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The Bridge · 1 day ago

Assistant Program Director - ACT Team

Bronx, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$75K/yr - $75K/yr

3+ years exp

The Bridge Inc. is a leading organization focused on providing recovery-oriented services to individuals with serious mental illness. The Assistant Director of the ACT Team plays a vital role in delivering comprehensive care, conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and supervising team members while ensuring effective communication and documentation.

Health CareMental HealthOutpatient CareRehabilitationResidential

Responsibilities

Completing comprehensive assessment updated six-month assessments using results from administration of standardized screening instruments for substance use, suicidality, and trauma

Completing crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans

Identifying the treatment services consumers should receive based on severity of substance use diagnosis, stage of change, immediate needs and recommending treatment objectives for the consumer’s treatment plan

Assessing and providing services to consumers to address housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care needs

Completing comprehensive recovery-oriented initial treatment plans and 6-month treatment plan reviews and modifying the plan in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others

Involving social supports in the consumer’s treatment with the ACT/FACT team

Completing progress notes within 24-hours of service delivery and ensure progress notes are available to be read in the morning organizational meeting

Providing treatment services including engagement, problem-solving, wellness self-management, medication support, family support and treatment, individual mental health, relapse prevention, harm reduction and substance use counseling based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral responses to mental illness and substance use

Working effectively with community providers to ensure ACT/FACT members are receiving all services for which they are entitled

Completing expected minimum monthly treatment contacts each month

Providing weekly reports to AOT staff for consumers with AOT orders

Assist Program Director in managing case load, provide supervision of staff

Serving as the administrative and clinical leader of the team in the absence of the Director

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Master's DegreeLicensure in Social WorkMental Health CounselingSupervisory ExperienceSpanish speakingCrisis InterventionRelapse PreventionHarm Reduction CounselingWellness Self-Management