Assistant Director (Community and Youth Mental Health Services)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

The Salvation Army, Children and Youth Group - Gracehaven is a residential home for children and youths who require care, protection and rehabilitation due to risk behaviours and a lack of parental supervision.

We aim to help children and youths reintegrate back into their family and society through an array of holistic programmes and activities specially designed to cater to the well being of each individual person. At Gracehaven, a team of professionally trained social workers work towards building holistic and individualized care plans that are tailored to meet each person's needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

MAIN PURPOSE / OBJECTIVES:

• The Assistant Director, Community and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) Services is responsible for overseeing and managing the delivery of community services and youth mental health programmes. He/she will provide professional and operational oversight for clinical and social work components in CYMH.

• This position will supervise the Manager, Youth Development Centre (YDC) to ensure smooth planning and implementation of programmes for youths at the drop in centre, child access services and youth mental health programmes. This will include guiding staff and executing the pivoting of YDC from its current focus to professionally grounded youth mental health and developing the activities and programmes needed from scratch.

• This position will also provide professional supervision to develop and implement youth mental health programmes that are able to reach a broad spectrum of youths to build resilience as well as supervise the team to provide case management and basic level counselling/triage for low to moderate level of youth mental health concerns. This will include ensuring that funders' KPIs and obligations are met.

• This position will also supervise the Manager, Kids in Play (KIP) to ensure strategic planning, and provide strong professional oversight to enable KIP to continue to be well established as a clinically sound service provider and continue to grow KIP's social work and clinical practice in the corrections landscape. This position will also front engagements with government agencies such as Prisons and NCSS, using his/her professional standing and capability to build a strong reputation for KIP and enable collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure continual financial support for all KIP programmes. He/she will also work with relevant agencies such as NCSS on assessment/evaluation tools and how they are to be implemented appropriately to ensure KIP is fairly assessed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage the delivery of community services and youth mental health programmes.

• Provide professional oversight for clinical and social work components in CYMH and KIP.

• Supervise the Manager, Youth Development Centre to ensure smooth planning and implementation of programmes for youths at the drop-in centre, child access services, and youth mental health programmes.

• Guide staff and execute the pivoting of YDC from its current focus to youth mental health.

• Provide professional oversight to develop and implement youth mental health programmes that are able to reach a broad spectrum of youths to develop healthy coping mechanisms, build resilience, and navigate life's challenges.

• Supervise the Manager, Kids in Play (KIP) to ensure strategic planning, and where appropriate review, for all KIP programmes to ensure KIP's standing in correctional sector remains strong.

• Foster strong collaboration with key stakeholders such as Prisons and NCSS to ensure continual financial support for all KIP programmes.

• Maintain close working relations with Prisons authorities to ensure all kids in play continue to develop.

• Ensure that funder's KPIs and obligations for all community and YMH programmes are met, as well as work with relevant partners such as MER in HQ and NCSS Research to ensure evaluations are fairly executed for.

• Be involved in service development and supervision for other new community services.

Qualifications:

• A degree in social work, psychology, or a related field.
• Strong clinical and professional record in social work or clinical work, especially in working with families, children and youth and/or mental health
• Strong social work/clinical leadership abilities and able to grow capability for other professionals.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.

Working Hours

10 am to 7 pm on Monday to Friday (1 hour for lunch)

As this programme will involve community outreach and services, flexibility will be needed due to the exisgencies of service.

Working Location

The Salvation ArmyChildren and Youth Group

Youth Development Centre

Address: 65 Kallang Bahru, #01-305, Singapore 330065

Gracehaven Children's Home

Address: 3 Lorong Napiri, Singapore 547548