Clinical Supervisor

Job Description

 

Title:                            Clinical Supervisor
Reports to:                Senior Director of Mental Health Services
Status:                         Full-time
Work Schedule:       M-F, Flexible (some evenings and weekends required)

Salary:                       $80,000-$85,000/yr.

job summary

Hour Children (HC) is an organization founded to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and build health, independent and secure lives. Hour Children provides compassionate and comprehensive services approaching the work in an anti-discriminatory, inclusive environment committed to HC’s standards of justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. This position oversees psychotherapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, and counseling skills of counselors serving individuals identified as women residing in HC’s ten residences. Supervise the mental health and other staff and provide clinical support, and treatment oversight and develop new services/programs to meet the needs of HC clients.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide holistic individual and group supervision to the clinical staff including child and family therapists, counselors, case managers, and house managers
• May provide individual and or group therapy to a small caseload
• Coordinate intakes interviews, screening, assessment, goal setting, progress monitoring, advocacy, and referrals in conjunction with HC clinical community and correctional facility staff
• Provide clinical expertise, staff supervision, and training to treatment and administrative staff
• Facilitate clinical case conference meetings and intake multidisciplinary team meetings
• Work with staff to facilitate gender-responsive and trauma informed group programming such as Seeking Safety, Beyond Anger and Violence, Circle of Safety, Parenting Journey, Beyond Trauma, and Women of Color focused groups.
• Review clinical records, assess client progress, and provide collaborative input concerning treatment activities (behavioral, academic, therapeutic, and psychiatric)
• Collaborate with in house and community resources to ensure seamless integration of services particularly for those with acute and complex needs
• Work closely with development department and executive staff to manage and evaluate client data and to complete reporting
• Promote consistent client engagement and retention in mental health, housing, and other services to address barriers to housing facility
• Facilitate mediation, case conferences, and house meetings, as needed
• Monitor client charting documentation according to agency standards, such as court reports, client case notes, service plans, and any documentation needed for timely service delivery
• Assist with developing policies, processes, procedures, and systems that meet regulatory requirements of the mental/behavioral health services
• Attend internal staff meetings, as well as related external meetings and trainings with resource partners
• Actively engage in complex problem solving, professional learning, collaboration, conflict resolution, and relationship building.
• Perform additional department or agency related duties or special projects as directed by supervisor

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Serve as part of a dynamic, collaborative leadership team focused on advancing HC’s mission and values
• Licensed in NYS – LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, or LMFT
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 5 years’ experience supervising staff serving justice impacted populations who have experienced complex trauma. Preferred experience centering individuals identified as women
• Excellent time management and verbal and written communication skills
• Familiar with evidence-based treatment models such as CBT, MI, DBT, TF-CBT.
• Must be able to deliver services in a culturally sensitive manner centering justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team
• Computer and technical skills, specifically Microsoft Office programs
• Experience with navigating public benefits, substance abuse treatment systems, and/or supportive housing programs
• Training in trauma-informed care and person-centered documentation and case planning preferred.
• Maintain flexible schedule to meet needs of population
• We are an organization that is choosing to require our employees be fully vaccinated against Covid-19