This is a professional position providing supervisory oversight to the youth and families in the Treatment Works program under the Families First Division. The TW program provides an intensive wraparound approach to engaging and working with youth who have been identified as displaying violence or are identified as at risk of violence, thoughts of suicide or self-harm, identified by the Pinellas County School system. TW ensures that youth and families are stabilized and prepared to remain in or reenter their educational environment. The TW program ensures that youth and families have time sensitive access to mental health, substance use treatment and supportive services focused on strengthening youth and families and proactively supports those youth and families at risk of expulsion from school or law enforcement involvement. All TW programming utilizes a solution-focused, family centered approach and evidenced based or research supported practices to assist families in meeting needs and goals while preventing further incidents at school or with law enforcement. Treatment Works will work with all members of the family with a team-based approach in a supportive, empowering and respectful manner to assist the family with creating safe and stable coping skills and parenting practices to facilitate long-term behavior change that will ensure that youth are safe in their school and home. The Supervisor of Treatment Works will play an integral role of support, coaching and guidance for a team of Counselors and Intensive Case Managers (HFW-ICM) who will be providing clinical interventions directed at safety concerns that bring the youth and family into treatment, utilizing natural supports, community supports, and input and resources from other community partners or professional agencies. The Supervisor of Treatment Works oversees the functions of the members of an Integrated Decision Team (IDT) consisting of the Counselor and a Behavioral Health Case Manager. In additional to clinical interventions, the Treatment Works team is responsible for ensuring the youth and family have an individualized treatment plan that is strength based and built collaboratively with each member of the IDT team during the IDT session. The treatment plan, risk level, and clinical interventions are developed by the Integrated Decision Team that consists of the family, natural supports, and formal supports that care about and know the youth and family best. Each IDT member, including the youth and family, contributes valuable knowledge, expertise and perspective that informs the treatment plan and clinical response. The Supervisor will be a subject matter expert on HFW and will ensure that case management and services focus on clinical interventions, utilizing natural supports, community supports, and input and resources from other community partners or professional agencies. The Supervisor will ensure that HFW-ICM services adhere to the HFW model and HFW principles of: Family Voice and Choice, Culturally and Linguistically Competent, Individualized, Strengths-Based, Natural Supports, Community-Based, Team-Based, Collaboration and Integration, Persistence-Unconditional Care, and Outcome-Based. The Supervisor will ensure that Case Management services emphasize individualized treatment planning that is strength based and built collaboratively with the youth and family and natural and community supports that care about and know the youth and family best. The Supervisor will ensure that ICM services occur in the community at a place convenient and comfortable for the family. This is a field position. The Supervisor of Treatment Works 1.0 is responsible for ensuring an annual client facing client care number of 9,588 hours, which reflects a minimum annual number of 4,230 for Intensive Case Managers (3), 3,948 annually for Counselors (3) and 1,410 annually for Children’s Care Coordinators (1). Achieving the minimum required weekly, monthly and annual client facing client care hours is an essential function of this position. Directions for Living is an essential services provider. All Directions for Living employees must be willing and able to provide vital support and essential services to the people that we serve in the event of an emergency, pandemic or other disaster situation.
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level