Assistant Clinical Director-CCBHC Macari Operations LCSW

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.  

Essential Functions:

• 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.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with audit, quality assurance and quality improvement activities.
• Bilingual in one or more of the following: Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Bengali and others, may be required depending on client needs

Job Behavioral Expectations:

• Maintain regular, consistent, and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance, and adherence to relevant health & safety procedures.
• Safe and successful performance, including meeting productivity standards.
• Maintain an understanding of the principles, methods, and processes needed to perform the job. Attends staff meetings, seminars and in-service training as assigned.
• Demonstrates the ability to complete work in an acceptable manner by the time and/or date established with accuracy, neatness and thoroughness and minimal amount of errors.
• Maintain established departmental policies and procedures including maintain strict confidentiality and adherence to all HIPAA guidelines at all times.
• Position may require evenings and Saturday hours. The work schedule is subject to change according to the clinic operation needs and is determined based on employee’s ability to meet job requirements and expectations.

Schedule:

• Monday- Friday  Hybrid ( 2 Evenings Required)

The Child Center of NY is an Equal Opportunity Employer.   All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status or any other category protected by Federal, State or local law.  EOE M/F/D/V

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