Program Director-55563401

East Brooklyn ACT Team

2581 Atlantic Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11208, USA

Description

JOB SUMMARY

Under the general supervision of the Vice President Community Support Services, Team Leader / Program Director and the guidelines provided by ICL and the NYS OMH for the Mental Health Comprehensive Medicaid Case Management Program (MH CMCM), provides program and administrative oversight for the treatment activities of the assigned ACT Team. The Director is responsible for directing and supervising staff activities, leading team organizational and service planning meetings, providing clinical direction to staff regarding individual cases, and conducting side by side contacts with staff and regularly conducting individual supervision meetings. In addition, the Team Leader / Program Director is responsible for direct patient services as a member of the clinical staff, clinical supervision from staff and administration and leadership of the team on an ongoing basis. Monitors and controls personnel and fiscal resources to accomplish team, agency and program goals and for evaluating team programs. Establishes and maintains systems to ensure that program operations meet or exceed agency and regulatory guidelines, and that documentation and billing conform to all applicable targets, rules and regulations. Oversees the provision of crisis intervention services to recipients 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

List all essential job duties. (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with a disability to perform the essential duties unless this causes undue hardship to the agency.)

Provides Clinical Oversight to Team Members :

• Oversees intake and screening activities of case managers to ensure that service recipients are appropriate for enrollment in the program and that potential payers for services are identified.
• Supervises the assessment and reassessment activities of staff; ensuring that appropriate determinations and medical evaluations are made, that eligibility determinations, identification of gaps in service and assessment of service needs and strengths are performed with due consideration of the client’s social, ethnic, cultural, educational and spiritual strengths and needs.
• Supervises the development and implementation of comprehensive written case management and service coordination plans and ensures that they are maintained in a timely, accurate and complete manner and that they include consideration of the client’s cultural and ethnic background, customs, needs, beliefs, and primary language.
• Supervises case management staff in the provision of crisis intervention services; reviews crisis management plan and revisions of case management plan as appropriate.
• Assures that quality services, identified in the case management plan are delivered in a cost‑conscious manner, and that the client is satisfied with the services provided.
• Supervises the counseling and exit planning provided by case managers, and ensures that appropriate discharge planning is provided.
• Supervises the development of data, records and / or reports as requested and required by agency and / or regulatory policies.
• Immediately reports serious incidents, allegations of abuse, (including the reporting of child abuse or neglect), or sensitive situations and completes incident reports in accordance with applicable agency and regulatory policies.
• Regularly provides individual and group supervision, treatment team meetings, case conferences, in‑service training and other staff development activities.

Direct and Supervise Personnel :

Maintains Property Accountability :

Provides Quality Assurance Oversight :

Assures Fiscal Control and Accountability :

Fosters Community Relations :

ADDITIONAL TASKS :

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Master’s degree in social work, Psychology, nursing, rehabilitation counseling, or a related field and at least

four years of experience in providing direct services related to the treatment and recovery of persons with a serious mental illness. Two years of this experience must have involved : Supervisory or managerial experience for a mental health program or major mental health program component. Preference will be given to candidates with experience on a multi‑disciplinary team Must have a professional license issued by the NYS Education Department in the appropriate field.

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