Purpose

The Assistant Director of Virginia Frank provides clinical and administrative management including day-to-day operations, staffing assignments, and facilitation of staff meetings. This position directly supervises clinical staff, runs the office when the Director is out of the office and may provide clinical services to an assigned caseload of clients.

Responsibilities

Clinical Supervision and Oversight

• Provides effective supervision and evaluates the case management and clinical treatment approaches of the professional clinical staff.
• Lead, coach, mentor, instruct, and performance manage clinical staff by providing orientation and ongoing training.
• Assumes full responsibility for the treatment of clients under their supervisees’ care.
• Leads weekly group supervision for clinical staff.

Administrative

• Facilitates recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of new employees.
• Makes recommendations for continuing or terminating employment of professional clinical staff.
• With the Sr. Director, screens/coordinates intakes and assigns new and transfer cases to professional clinical staff.
• Networks and supports engagement to execute contracts for Mental Health Consultation with early childhood professionals and organizations.
• Performs record keeping functions and other administrative duties as required by the Agency, including written treatment documentation within the required timeframes.
• Oversees administrative tasks related to assigned cases, i.e., case records, quality audits, case staffing, and case consultations.
• May provide services and billing under Medicaid Rule 132 as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) or Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA), dependent on qualifications.

Program Support

• Interprets Agency programs to other community agencies or groups.
• May provide Field Instruction to students.
• Participates in agency staff development programs, professional group seminars, committees, or conferences to increase professional knowledge.
• Helps develop and refine program policies and procedures.
• Collaborates with other agency personnel, supervisor, appropriate specialists, or consultants on specific case related problems and participates in weekly supervision.

Mental Health Therapy

• May provide a full range of clinical treatment for a caseload of clients, which could include individual adult, child, family, couple, and group treatment modalities.
• Within the context of critical thinking, gathers and analyzes data, completes assessments, and formulates treatment plans, and implements specified treatment.
• Develops and implements a discharge and transition plan for the client and family, when nearing completion of services.
• Provides Infant and early childhood mental health consultation and training.

Additional

• Represent JCFS and its programs in a positive manner to both internal and external contacts.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Traits

• Comfortable in a leadership role.
• Self-reflective; someone who takes an active role in appraising own responses and reactions.
• Flexible; able to take varied perspectives and think critically.
• Efficient and effective organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrates managerial acumen.
• Independent with demonstrated use of sound judgement.
• Demonstrated decision making capacity in a variety of situations
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly collaborative and able to develop strong relationships with a variety of people

Decision Making Authority

• Makes independent work decisions after Sr. Director provides overview of end result. Has discretion in determining how the work gets done. Develops complex solutions to problems.

Key Interactions

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field for an accredited college.
• Clinical state licensure in the clinician’s discipline, e.g. LCSW or LCPC.
• Four or more years of direct clinical practice. 3 or more years of post-clinical license experience preferred.
• Supervisory or administrative experience required.
• Able to work evenings based on client and program needs.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

• This position requires visits to locations in the Chicago metropolitan area which may or may not be accessible by public transportation. Valid Illinois driver’s license, a safe driving record, and regular access to a reliable, insured vehicle is required.

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