCS Headquarters as well as other regulatory bodies including Justice Center, OCFS, APA, OMH, MHCU, Older Youth Services, etc.
• Continually evaluate organizational needs including development and yearly review of Program Policies and Procedures, ensuring they meet regulatory changes and guidelines.
• Overseeing agency compliance with regulator applications including: ARTS, LTS, PAT, 29i application, Agency Annual Profile, QRTP profile, and Connections.
• Track and oversee agency incidents, this includes documentation of events, regulate Alltrac reports, OSR reports, MHCU reports, OCFS fire alerts, LGBTQ notifications, PIPs/CAPs.
• Monitor all Justice Center allegations, significant incident follow up, internal investigations and IRC presentation and recommendation follow up.
• Will provide weekly supervision to the CPI Coordinators, and monthly group supervision.
• Conduct periodic resident satisfaction surveys, and surveys requested by governing bodies.
• Facilitate FTC’s (Family Team Conferences) in the absence of the program CPI Coordinator, as needed.
• Facilitate all FTC’s for the SILP program.
• Case consultation for high risk cases, and clinical guidance to program directors and clinical leads.
• Provide coverage in event of program CPI vacancy.
• Update team with new ADM’s from OCFS, and trainings that support the team via HSLC and ACS Workforce Institute.
• Will monitor the Community Residences Playbook.
• Will Manage the PIR and data collection for ITM with program leadership
• Participates in weekly administrative meetings
• Participates in regular staff meetings and trainings.
• Other tasks as assigned.

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
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees