Assistant Director, Santa Monica Outreach

Role: Assistant Director, Santa Monica Outreach

Reports to: Director of Westside Outreach

Program: 1500-Outreach

Department: Outreach

Location: CSM Fire House - 1444 7th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Status: Full-time/Exempt/Management

Openings: 1

Summary:

The People Concern's Santa Monica Outreach Program is seeking a licensed mental health professional (Ph.D., PSY.D., LCSW or LMFT) to serve as the Assistant Director of 3 multidisciplinary street outreach teams (Homeless Multidisciplinary Street Team, Santa Monica C3, and Beach Santa Monica C3). These teams are part of a City of Santa Monica strategy to combat homelessness. The goal of HMST is to target the highest utilizers of the City of Santa Monica's emergency resources (police, fire, and hospitals). The goal of the C3 teams is to focus intensive outreach efforts in the areas of greatest density of PEH. These skilled interdisciplinary teams use best practices for engaging chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring mental health, substance use, and/or medical issues. The Assistant Director provides clinical oversight for both teams, clinical and administrative supervision for Program Managers and Clinical Case Managers, coordinates both interagency and community relationships, works directly with City of Santa Monica and HSH funders, and supports broader agency initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leverage partnerships with community health providers, relevant collaborators, and social service/housing providers to house the homeless people living on the streets of Santa Monica
• Lead multidisciplinary teams to remove personal barriers to permanent housing, as well as oversee the day-to-day activities of the street-based engagement team members with a focus on clinical care and housing placement
• Lead morning and afternoon team meetings to ensure continuity of care, plans and organize daily workflow, and delegate work to the multidisciplinary teams
• Oversee the identification of appropriate interim and permanent housing and supportive services, taking into account each individual's physical and cognitive needs
• Work collaboratively with public, private, and nonprofit sector groups to establish and provide services.
• Promote an environment of continuous quality improvement leading by example, mentoring team members, and maintaining professional and leadership skills
• Ensure adherence to all funder contract and performance standards
• Provide individual and team supervision and clinical supervision, and conduct performance evaluations for all assigned staff
• Providing crisis intervention to clients facing medical and mental health crises, including assessment and writing LPS 5150 holds.
• Providing clinical support to high acuity clients for field-based outreach
• Oversee and ensure program data collection and timely reporting to compliance and contract activities for funding sources and regulatory bodies
• Develop and implement systems to enhance communication and collaboration with other systems of care within and outside of the project
• Attend meetings and conferences, prepare written reports, and complete related projects as requested
• Ensure that all Annual Reviews are completed in a timely manner.
• Provide oversite regarding hiring and ensure Diverse and Equitable hiring practices to appropriately reflect the diversity of the population served.
• Ensure OSHA reports on completed on a monthly basis.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Masters' degree in mental health field (Social Work, MFT, or Psychology) and licensed or able to get licensed within 6 months.
• Three (3) or more years' experience providing outreach and street engagement services.
• Two (2) years of supervision/management experience, preferably in a nonprofit agency that serves homeless, mentally ill or dually-diagnosed people.
  
• LPS designation, or ability to obtain.
• Current, valid CA Driver's license with an acceptable driving record.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active and in good standing License with Board of Behavioral Sciences

Work Environment:

• Combination of field and office environment
• On occasion walk or drive to different local sites
• Regularly required to sit, stand, bend and occasionally lift or carry up to 35 pounds
• Will necessitate working in busy and loud environments
• Will be exposed to elements like cold, heat, dust, noise and odor
• May need to bend, stoop, twist , and sit throughout the day