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Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States

-Promotion from Residential Program Manager position.-Provide supervision to Residential Program Managers.-Provide guidance, assistance, and immediate feedback to team regarding work performance.-Ensure follow through of issues identified in supervision and treatment team meetings.-Function as a manager to specific programs while ensuring daily operation and working with the team to achieve stated program's goals and objectives.-Facilitate and participate in general staff meetings, clinical meetings, treatment team meetings, and assigned special project committees.-Oversee the treatment planning process for the county and ensure the process meets the state regulations and agency requirements.-Act as a treatment-planning consultant to devise treatment approaches for challenging consumers.-Provide ongoing training and supervision to educate staff about crisis prevention and intervention while identifying alternatives to hospitalization.-Assist the team with providing case management and face-to-face services as needed.-Take the lead on developing positive relationships with other community providers to ensure that our consumers are receiving the services they need.-Meet with hospital and community referrals to assess appropriateness for agency, complete intake and comprehensive assessment.-Assist with recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of new staff.-Identify staff education needs and develop/provide appropriate trainings.-Monitor and record program statistics and oversee program compliance.

-Promotion from Residential Senior Counselor position.-Clinical supervisor to a team of 14 counselors.-Provide monthly supervision, yearly evaluations, and ongoing trainings for counselors.-Caseload of 15 consumers.-Lead weekly treatment team meetings with counselors and bring information back to weekly clinical meetings.-Assess consumer's care needs and develop individual recovery plans.-Ongoing care involving the supervision of consumer activities of daily living, provision of community resources, crisis intervention services, and counseling services.-Aid consumers with advocacy, community linkages, and other areas of daily self-sufficiency.-Document all observations, related to consumer progress, within the clinical record in a timely and accurate manner.

-Promotion from Residential Counselor position.-Includes all responsibilities as Residential Counselor as well as supervising and leading a team of five counselors.-Provide monthly supervision and yearly evaluations for each counselor.-Assist clinical supervisor in leading weekly treatment team meetings.-Create and rearrange schedules to meet the needs of the site and consumers.-Plan and organize staff responsibilities.

-Provide direct behavioral health care services to the consumers: supervision, transportation, support and recovery counseling, and crisis intervention.-Responsible for assisting in the implementation of the treatment plan.-Work with consumers on their daily and independent living skills.-Accompany consumers to psychiatric and medical appointments.-Communicate all significant changes in consumer behavior level and notable incidents to the appropriate team leader and document pertinent information in their client chart.-Document observations, information and services provided to the consumer in progress notes.-Medication monitoring.-Act as a liaison between the consumer and community resources.-Being an advocate for the consumer when they are unable to be one for themselves.-Provide educational and vocational counseling.

-Provided individual and group counseling to elementary school students.-Run lunch bunches and classroom lessons in areas important to students such as divorce, self-esteem, study skills, friendship, anger management, anxiety, social skills, etc.

Provided individual and group counseling to students in the Passport and EOF programs, specifically to those students who are on high alert or academic probation.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Counselor Education/School Counseling And Guidance Services

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology