Clinical Manager

 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:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person