Job Details
Job Location
Chicago – 1100 W Cermak B414 – Chicago, IL
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Graduate Degree
Salary Range
$55,000.00 – $65,000.00 Salary/year
Travel Percentage
Negligible
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Position Summary:
Person in this position will be responsible for clinical and programmatic leadership of all recovery home programming in the region and the partnership with CCHHS through the COSSAP grant. This person will assist with program development, performance improvement, and training for all services delivered. Essential job functions include those listed below.
Essential Job Functions:
- Assist the regional vice president and management staff with the partnership between CCH and all Learning and Action (LAN) partners to pilot a harm reduction-oriented, low-barrier recovery home for women in recognition of the many barriers to recovery faced by the justice-involved population with substance use disorders.
- Develop and monitor the development of policy and client manuals for programs.
- Improve programs designs by ensuring the implementation of Performance Improvement (PI) standards, evaluations, and outcome measures.
- Prepare and deliver mandatory training required by contracts and licensure.
- Assist in grant planning and budgeting and the initiation of potential additional funding opportunities as required.
- Actively participate in the LAN meetings over the three years of the grant.
- Participate regularly in project update meetings with CCH to finalize pilot plans and monitor implementation.
- Support the launch and operation of the recovery home pilot.
- Assist in the development of staffing patterns. Hire, supervise, and train staff. Conduct regular individual and group clinical supervision with appropriate staff.
- Communicate areas of improvement or concern to program directors and ensure that staff are trained in trauma-informed care, gender-specific practices, and motivational interviewing.
- Provide ongoing supervision of recovery home after opening.
- Coordinate facility and maintenance activities, adhering to the standards of the accrediting body and other regulatory agencies.
- Assist with meeting the appropriate zoning requirements.
- Review and aggregate clinical data and outcomes to identify clinical trends and provide analysis to the program directors and regional vice president.
- Make good-faith efforts to coordinate recovery home/transitional housing for all individuals referred from CCH. Placement may occur at WestCare Illinois recovery housing or through partners.
- Participate in the COSSAP CapMan pilot project for recovery homes, including the tracking of reasons for unsuccessful referrals and linkages to better understand client needs and gaps in the recovery home environment.
- Provide a final report outlining recommendations for ongoing harm reduction-oriented, low-barrier recovery housing, including addressing current gaps in the available recovery housing landscape, summarizing barriers and facilitators to such housing, and discussing sustainability.
- Participate in program evaluation activities led by Chestnut Health/Lighthouse Institute.
- By the 5th of the month, submit monthly reports of progress on grant deliverables, number of patients referred for recovery home placement, number successfully placed, and invoices reflecting time and effort for the month prior to CCH team. At least quarterly, the report shall include a summary of facilitators and barriers to implementation and a summary of challenges to successful recovery home placement.
- Embrace and embody the mission, vision, guiding principles, clinical vision, and goals of WestCare Foundation.
- Perform any other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications:
Certifications/Licenses:
- Clinical Certification, must:
- Hold clinical certification as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor from the Illinois Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA), or
- Be a licensed professional counselor or licensed clinical professional counselor pursuant to the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing Act [225 ILCS 107]; or
- Be licensed as a social worker or licensed clinical social worker pursuant to the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act [225 ILCS 20]; some positions require Mental Illness and Substance Abuse (MISA) certified, with demonstrated clinical assessment skills and two professional experience counseling recovering addicts or five years professional experience counseling substance abusers in a licensed substance abuse treatment program treating abusers with co-occurring disorders. The organization, position, and dates in which counseling experience was acquired must be specified. Some positions require bi-lingual skills (Spanish) and experience with intake duties
- Sign, and adhere to, a professional code of ethics developed by the organization.
- Training:
- Must complete required continuing education hours as required to maintain certification or licensure.
Education:
- Masters or bachelors degree preferred; high school diploma required; and equivalent experience in counseling, social work rehabilitation, or a related field or comparable years of qualifying experience.
Experience and Competencies:
- Extensive experience in program coordination and training
- Experience with Managed Care and ensuring that clinical operations comply with Medicaid and SUPR guidelines and NARR standards and policies
- Must have 7 years of experience in supervision and management
- Experience with accreditation agencies preferred
- Excellent teaching and training skills
- Must be highly organized, detail focused, and have excellent time management
- Must possess strong computer skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to pass background check
- Ability to obtain and maintain DCFS CANTS clearance
- Ability to pass pre-employment drug screening
- Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Adherence to the highest standard of ethical conduct, especially to standards governing confidentiality
- Must have professional appearance and demeanor
- Must be culturally/linguistically sensitive to populations served
- Ability to obtain and maintain CPR certification, first aid certification, and an annual tuberculosis test
Working Conditions:
- Work is primarily performed in an institutional or professional setting.
- Local, regional, and out-of-state travel, including overnight stays.
Essential Physical and Mental Demands of the Job
The employee must be able to perform the following essential duties and activities with or without accommodation:
Physical Demands:
- Requires mobility and physical activity: Having an adequate range of body motion and mobility to work in an office, residential, or outdoor environment including standing and walking (even and uneven surfaces), sitting for extended periods of time, bending, twisting, reaching, balancing, occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds. Use of computer and telephone systems is required, which includes coordination of eye and hand, and fine manipulation by the hands (typing, writing, and working with files). Requires the ability to defend oneself and clients in physically abusive situations through the use of approved verbal de-escalation techniques.
- Requires talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Talking is required to impart oral information to employees, clients, patients, and the public, and in those activities in which the employee is required to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Requires hearing: Hearing is required to receive and communicate detailed information through oral communication.
- Requires seeing: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and at distance. This factor is required to complete paperwork for many of the employees essential job functions and to observe client behavior and activities in and out of the facility.
- The normal work routine involves no exposure to human blood, body fluids or tissues. However, exposure or potential exposure may be required as a condition of employment. Appropriate personal protective equipment will be readily available to every employee.
Mental Demands:
- Requires the ability to collect and analyze complex numerical and written data and verbal information to reach logical conclusions.
- Requires the ability to work and cooperate with clients, co-workers, managers, the public and employees at all levels in order to exchange ideas, information, instructions and opinions.
- Requires the ability to work under stress and in emotionally charged settings.
- The ability to defend oneself and clients in mentally/verbally abusive situations through the use of approved mental/verbal de-escalation techniques.