Early Intervention Coordinator

Our client is a leading children’s mental health agency in the City of Toronto offering a range of services to 3,500 children ages 0‐12, youth ages 13-18 and their families each year. They provide four streams of service to families in need: early intervention, family violence, healthy child development and specialized mental health services for children and youth with learning disabilities.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Boys Coordinator ensures that the conceptualization and delivery of the Boys’ Program is consistent with the mission, values, policies, procedures, standards and priorities of the organization and are provided within assigned resources. The Coordinator provides vigorous leadership towards the achievement of an excellent professional environment and exemplary supervision. Under their direction linkages to parents and program participants are forged that balance responsive, evidence-based services with empowerment and mutual-aid philosophies. Ensure that organization is well-represented and appropriately positioned within the professional community and within other communities of interest by assuming leadership roles and by forging effective partnerships that produce identified objectives. Early Intervention Coordinators have an organizational work style that reflects both clinical and management skills and that balances individual strength, autonomy and initiative with effective team work. The Coordinator of the Boys’ Program participates in the Agency Leadership Team, and the Clinical Managers Group meetings as required to deal with operational issues, as well as the strategic vision and directions for the agency.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Assists Senior Manager in hiring and orientation for vacant staff positions.
• Evaluates and regularly reviews performance strengths and issues with assigned staff in keeping with agency policy and service standards.
• Provides effective training and leadership to staff that inspires professional aspirations and performance and that also confronts and effectively addresses performance deficiencies.
• Ensures ongoing knowledge development: conceptual understanding of child development, family functioning, and theoretical and evidence-supported foundations of interventions. A well-established grounding in feminist, attachment and trauma theories is essential.
• Ensures that work and cases are appropriately assigned in keeping with workload standards and that service is co-coordinated for optimal delivery.
• Reviews clinical work and ensures the quality and professionalism of case and service plans.
• Maintains a current knowledge of relevant benchmark clinical practices and models and related theory and research.
• Arranges staff scheduling and coverage as appropriate for service delivery.
• Works with the Senior Manager to identify human resource issues including staff training needs and constructive disciplining procedures; implements plans to address requirements.
• Monitors the volume of service delivered against approved agency standards and anticipates emerging service patterns, issues and needs; ensures that these findings are communicated in an appropriate and productive manner.
• Participates in the Agency Leadership Team and Clinical Managers Group to establish operational policies, standards and procedures.
• Works closely with the Clinical Managers to ensure overall co-ordination and effective agency operations.
• In collaboration with Senior Manager, approves expenditures within procedural requirements and reviews service and work plans for each program supervised.
• Ensures linkages to parents and program participants that balances a responsive professional model with empowerment and mutual-aid philosophies.
• Assumes a clear community profile of visibility and leadership that well represents the organization.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
• A Master’s or Doctoral Degree in Social Work, Psychology or a related discipline
• Registration (or eligibility for registration) with a professional college (e.g., College of Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapy)
• A minimum of 5 years’ clinical therapy experience working with children & adolescents, families and groups, and familiarity with associated systems (schools, community agencies)
• Training and experience in the delivery of evidence-based therapies
• Commitment to ongoing professional learning and development