Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Position: Director, FSP Downtown
Department: Mental Health
Reports to: Senior Director, Mental Health
Oversees: Program Managers
Location: Wellness Center, 345 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, California 90013
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm
Status: Full-Time, Exempt, Management
Benefits : Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Retirement Planning (403b), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), etc.
Summary:
The Director, FSP Downtown will oversee the Service Area 4 FSP contract. The Director will monitor contracts to ensure SA 4 FSP programming is providing high-quality services that meet or exceed required contract, funder, and agency standards. The Director, FSP Downtown will also provide clinical supervision for direct practice clinicians, when appropriate and necessary. This position is responsible for maintaining the efficiency of operations while fostering teamwork among staff and across departments and programs and reports to the Senior Director, FSP.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. In collaboration with supervisor, monitor all administrative aspects of agency’s Department of Mental Health (DMH) contracted FSP SA 4 program, including billing and contract maximization in compliance with contract goals and outcomes in a timely manner.
2. Complete required reporting to funders as outlined by contract requirements
3. Ensure all clinical and mental health staff documentation and data collection is complete, timely, accurate, and current in agency records and electronic databases
4. Provide individual and group clinical supervision for clinicians and document according to Board of Behavioral Sciences or Board of Psychology standards, when appropriate and necessary
5. Provide individual and team supervision, support, and performance evaluations for all assigned staff
6. Assist in recruitment, selection, training, supervision, and evaluation of direct service staff
7. Collaborate with Quality Assurance to ensure proper staff orientation, training and audit preparedness for all clinical and mental health contracts
8. Ensure adherence to funding source contract and performance standards
9. Maintain a current, thorough knowledge of community resources and utilize these to provide services to clients
10. Collaborate with other providers, both internally and outside of the department in order to ensure agency clients receive continuity of care.
11. Effectively represent agency at funding partner or collaborative meetings
Qualifications:
1. Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or PhD/PsyD in Psychology. Registered with the Board of Behavioral Sciences or Board of Psychology.
2. Required certification and two years’ full-time, post-graduate experience providing supervision to treatment teams, interns, and/or ASWs preferred
3. Outstanding clinical review skills
4. Strong training, project management, and team-building skills
5. Able to behave with sensitivity, tact, politeness and responsiveness with staff and clients
6. Detail oriented with excellent time management, organizational, written, verbal, interpersonal, presentation, and computer skills
7. Knowledge of ACT model implementation, housing first and harm reduction methodologies.
8. Experience providing administrative and clinical supervision
9. Experience working with people living with mental illness and/or substance abuse
10. Contract and quality assurance experience
11. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and database applications
12. Bilingual Spanish is a plus
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Valid and current California Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist or Licensed Clinical Psychologist in good standing with licensing board
Work Environment:
1. Primarily indoor office and field environment
2. On occasion walk or drive to different local sites
3. Regularly required to sit, stand, bend and occasionally lift or carry up to 15 pounds
4. May necessitate working in busy and loud environments
5. May be exposed to elements like cold, heat, dust, noise, and odor
6. May need to bend, stoop, twist, and sit throughout the day
EXPECTED BEHAVIORS OF ALL STAFF
- Act as a role model
- Demonstrate a sense of responsibility
- Continuously learn and improve
- Acknowledge your own areas of improvement
- Hear and provide honest, specific and direct feedback
- Create an environment where everyone is welcomed valued and respected
Equal Opportunity Employer
The People Concern is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to non-discrimination in employment. We select the most qualified individual for the job basedon job-related qualifications regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, disability, ancestry, marital status, credit history, sexual orientation, arrest and court record, genetic information, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state or other applicable laws.
About the People Concern
The People Concern empowers the most vulnerable among us to rebuild their lives. One of Los Angeles County’s largest social services agencies, The People Concern was formed in 2016 in a merger of two trusted social service organizations based in Los Angeles County, OPCC and Lamp Community. Informed by more than fifty-eight years of work in the community, The People Concern is a leading provider of, and advocate for, evidence-based solutions to the multi-faceted challenges inherent in homelessness and domestic violence.
With compassion and profound respect for those we serve, we provide a fully integrated system of care – including outreach, interim housing, mental and medical health care, substance abuse services, domestic violence services, life skills & wellness programs, and permanent supportive housing – tailored to the unique needs of homeless individuals, survivors of domestic violence, challenged youth, and others who have nowhere else to turn.
The People Concern’s model of integrated and comprehensive care empowers our participants to navigate the multi-faceted obstacles in their lives, become their best selves, and ultimately, connect with and contribute to their communities.
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Retirement Planning (403b) & Matching
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation Days
- Paid Sick Days
- Employee Assistance Plans (EAP)
- TELUS Health
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Basic Life / Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Voluntary Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Voluntary Pet Insurance
- Discounts on Hotels, Theme Parks, Concerts, Movies, Restaurants & More
- The People Concern University & Certificates