Team Leader

Make a bigger difference

Team Leader

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:
The Cedar Knolls House Hard to Place Group Residence serves girls ages 16 to 21 who exhibit a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges stemming from acute and/or chronic traumatization. All of the youth are referred by the Administration for Children’s Services. The Group Residence provides supervised living units and programs of therapeutic and recreational services that emphasize family interaction and strengthening of community support networks, as well as increasing independent living skills. The goal for all of our youth is to transition them back to the community within a year of placement to a family member, significant adult connection, achieve housing, higher education, etc.

The Team Leader is a vital part of Milieu Team. The Team Leader at Cedar Knolls House supervises the Direct Support Professional. The Team Leader is the functional supervisor of the program and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the facility. Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide supervision of all Direct Support Professional staff within their living unit and ensure appropriate program coverage.
• Provides direct care staff training and orientation.
• Facilitate weekly treatment team meetings, administrator meetings, staff meetings, and individual supervision of the Direct Support Professional staff.
• Coordinate and oversee all independent living skills for the clients.
• Function as the primary liaison for the program between the client and the school system, clients’ teacher and principal.
• Complete weekly Direct Support Professional staff schedule two weeks in advance to ensure adequate unit coverage.
• Oversee day-to-day implementation of the clients’ treatment/ service plans.
• Act as integral part of the interviewing process and has strong input into final hiring recommendations.
• Work in collaboration with the Assistant Director and HR for disciplinary actions of staff.
• Ongoing collaboration with the clinical and nursing staff regarding clients functioning including the modification of ICMPs as necessary.
• Participate in the intake for new referrals.
• Provide direct milieu care on an as-needed basis.
• Become a trainer for Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and other foundational trainings order to provide ongoing training to the staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Masters in Human Services or related field preferred
• 2 years’ experience working with at risk youth, preferably in a residential setting
• A current, valid and clean Driver’s license is required for this position

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous paid time off in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:
The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.