Clinical Supervisor

The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice. Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods. With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies:

Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide. Learn more about our work ovatingjustice.org.

Manhattan Justice Opportunities seeks to rethink justice in Manhattan and build a justice system that is more responsive to individuals’ and communities’ needs. Manhattan Justice is a centralized, court-based screening, resource, and referral hub that provides judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys at New York County Criminal Court and Supreme Court with a wide array of social service-based sentencing options in misdemeanor and felony cases.

Manhattan Justice offers onsite case management, psycho-educational groups, and restorative justice programming, and provides referrals to community-based service providers for mental health, substance use, employment, primary health care services and more. These services, which are open to anyone who needs them—including mandated participants’ families and friends, and others affected by the criminal justice system—help people address underlying issues in their lives, build stability, and decrease their likelihood of further justice involvement.

Manhattan Justice Opportunities is seeking a Clinical Supervisor oversee its programming for participants facing misdemeanor charges, its restorative justice work, and its work with voluntary participants. The Clinical Supervisor will be part of Manhattan Justice’s leadership team and will be responsible for supervising and supporting a group of social workers, case managers, and restorative justice practitioners; managing a caseload; and overseeing the development and implementation of onsite social service programming and referrals to community-based providers.

The Clinical Supervisor will work collaboratively with court stakeholders, including judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and court staff, as well as community-based service providers and government agency partners.

We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities as well as individuals with prior contact with the criminal justice system.

• Oversee all clinical practices for criminal court alternative sentencing and voluntary services including, but not limited to, intakes, assessments, trauma-informed case management, individual and group programming, treatment recommendations; case audits; case assignments; and compliance monitoring;
• Manage and provide weekly supervision for the misdemeanor clinical team, made up of social workers, case managers, restorative justice practitioners, supervisory staff, and social work interns;
• Maintain a small caseload of high needs participants, as needed;
• Support the development and implementation of psycho-educational group curricula;
• Troubleshoot clinical issues as they arise, including providing crisis interventions and de-escalation, as needed;
• Support Manhattan Justice’s restorative justice programming for misdemeanor and felony cases, including conferencing cases with legal partners, supervising restorative justice facilitators, participating in restorative justice processes, and developing and refining programming and processes;
• Provide ongoing oversight and quality assurance for both onsite programming and services offered by community-based service providers;
• Ensure that staff maintain appropriate and…