Clinical Manager
Reports To: Clinical Director
Purpose: To provide clinical and administrative supervision and leadership and to serve as a qualified practitioner to assigned team and support the clinic as a whole.
Qualifications: A Clinical Manager must possess a master’s degree in social work or counseling. The manager must have sufficient individual competence, professional qualifications and experience to provide supervision, service coordination; crisis assessment and intervention and management; symptom assessment and diagnosis; individual counseling and psychotherapy; administration, monitoring and documentation. Preferred Licensure: LGPC, LGSW, LMFT, LPC, LICSW, RN, APRN.
General Responsibilities: The Clinical Manager is responsible for clinical and administrative supervision and leadership including, but not limited to:
- Direct supervision and oversight of assigned community support workers and therapist and/or specialty program
- Practice as a clinician on the Mental Health Rehabilitation Services (MHRS) and making sure that treatment plan authorizations and reauthorizations, CALOCUS/LOCUS, DLA-20 and updated diagnostic assessments and all other assessments are current and DO NOT expire
- Serve as an intricate member of the SLS team to ensure continuity of care and supports the services 24 hours a day, seven days per week as necessary
· Ensure your team is only providing medically necessary interventions and services
· Provides field observation monthly to team to support growth and ensure clinical care and goals are being met
- Able to provide training and support on person-centered, strengths based and focused interventions that address the functional problems associated with the most complex and/or pervasive conditions of the identified population that will increase the recipient's ability to cope and relate to others and enhancing the highest level of functioning in the community.
- Ensure that the majority of mental health services are primarily rendered in the community and ensure that limited services remain clinic based.
- Oversight and active participation in the providing crisis response as needed by mental health recipients.
- Ensure that progress notes are reviewed, corrected and approved in a timely manner and be mindful of the payroll cutoffs
- Maintain clear and consistent supervision/field observation documentation and be prepared to give constructive feedback on team’s job performance evaluations
- Facilitate or co-facilitate staff meetings and trainings
- Ensure incident reports are prepared and submitted on time and manage utilization review of CS staff
- Random audit check community support service notes and ensure timeliness of submission and accuracy.
- Work collaboratively with and provide ongoing updates to the Clinical Director, Medical Director and the Psychiatric med/som team
- Identify, establish, and continually collaborate with community agencies, providers, and natural supports and advise team to make referrals as needed
- Provide learning opportunities, information, and resources to staff on how to accomplish goals in new, different and challenging ways.
- Listen/respond to; interact with clients, co-workers, management, and other professionals in a non-judgmental manner.
- Communicate objectively, thoroughly, accurately, concisely in a manner consistent with the cognitive level of the persons involved.
- Demonstrate an understanding and acceptance of the organizational mission and shared purpose to assist individuals by providing quality services.
- Participate in efforts to enhance service provision to consumers.
- Act and interact to build cohesiveness.
- Assist with building a positive image for the agency by demonstrating support and cooperation with other units and community agencies.
- Demonstrate professional work ethics as evidenced by overall dependability, conscientiousness, and timeliness.
- Participates in the afterhours on-call rotation
- Other duties as assigned
This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:
- Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous
- People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
- Innovative -- prefers working in unconventional ways or on tasks that require creativity
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: From $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
Schedule:
Work Location: In person