Assistant Director (Community and Youth Mental Health Services)

Roles & Responsibilities

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

The Salvation Army has been touching lives in Singapore since 1935 and we remain committed in serving the underprivileged in the community without discrimination. To us, every life is precious and we actively help those in need regardless of age, race or religion.

Throughout the years, we have established a comprehensive network of social services to meet a wide range of needs in our community. Our diverse programmes reach out to children who need care and protection, families in material need, ailing aged requiring quality nursing care and other needy segments in our society.

Our spiritual ministry also reaches out to the people in the community to provide counsel to those in need. We are there to help guide those in need towards finding their identity and purpose in life.

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.

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QUALIFICATIONS

OTHER INFORMATION

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

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