HS Program Director

Overview

Program Director 

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A nationally recognized comprehensive Health and Human Services Agency, with over 60 programs across New York City and greater New York Area.

Samaritan Daytop Village, serves over 33,000 New Yorkers annually within your neighborhoods and communities so our success depends on those we employ.

The Role

Under general direction of the Vice-President, The Program Director is responsible for the overall clinical management and administrative operations of the assigned program. The Program Director is responsible for managing and monitoring the job performance of all program employees; assuring the quality of clinical services provided to persons served and the communications between program employees and agency administration.

The Program Director will coordinate clinical coverage, provide supervision to staff, provides on-call and oversight as needed in facility or clinical emergencies. This work is carried out in support of the mission and goals of Samaritan Daytop Village.

Responsibilities

What You Will Do

• Serves as administrative lead to ensure smooth day to day operations of the clinic and ensure interpersonal relationships remain positive.
• Monitors quality, effectiveness and efficiency of program’s clinical services and safety of environment of care. Oversight of clinical operations, including but not limited to, program evaluation and monitoring of outcomes; adjusting treatment programming based on patient needs; initiating new programming based on changes in addiction treatment landscape.
• Manages program services, improves existing services and develops new treatment components to meet needs of persons served.
• Helps develop, implement and deploy agency policy and procedures.
• Provides clinical and administrative supervision to program staff.
• Interviews, hires, trains, appraises, disciplines and may terminate subordinate staff.
• Provides administrative supervision for program operations; ensures a safe and secure environment of care.
• Ensures clinical staff maintains accurate, complete and timely records that comply with regulatory standards and agency internal policy and procedure.
• Ensures that all program staff upholds the agency's Code of Conduct/Code of Ethics and comply with all Federal, state and local law/regulation, including 42 CFR confidentiality and HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

Qualifications

Who You Will Be

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or other Human Services field and at least Three (3) years of full-time clinical work experience in the substance use disorder field, preferably within an Opioid Treatment Program, at least One (1) year of which must be supervisory;
• AND
• OASAS CASAC certification as an Advanced Counselor (if individual is not a licensed NYSED Qualified Health Professional, QHP);
• AND
• OASAS Clinical Supervision Foundations I & II (30 hours): Successful completion required by all Advanced and Master Level CASACs within one year of hire date;
• OR
• A licensed NYSED Qualified Health Professional (QHP) with licensure as LMSW or LMHC or LCSW and at least Three (3) years of full-time clinical work experience in the substance use disorder field, preferably within an Opioid Treatment Program, at least One (1) year of which must be supervisory.
• Available to work a flexible schedule as needed in response to program and staff needs.
• Computer literacy including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and EHR.
• Ability to work under pressure with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient records.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Team player and ability to work independently. Possession of strong time management, writing and communication skills.
• Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills; ability to supervise, coach, mentor, develop, train and teach substance use providers/other clinical discipline providers.
• Ability to implement and monitor policy and procedure in accordance with agency guidelines.
• Knowledge of federal and state law/regulation governing substance abuse treatment, including confidentiality, security and privacy of protected health information.
• Knowledge of OASAS, Joint Commission, CARF, and CSAT guidance.