Children's Residential Programming Manager
The Jewish Board

Make a bigger difference

Programming Manager

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

PURPOSE:

The Children's Community Residences (OMH) programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff uses a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities. Our children's community residences are single site residence's 1 in Staten Island and 3 in the Bronx that provide a group living for eight children and/or adolescents. The program provides a supervised, trauma informed therapeutic environment which seeks to develop the resident's skills and capacity to live in the community and attend school/work as appropriate.

The Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) provides a transitional living environment for older youth who are ready to move towards independent living but could benefit from a supported environment to build the skills required to live independently. The SILP provides resources for youth aged 17 to 24 who are experiencing challenges as they transition to adulthood.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Programming Manager works with youth in the residential setting and is responsible fordeveloping programs which provide appropriate recreational activities for the youth. The development of such programs is based on the client's clinical, and socialization needs and is tailored to the client's ability to succeed in such programming. As an integral part of the treatment team, the Programming Manger provides feedback to the clinical staff regarding a client's needs and abilities and uses their feedback in tailoring appropriate recreational programs and activities. The program lead and Programming Manager will collaborate weekly around individual and house programming for youth, including but not limited to recreational activities, event planning and in program groups.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Oversees all aspects of programming for the program. This includes recreational activities, therapeutic activities, events, etc.
• Provides cultural and diverse programming for youth well-being.
• Facilitates psycho-educational groups with adolescents/ young adults, in collaboration with agency staff and external providers.
• Participates in treatment team meetings.
• Creates and provides weekly programming calendar and recreational opportunities in collaboration with the youth.
• Assists in training and supervising direct service professionals on strategies to engage and supervise youth in the program and during recreational activities.
• May be called upon to work one on one with a client who is displaying significant stress.
• Will successfully complete the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training (TCI) to prevent, intervene and perform a therapeutic hold on a youth who is presenting as an imminent risk to themselves and/or others. All employees are required to attend appropriate training prior to performing such a therapeutic hold.
• Successfully complete MAT training and subsequent recertification thus allowing them to provide prescribed medications to our youth in the absence of medical staff.
• Attend all mandatory meetings and trainings.
• Shares their assessment and observation of the youth with the treatment team and brings to the attention of the clinical staff and administration any issues/events of concern. Staff would also be required to complete proper reporting as required by the agency and regulatory bodies.
• Will be assigned the role of the LGBTQ point person with our regulatory body as well as within our organization in partnership with the Jewish Board's Bridging the Gap program.
• Required to perform shift leader responsibilities in the absence of the assigned shift leader.
• Required to manage volunteers, collaborate with the volunteer department as well as engage in community resources.
• Lead the Steering Committee that brainstorms and organizes special events at the program (i.e. graduations, monthly staff dinners, volunteer events with the youth, holidays and birthday celebrations).
• Complete documentation in MyAvatar and Connections as it relates to client's progression in programming, recreational activities, groups, and house meetings.
• Will completed the ACS LGBTQ Trainer the trainer course, will work with the Learning Department to conduct LGBTQ training within the Youth and Family Services Division
• Other duties as assigned.

Team Process:

• Participates in intakes, assessments, and discharge.

• Participates in regular staff meetings and trainings. May be asked to travel to offsite meetings and trainings.

Documentation:

• Complete Recreational Assessment for all youth.
• Create and provide follow up on incident reports as appropriate.
• Creating and updating the weekly recreational calendar for all programs.
• Completes regular and timely documentation of all resident interactions, including progress and informational notes in the respective electronic records.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• A self-starter and motivator.
• Willingness to work with children/adolescents and young adults living with the impact of trauma and experience mental health challenges.
• Compassion and respect for vulnerable individuals.
• Patience and understanding for the sometimes-slow process of stabilization and recovery.

• Excellent youth engagement skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Being Creative.
• Having excellent engagement skills with youth and community partners.

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree with 3 years' experience working with adolescents in residential treatment. Master's Degree in related field a plus .
• Experience working as a lead within a treatment model, with prior supervisory experience.
• Valid driver's license.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

• Some experience with youth in residential care or similar population.
• Some experience with Transitional age youth .

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office product, Outlook and Word.
• Aptitude for learning new systems and application software.

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:

• The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform data entry into various computer programs.
• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to travel independently using public transportation and/or vehicle.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:

• Travel in the community with residents via public transportation.
• Work in shared office space.
• Travel between boroughs.

If you join us, you'll have these great benefits:

• Generous time off in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

Other details

• Job Family Direct Care [200s]
• Job Function Managers
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator 8833 - Hospital - Professional Employees
• Min Hiring Rate $62,750.00

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