Clinical Supervisor
The Jewish Board

Make a bigger difference

Clinical Supervisor

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

PURPOSE:

The Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) provides a transitional living environment for older youth who are ready to move towards independent living but could benefit from a supported environment to build the skills required to live independently. The SILP provides resources for youth aged 17 to 24 who are experiencing challenges as they transition to adulthood.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Clinical Supervisor has clinical and administrative responsibility for a residential program unit, under the supervision and direction of the Director. The Supervisor is responsible for carrying a small caseload, supervising clinical staff, ensuring the provision of psychotherapeutic, psychiatric and case management services for residents, overseeing administrative processes, and participating in various administrative and team conferences.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):

• Provide weekly clinical supervision to case planners and case managers
• Teach and monitor supervisee's screening, assessment and monitoring of all safety related concerns with residents
• Ensure that case planners oversee provision of all counseling, vocational/educational, psychiatric and recreational services to residents
• Ensure case managers are completing required home visits and face to face contacts with resources
• Ensure case managers are presenting the agency professionally and responsibly at criminal and/or family court hearings
• Meet with assigned residents for weekly sessions, engage and remain in contact with their parents, ensure that home visits are completed, vocational/educational, psychiatric, recreational services provided and address any safety and risk concerns
• Assist supervisees in engaging families in planning for services and complying with ACS outreach requirements
• Assist supervisees as necessary, in identifying and providing access to specific concrete services and community resources
• Advocate, as necessary, with external resources such as mental health providers, treatment facilities, FCLS, community members, etc on behalf of residents
• Attend family court hearings when additional support is requested
• Assist in the development and implementation of specialized groups related to the needs of residents and their families
• Attend conferences at ACS offices and other community-based meetings.
• Attend ACS and JB trainings as required.
• Participates in internal and external continuous quality improvement projects.
• Make reports to State Central Registry or Justice Center as needed.
• Complete all other duties as needed and requested
• Participate in training and implementation of the Integrated Treatment Model (ITM)

Team Process

• Lead or co-lead, and attend all group supervisions, treatment team meetings, family treatment conferences, transfer conferences, incident review meetings, ITM planning meetings and administrative meetings
• Work jointly with medical, DSPs, psychiatric and vocational/educational departments to ensure provision of services to residents

Documentation

• Teach, revise, and ensure accurate and timely completion of all clinical documents under the responsibility of clinical staff, included and not limited to, progress notes, treatment plans, transitional plans, safety plans, court updates, etc.
• Review and ensure completion of accurate and timely Family Assessment Service Plan Reports (FASP) and Permanency Hearing Reports (PHR)
• Ensure completion and review of agency internal Incident Reports in Alltrac system.
• Complete progress notes in CONNECTIONS and MyAvatar, as well as review those of supervisee's
• Maintain weekly supervision notes and complete all supervisee's evaluations in a timely fashion
• Complete ACS Connections monthly supervisory reviews for all residents

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

• Team player
• Function from a strength-based approach with residents, supervisees, and colleagues
• Utilize coaching approach with residents, supervisees, and colleagues
• Able to show respect and compassion for residents, supervisees, and colleagues
• Able to function under stressful situations
• Able to see crisis through resolution of incidents
• Able to prioritize and organize
• Display initiative and consistency in practice
• Display strong engagement skills
• Has strong verbal and written skills
• Able to pay attention to details
• Open to learning new tasks

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED (List all that is required to achieve this position):

• Licensed Masters level degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related field.
• Evening hours are required, on occasion.

Additional Qualifications Needed:

• Driver's License

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):

• Microsoft Office
• Connections (preferred)
• Ability to learn Electronic Health Record (MyAvatar)

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:

• Group home setting
• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) training to be provided
• CPR training to be provided
• NARCAN training to be provided
• Ability to walk up and down stairs

If you join us, you'll have these great 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

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

Other details

• Job Family Clinical Staff [300s]
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator 8810 - Clerical Office Employees NOC
• Min Hiring Rate $85,500.00

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