As a Residential Program Director for North Suffolk Mental Community Services, you’ll be in charge of an intensive group living environment within the Adult Community Clinical Services Program. The Residential Program Director provides administrative leadership, supervision and direction for all team members.

• Management of staffs’ efforts to engage people and partner with them to improve their health and wellness, achieve symptom stabilization and self-management, develop and/or restore skills impacted by mental illness and live a self-directed life.
• Insures that day to day operations of the group home program are grounded in the philosophy and techniques of psychiatric rehabilitation.
• Assist people with psychiatric and substance use disorders to identify personal priorities, preferences, strengths, and interests in order to help them establish goals that support a life in recovery.
• Instill hope by engaging in positive interactions that promote recovery and empowerment.
• Collaborates in the development and implementation of Safety Plans and Crisis Prevention and Response Plans in order to help prevent and mitigate risk factors
• Use evidence based practices including motivational interviewing.
• Advocate that persons need to make informed choices to further their own recovery.
• Advocate for better access to public services and natural supports for persons in order to facilitate their recovery and full integration into the community.
• Leads the hiring process for residential staff and ensures that all staff are properly oriented and are trained in all mandatory trainings.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.