Acting Director, Westside Outreach

Role: Acting Director Westside OutreachReports to: Senior Director OutreachProgram: 1504-Westside C3Department: OutreachLocation: CSM Fire Houseth Street Santa Monica CA 90401Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pmStatus: Full-time/Exempt/ManagementOpenings: 1Summary:Under the supervision of the Senior Director Outreach the Acting Director will provide oversight and leadership to all outreach teams on the Westside. This includes oversite of four multidisciplinary street outreach teams (Santa Monica Homeless Multidisciplinary Street Team HMST Santa Monica C3 and Pacific Palisades and Malibu outreach teams). These teams are part of a City of Santa Monica and LA County wide strategy to combat goal of HMST is to target the highest utilizers of the City of Santa Monicas emergency resources (police fire and hospitals). The goal of the C3 Palisades and Malibu teams is to focus intensive outreach efforts in the areas of greatest density of PEH. These skilled interdisciplinary teams use best practices to engage homeless and chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring mental health substance use and/or medical Acting Director will provide clinical oversight and crisis management clinical and administrative supervision for Program Managers and Clinical Case Managers coordinate both interagency and community relationships work directly with City of SM Palisades City of Malibu and LA County Department of Homeless Services and Housing (HSH) and support broader agency Duties and Responsibilities:Leverage partnerships with community health providers/the business community and social service/housing providers to house the homeless people living on the streets of Santa Monica Palisades and Malibu multidisciplinary teams to remove personal barriers to permanent the day-to-day activities of the street-based engagement team members with a focus on clinical care and housing leadership with morning and afternoon team meetings to ensure continuity of care outreach plans and organize daily workflow and delegate work to the leadership overseeing the multidisciplinary the identification of appropriate interim and permanent housing and supportive services taking into account each individuals physical and cognitive collaboratively with public private and nonprofit sector groups to establish and provide an environment of continuous quality improvement leading by example mentoring team members and maintaining professional and leadership small and larger team case conference crisis situations on an individual basis and determine appropriate triage ongoing trainings to staff on file documents and contract outcomes/ HMIS reports locate errors and provide follow up reports to staff for corrective plan of with Director of Media and Communication on public relations adherence to all funder contract and performance individual and team supervision and clinical annual performance evaluations for all assigned staff and monitors all leaders within the department are conducting annual performance evaluations with their direct and ensure program data collection and timely reporting to compliance and all regulatory bodies that fund the and implement systems to enhance communication and collaboration with other systems of care within and outside of the meetings and conferences prepare written reports and complete related projects as technical assistance and training to Assistant Director Program Managers and outreach staff in data collection and client file all meetings requested by funders HSH City of SM Palisades and Malibu. Provide oversite regarding hiring and ensure Diverse and Equitable hiring practices to appropriately reflect the diversity of the population OSHA reports on completed on a monthly all agency and funder required trainings in a timely manner and ensure that staff are also in other duties as assignedQualifications: Licensed mental health professional (Ph.D. PSY.D. LCSW or LMFT).Three (3) or more years working in social service agency that provided outreach and street engagement services to high acuity individuals with co- occurring (2) years of management and supervisory experience working with individuals with mental health issues and/or co-occurring oriented with excellent time management and organization proficient in written and verbal communication as well as interpersonal team building and computer skillsExperience working within the public sector is also highly desirablePreferred Qualifications: Licensed for 2 Environment:Combination of field and office environmentOn occasion walk or drive to different local sitesRegularly required to sit stand bend and occasionally lift or carry up to 15 poundsMay necessitate working in busy and loud environmentsMay be exposed to elements like cold heat dust noise and odorMay need to bend stoop twist and sit throughout the day