Assistant Team Leader, BX SRP

Job Title: Assistant Team Leader, BX SRP

Job Summary:

CASES is seeking an experienced, clinically grounded Assistant Team Leader to join a new and innovative initiative within our Pretrial Services Department: the Intensive Services Unit (ISU). This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader who thrives in fast-paced, mission-driven environments and is passionate about supporting individuals with complex needs at critical moments in their lives.


The Assistant Team Leader provides direct supervision, clinical guidance, and operational support to the team members working the night shift at Manhattan Criminal Court. This team delivers intensive, hands-on support to participants in the Supervised Release Program, building and maintaining caseloads that move seamlessly from the courtroom to the community, night after night.


Reporting to and supported by the Director of Arraignments, the Assistant Team Leader plays a key role in guiding daily operations, strengthening clinical practice, and fostering a collaborative, trauma-informed team culture.

Salary: The salary for the Assistant Team Leader, BX SRP role is $79,568.00 per year.

Shift Hours: This position is full-time working Monday - Friday from 9am to 5pm.


Location Address: 424 East 147th Street 1st Floor, Bronx, NY 10455.

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid (for roles that have at least 1 full day remote per week)

What you will be doing:

• Support the overall clinical and administrative operations of the community supervision, case management, peer support, health, and rehabilitation services.
• Manage a specialized caseload of program participants who present with significant behavioral health needs, co-morbid conditions and/or complex presentations requiring collaboration with various partner providers.
• Provide recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and gender-responsive services.
• Assess participant's; immediate needs, legal circumstances, substance use, mental health, trauma, psychosocial, vocational, educational, and housing needs to complete assessments and develop service plans.
• Complete assessments, progress notes and program data reporting as required by program funders.
• Conduct outreach to families and significant others to gather collateral information for service planning.
• Use evidence-based counseling approaches to develop a rapport with participants and develop insight into specified need areas.
• Take leadership in management of high risk and complex care cases, including conducting direct work in the community and with other members of the team as needed to manage risk.
• Adhere to Supervised Release program protocols ensuring participants at higher risk for criminal recidivism and supervision failure receive intensive supervision.
• Support internal program auditing activities of progress notes, service referrals, service plans, discharge summaries and court reports with additional reinforcement during supervision.
• Complete electronic chart-keeping activities in accordance with confidentiality regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Provide culturally competent and anti-discriminatory services in accordance with CASES policies.
• Supervise Case Coordinators and peer intern students, where applicable.

What we are looking for:

• Master's degree in a relevant clinical discipline such as Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Psychology with 2-4 years Supervisory experience.
• At least two years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and those with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders.
• Experience understanding various evidence-based models and theories pertaining to psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, serious mental illness and recovery.
• Experience understanding family systems based on diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• Highly organized and self-motivated.

Preferred Skills:

• Bilingual Spanish
• LMSW or LMHC preferred
• CASAC or CASAC-T preferred

Employee Benefits:

CASES cares about employee wellbeing, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Vacation and Paid Time Off - starting at 25 days
• 12 Paid Holidays per year.
• Retirement 403(b) Competitive matching up to 6%.
• Employee Referral Program

Our Values

At CASES, we like to move with

PURPOSE , which reflects our values:

PEOPLE| Hold people's stories with dignity

UNITY| Commit to a shared mission

RESPECT| Celebrate the strength of diversity

PROGRESS| Always work to improve

OPTIMIZE| Make the best use of resources

SOLUTIONS| Work together to solve problems

EMPATHY| Seek to understand others

Although we would love to learn about the skills of every candidate, only selected candidates that are selected will receive a response. We encourage you to apply for any position(s) you feel you are qualified for.


CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.


Monday - Friday, 9am to 5pm
35 hours per week excluding breaks