Assistant Program Director - Region 3

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YAI has an opening for an Assistant Program Director for the START program. The Assistant Program Director over-sees operations of the clinical team and therapeutic supports operations. Directly supervises team leaders, assists the program director with the development of community linkages, and systemic collaboration. 

Key/Essential Functions & Responsibilities      

• Provides leadership and direct administrative supervision to START Clinical and Therapeutic Team Leaders in assigned region, regularly assessing program operations, needs and team performance; provides feedback and ensures timely completion of performance evaluations. 
• Regularly monitors and ensures that Clinical and Therapeutic Teams in assigned region to ensure they are meeting applicable requirements and quotas through day-to-day oversight of caseload assignments, ensuring appropriate frequency, timeliness and type of engagement and community outreach, completion of required assessments and evaluations, and completion of discharges within established timelines. 
• Assigns and distributes appropriate caseloads across assigned region, ensuring appropriate staffing and availability to meet START/CSIDD requirements for engagements and assessments; participates in the creation and maintenance of 24/7 on-call staffing schedule to ensure necessary coverage for START participants.   
• Performs all duties of team leaders, as needed and in order to ensure fidelity to the START model; provides coverage and direct supervision to START Team(s) in the absence of a supervisor, including on-site, as needed. 
• Ensures that assigned region provides START services and supports in fidelity to the START model and ensures compliance with all other applicable Federal, State, Local and/or oversight agency rules, regulations and guidelines; participates in meetings and case conferences with the clinical team, as needed to ensure START model fidelity or to address or escalate concerns with clinical interventions.  
• Oversees and ensures appropriate and timely completion and maintenance of all paperwork and records, establishment of community linkages, resolution of concerns, reporting of incidents, responses to requests from state agencies for data and program informati