Supervising Team Leader (LMSW,LMHC,LCSW) Critical Time Intervention

Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is a new initiative that will serve adults with serious mental illness involved in the NYC justice system that experience homelessness and repeat arrests and short jail sentences. The program will provide a comprehensive harm reduction approach assisting participants to obtain overall health and well-being through engagement in coordinated services and supportive housing. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a small and specialized team with a case manager and a peer specialist, using creative and intensive person-centered approaches to support participant engagement in nine months of time-limited CTI mobile evidence-based services.

CASES seeks a team leader who is passionate about developing and leading our CTI services and staff by 1) managing the administration of CTI services as well as 2) being directly involved in service delivery and maintaining a small caseload. The ideal candidate is one who has a desire to be involved at all levels; on the ground as well as administratively and wants to advance meaningful social justice by employing the best solutions for justice-involved participants to experience recovery and community-living.

• Lead a small team in providing direct services that follow the Critical Time Intervention (CTI) model and simultaneously deliver direct CTI service for a small caseload of participants
• Run team meetings and supervision consistent with CTI evidence-based standards
• Develop and implement systems to recruit eligible participants enrolled in the newSTART misdemeanor alternative-to-incarceration (ATI) program into the voluntary CTI program
• Coach and supervise staff in the effective use of motivational interviewing, trauma-informed and harm-reduction recovery approaches
• Facilitate a culture that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities in the CTI team and throughout CASES
• Oversee staff training, staff development and performance
• Foster conversational led engagement, assessment, and service planning approaches as the main strength-based method to work collaboratively with participants
• Develop a network of treatment, housing, vocational, and social service formal providers and informal recovery supports
• Promote culturally competent and anti-discriminatory services ensuring participants receive equitable and just services regardless of race, ethnicity, gender status, sexual orientation, primary language, age, nationality and previous criminal justice history and behavior
• Advance quality documentation to support continuous program improvements, data reporting and program evaluation
• Provide thought leadership when collaborating with program partners, Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Center for the Advancement of CTI and the CTI Workgroup to advance the program’s implementation and evaluation plans
• Other duties as required by director and supervisory staff
• Flexibility and sense of humor!

• NYS LMSW/LCSW or LMHC with at least 2 years of supervisory experience working with homeless people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
• Proficiency in Critical Time Intervention model preferred
• Competence in motivational interviewing
• Experience delivering mobile service in the community
• Knowledge of NYC criminal justice system and alternatives to incarceration programs, a plus
• Proficiency is Spanish preferred

Salary: Competitive compensation, commensurate with experience

Full-time 35-hour week with excellent benefits

Additional information:

In one document, please attach (1) a cover letter in PDF or Word format, discussing your interest in the position (2) your resume/cv. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.