Program Director; Functional Family Therapy

Overview

Salary: $85,000 - $95,000/yr

Position Summary: The Functional Family Therapy (FFT) Program Director in the Family Assessment Program (FAP) Program provides administrative supervision to three (3) FFT Supervisors. The Program Director is responsible for ensuring that the FFT teams in the Bronx and multi-borough program Manhattan/Staten Island meets all ACS accountability mandates to ensure positive outcomes on all ACS measurements. The Program Director also serves as the main point of contact with the FFT consultant and is responsible for ensuring that the team meets all of the fidelity measures and outcomes set forth by FFT.

In addition, this position is responsible for ensuring the FFT program is compliant with Children’s Aid policies, procedures, and is aligned with the mission of Children’s Aid and the Division’s goals and strategic priorities. Directors are required to ensure that interactions involving staff and clients are trauma informed.

FFT is a therapeutic program in our preventive continuum of services. It is a home-based intensive therapeutic model for families with multiple risk factors. Services are offered in the home to families with substantiated physical abuse and/or neglect of a child or young person 17 or under. This model addresses child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, mental illness, school difficulties, and history of out-of-home care or involvement with the child protection system.

A central component of the program is engaging with the family’s broader social environment and developing each family’s social and community networks.

• Understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Provide Administrative and Clinical oversight of the FFT model/site program and staff.
• In addition to the 3 supervisors, the Director supervises the Multiborough Administrative Assistant and Educational Employment Specialists for Multiborough and Bronx teams.
• Collaborates with the CQI to improve program practice and key performance indicators and outcomes by conducting monthly case record reviews and reviewing CQI Utilization dashboard and Monthly Performance Reports.
• Provide weekly coaching, trauma informed supervision and professional development to supervisors.
• Promote self-care and healthy work-life balance activities. Maintain positive work environment to support productivity and staff retention.
• Ensure that the program complies with ACS accountability mandates which result in excellent ratings on Performance Evaluation (VENDEX), OCFS and PAMS reviews.
• Maintain utilization expectations to satisfy performance-based funding requirements for sustainable funding. Ensure ongoing outreach activities in the community in order to attain required 20% utilization from self-referrals as required by contracts
• Director of the multi borough program has to maintain regular presences in both Manhattan and Staten Island sites in order to ensure consistent operation of program at both sites.
• Responsible for administrative aspects of ACS accountability systems including PROMIS & CNNX
• To supplement QA oversight, conduct review of case records, monitor Child Not Seen, Supervisor Monthly Reviews, FASP Timeliness Reports and PROMIS and CONNX entries, to ensure compliance and best practice.
• May be required to function in the role of Supervisor and/or carry a caseload or perform other duties due to Supervisor and/or Therapist or other staff vacancies.
• Act as liaison with ACS (Office of Program Planning and Policy (OPPP)), FAP, Community based Initiatives, Referral Management, Family Team Conferencing and DCP staff in regard to audits, training on the models, and other inter-agency matters.
• Become familiar with FFT model fidelity standards and its child welfare practice implications. Ensure that practice is delivered in a culturally sensitive manner that also adheres to model fidelity.
• Collaborate with other Children’s Aid (CA) Prevention Program Directors to develop policies, procedures that are uniform across similar models/programs.
• Arrange and coordinate external and internal training. Ensure scheduling of…