Assistant Team Leader (LMSW, LCSW, LMHC)

  • Full-time

Company Description

The mission of CASES is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community.

  • We are committed to helping people—regardless of their past choices, present struggles, or future obstacles—to build the capacity and courage to change their lives.
  • We tailor our services to each individual’s unique needs, risks, and strengths and believe the most effective programs are evidence-based, family-focused, and trauma-informed.
  • We are committed to engaging the community by leveraging partnerships and resources to maximize our clients’ opportunities for success.

Our team:

We recognize that each CASES staff member is critical. We are a team strengthened by our diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents and united by a common purpose.

We are determined to continuously enhance our knowledge and skills, evaluate our results, and learn from our successes and failures.

Our impact on the community:

We believe public safety is best protected through alternatives to incarceration that combine accountability and support with empowerment and opportunity.

We are committed—through continuous innovation and the strategic disruption of ineffective responses to crime, addiction, and mental illness—to creating solutions for some of the city’s most difficult public safety and public health challenges.

Manhattan Supervised Release provides bail supervision services to individuals arrested in Manhattan for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies. Supervised participants are mandated to comply with release reporting conditions in the community and may seek voluntary help with connection to behavioral health treatment and a variety of community-based supports and services.

CASES seeks an Assistant Team Leader for its Pretrial Services Case Management Program. The Assistant Team Leader functions in a hybrid role which includes providing task supervision to a team Clinical/Case Coordinators, as well as, managing a limited caseload of high-risk participants who require a clinician with significant experience. The Assistant Team Leader will ensure participants receive services that are strengths-based, gender-specific, and culturally sensitive while adhering to the core principles of risk, need and responsivity to reduce recidivism, increase engagement in community treatment services and support participants to achieve their self-identified goals for treatment, recovery, rehabilitation, and crime-free community integration. This position is based in the respective borough pretrial office as well as with field work in the larger NYC community as needed to assist participants and support staff.

Reports to: Team Leader

Locations: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx

Job Description

  • Support the overall clinical and administrative operations of the community supervision, case management, peer support, health, and rehabilitation services
  • Manage a specialized caseload of program participants who present with significant behavioral health needs, co-morbid conditions and/or complex presentations requiring collaboration with various partner providers
  • Provide recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and gender-responsive services
  • Assess participant’s; immediate needs, legal circumstances, substance use, mental health, trauma, psychosocial, vocational, educational, and housing needs to complete assessments and develop service plans
  • Conduct outreach to families and significant others to gather collateral information for service planning
  • Use evidence-based counseling approaches to develop a rapport with participants and develop insight into specified need areas
  • Take leadership in management of high risk and complex care cases, including conducting direct work in the community and with other members of the team as needed to manage risk
  • Complete assessments, progress notes and program data reporting as required by program funders
  • Adhere to Supervised Release program protocols ensuring participants at higher risk for criminal recidivism and supervision failure receive intensive supervision
  • Support internal program auditing activities of progress notes, service referrals, service plans, discharge summaries and court reports with additional reinforcement during supervision
  • Complete electronic chart-keeping activities in accordance with confidentiality regulations and policies and procedures
  • Provide culturally competent and anti-discriminatory services in accordance with CASES policies
  • Supervise social work and peer intern students, where applicable

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree, Licensed (LMSW, LCSW, LMHC).
  •  At least two years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and those with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders.
  • Experience understanding family systems based on diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds
  • Experience understanding various evidence-based models and theories pertaining to psycho-education, motivational interviewing, serious mental illness and recovery
  • Highly organized and self-motivated
  • Fluency in Spanish preferred

Additional Information

Competitive salary, commensurate with experience

Full-time 35-hour week with excellent benefits

 Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

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