Assistant Director, Permanency Services

3 weeks ago

Pleasantville, New Jersey, United States JCCA Full time
Job Summary

JCCA is seeking an experienced and dedicated professional to serve as the Assistant Director, Permanency. This critical role will provide leadership, supervision, and guidance to program staff, ensuring the mission and core values are incorporated into daily operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the early engagement of families, provision of concurrent planning and aftercare services, and monitoring issues associated with service delivery.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure the mission and core values are incorporated in the day-to-day function of staff, focusing on excellence in practice utilizing a Family Centered and Strength-Based model of approach.
  • Ensure the early engagement of families and the provision of concurrent planning and aftercare services, and monitor issues associated with service delivery.
  • Track and ensure consistent program compliance with JCCA, ACS, DSS, OCFS, and Federal policies, mandates, and procedures.
  • Responsible for program performance and statistically tracked deliverables.
  • Prioritize and track performance related to permanency by driving the discharge of youth through reunification, adoption, adult housing, and other safe options.
  • Participate in the inter-division and interdisciplinary process to identify foster parent resources, youth matching process, and successfully step youth down into a less restrictive level of care.
  • Provide leadership, team building, supervision, training, evaluation, and retention of supervisees.
  • Responsible for the administration and oversight of the therapeutic treatment provision, case planning, and management components of the services provided to youth and their families.
  • Partner with the Assistant Directors of Child Care to ensure synchrony of programming between Childcare and Social Work teams.
  • Collaborate with the interdisciplinary leads to ensure integrated provision of therapeutic services that meet the needs of the youth on campus and their families.
  • Represent JCCA at ACS and stakeholder meetings, with community partners, and agency donors.
  • Oversee implementation and drive performance of managed care, Families First, and other initiatives.
  • Provide direct supervision and ensure compliance in the management of grants (e.g., Wendy's Wonderful Kids).
  • Participate in the development and growth of program philosophy and practice.
  • Provide crisis management and intervention as needed.
  • Facilitate meetings within the program, with clients, and outside stakeholders.
  • Participate in the campus intake process, including review of referrals, interviewing prospective residents, etc.
  • Collaborate and liaise with child welfare agencies, courts, hospitals, community agencies, and other governing and oversight systems.
  • Timely review and approval of all required paperwork, including FASPs, MHCU, permanency hearing reports, CCS21+ applications, CAPS, community referrals, and more.
  • Responsible for ensuring timely entry of all supervisory documentation responsibilities (Connections and EHR notes, supervisory notes, and more).
  • Perform regular case record reviews to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
Requirements
  • Master's degree in social work required; licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) preferred; licensed master's social worker (LMSW) is required; must obtain provisional LCSW within 60 days of becoming eligible and obtain LCSW before provisional license expires.
  • Previous experience in mental health or healthcare settings, supporting the needs of a 365/24/7 facility, preferably in residential.
  • Two years of supervisory experience in foster care, residential, or community-based youth programs.
  • Knowledge of core principles and standards for foster care and child welfare systems.
  • An understanding of the impacts of institutional and structural racism on the child welfare system and in underserved communities.
  • Ability to plan, assign, and direct subordinate personnel in a manner conducive to productive performance.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with teams that are culturally and professionally diverse.
  • Proficient with MS Office, with the ability to learn new technology platforms.
  • Strong knowledge/experience with ACS and OCFS and managed care requirements.
  • Strong clinical skills and strength-based perspective.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
About JCCA

For 200 years, JCCA has sustained its mission of serving vulnerable children and families in need throughout New York. JCCA is one of the oldest, most distinguished child and family service organizations in the nation, with a reputation and name recognition that is widely known.

Our programs include foster and residential care, educational assistance and remediation, case management for young people with mental health challenges, and services to families to prevent child abuse and maltreatment. JCCA offers safety, stability, and lifesaving support to help our clients transform their lives.

JCCA offers a collaborative work environment where interdisciplinary teams foster one another's professional growth through peer learning and support. Intensive staff supervision and trainings are the foundation for the provision of the highest quality mental health and child welfare services to children and families.

JCCA complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which JCCA has facilities. Visit our website: www.jccany.org

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