Senior Director

If you are looking for a fulfilling career that lets you improve lives and create bright futures with people in our community, consider applying for a position with Aldea! Aldea is the essential community partner for children and families in crisis and knows that in a family’s most critical moments, the company of a trusted professional can mean the difference between strength and suffering. Our staff are the foundation of all we do and creating a work environment that values and respects our staff is our priority.

Why work at Aldea?

Experience in a state of the art Council on Accreditation (COA) agency to ensure best practices and high quality services.

Be part of a team of passionate, collaborative, and dedicated professionals where staff input is highly valued.

Enriching training opportunities including potential for leadership development program participation and promotion.

Receive reimbursement for cost of credential renewal fees.

What does Aldea have to offer?

19 Paid Holidays

Vacation accrue 20 days first year

A flexible work schedule that promotes the importance of work-life balance

Company cell phone and laptop to promote separation of work and home life

Commuter Assistance with personal mileage over 20 miles to work office from their home

Excellent benefits package to meet the needs of staff and their families including medical coverage (Aldea pays your deductible!) and dental, vision, life insurance and EAP at no cost to employees!

Generous retirement up to 5% employer match contributions after 6 months of service (includes free Financial Planning)

Under the direction of Executive Leadership, the Senior Director oversees program leaders and is responsible for one or more agency divisions or regions, ensuring day-to-day program operations and personnel management is aligned with trauma-informed principles and agency goals. The Senior Director is an essential member of the Aldea Leadership Team and is responsible for employee and program development and oversight.

SOAR Program Information

The Senior Director will oversee the administration and management of Aldea's SOAR program. Aldea’s Supportive Outreach and Access to Resources (SOAR) program is an Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI)/First Episode Psychosis (FEP) Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) clinical model that provides comprehensive assessment and treatment services to clients (ages 12-30) experiencing, or at enhanced risk of developing, early onset psychosis. The goal of the program is to intervene as early as possible to support recovery for youth and young adults with serious mental illness, improve their functioning and quality of life, and reduce long-term adverse outcomes. The foundational processes of the program are a team-based approach, specialized training and treatment approaches, community outreach, client and family engagement, and shared decision making between team members, clients, and families. The Coordinated Specialty Care treatment team positions include Program Director, Clinical Supervisor, Therapist, Supported Education and Employment Specialist (SEES), Family Advocate, Peer Specialist, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner/Psychiatrist, and Program/Clinic Coordinator.

Essential Duties:

1. Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop effective teams.

2. Coaches and trains assigned Program Directors in the effective leadership and management of personnel situations and promotes both employee satisfaction and performance accountability.

3. Develops effective collaborative relationships with local county and community partners and other external relationships, promoting agency business development goals and ensuring contracting organization satisfaction with services.

4. Ensures assigned programs and contracts perform to exceed budget and contract requirements, and that service delivery meets the highest professional and clinical standards with demonstrated positive outcomes.

5. In conjunction with Executive Leadership, evaluates additional program development opportunities for improving and growing client services according to community needs, emerging trends, best practice clinical treatment and available funding sources.

6. Ensure that programs maintain COA standards and implement a continuous quality improvement approach across programs.

7. Collaborates on authoring of grants/contract proposals, workflows, and policies and procedures.

8. Demonstrates understanding of how to create and effectively manage site budgets.

9. Ensures all programs meet compliance standards with minimal financial penalties/ recoupments and that assigned sites hit budget targets within acceptable ranges.

10. Demonstrates excellent emotional intelligence skill including self-awareness, emotion regulation and social navigation and effectively engenders trust from others.

11. Demonstrates creative problem solving and competency in taking or recommending appropriate actions while determining which issues to delegate, handle independently, or refer to Executive Leadership.

12. Conducts personnel management in a fair and ethical manner and assures all program sites do the same, upholding all legal and agency requirements pertaining to human resource management, and upholds systems which minimize injuries and workers’ compensation claims.

Qualifications:

1. Master’s degree from an accredited or state approved graduate school in social work (MSW) or related counseling Master’s degree program; LCSW, LMFT, LPCC or Psychology clinical license required (at least two years post-licensed in California).

2. At least five years of experience in Behavioral Health and/or Social Services management (or related field).

3. Current knowledge of CalAIM and/or Community Care Licensing standards preferred.

4. Adaptable and constructive leadership and ability to lead change and elicit positive outcomes while preserving and building morale and an equitable work environment.

5. Demonstrates advanced leadership qualities including resourcefulness, responsibility and follow through, decision-making, and problem-solving.

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