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We are
seeking a Director of our Mental Health Services to provide
oversight and leadership to Aldea Counseling Services
(ACS). ACS provides a wide array of services to children,
adolescents, and their families. Services range from prevention
to intervention in cases of childhood abuse and neglect, mental
illness, and adjustment to family stress. The program's priority
is to assist, support, and strengthen our community’s children
and families. We provide services in our clinics in Napa and
Fairfield, and at school sites throughout Napa County.
Director’s
key responsibilities include:
Oversee
the management of Aldea Counseling Services
clinics. This includes:
· Management
of individual, family and group therapeutic services clients
according to quality and ethical standards.
· Ensure
clinical soundness of services offered through ongoing
monitoring and evaluation of all program staff, including those
offering clinical supervision. Working with Clinical
Supervisors, plan and implement clinical and therapeutic case
reviews and supervision in accordance with BBS requirements.
Maintain an appropriate client and family intake and assessment
system for individuals and families and appropriate assignment
of cases to therapists.
· Ensure
programs meet agreed budgets. Provide input on structure of
services and reimbursements for all contracts and manage
delivery of services to meet the contractual performance and
fiscal commitments. In addition, develop capability to identify
and monitor outcomes of client services.
· Participate
in ongoing opportunities for improving and growing client
services according to community needs, emerging trends and
patterns of best practice clinical treatment and available
funding sources. Actively manage relationships with Napa County
Health and Human Services and other community agencies and
represent the program and agency by proactively participating in
the appropriate settings and meetings.
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Ensure that all required records meet compliance standards and
are maintained securely, including client files and general
client statistics for planning and billing purposes and input to
the agency database. Ensure smooth functioning of client
reception, handling of appointments and neat, functional
premises.
· Hiring,
development and performance management of program staff,
including participating in some clinical supervision activities.
· Provide
oversight, agency leadership and clinical coordination of
services with the Program Director of A.D.A.P.T.
· Provide
guidance, oversight, agency leadership and coordination of
services to the Program Manager of Solano Parent Network.
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Provide oversight and agency leadership to the Program Director
of Supported Living Services. While separate from the
outpatient services clinics, maintain sufficient awareness of
these services and provide regular connection to the SLS
leadership team to make them part of the overall Aldea
family of programs.
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Maintain a schedule of individual meetings and regular staff
meetings to ensure that all agency and program news is
appropriately cascaded and that provide opportunities for you to
interact with all levels of staff.
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Develop and foster in staff an awareness of the community,
county agencies and relationships with other non-profit service
providers and importance of working collaboratively while
highlighting the distinctive differences in Aldea
services.
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Participate in agency-wide activities such as agency leadership
meetings, agency clinical supervision team, some Board of
Directors meetings, acting both to report on and represent your
programs but also on behalf of the agency as a whole.
Coordinate operational activities with Aldea
administrative staff.
Qualifications:
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Master's degree from an accredited or state approved graduate
school in social work (MSW) or relevant Master’s level program.
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Current LCSW or MFT license in the State of California.
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5+ years experience in people and program management in the
mental health field; and +5 years as a clinician/therapist,
preferably working with children.
The
successful candidate will possess:
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A
current and forward-looking understanding of child welfare
systems and juvenile court services.
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Knowledge of child development and family systems.
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Excellent leadership and communication skills and demonstrated
ability to motivate a team as well as the desire and ability to
participate at the executive team level for the agency as a
whole.
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Understanding of and sensitivity and responsive to serving
culturally diverse populations.
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