Mental Health Supervisor; Adolescent Care Unit

CLOSING DATE:
Open Until Filled

Salary Range: $80,652.00 - $/Annually

** APPLICANT MUST HAVE A VALID, UNRESTRICTED INSURABLE DRIVER’S LICENSE**

** RESUME AND REFERENCES ARE REQUIRED**

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervises all Mental Health Specialist, Mental Health Technician, Social Worker, and Caseworker staff directing day to day work activities, conducts annual performance reviews, approves leave and timecards and handles employee discipline.
• Plans, schedules, coordinates and reviews the delivery of mental/behavioral health services including work load assignments and monitors the effectiveness, identifies problem areas and recommends improvements.
• Conducts individual, marital, family and group psychotherapies for children and adolescents. Services are to be provided to patients with a wide variety of acute and chronic mental health problems including depression, suicide attempts, bereavement, psychotic episodes, family conflicts, substance abuse or dependence, and trauma resulting from violence or abuses of an emotional, physical or sexual nature.
• Works effectively within a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and paraprofessionals.
• Provides consultation to TMC personnel, health professionals, and public and private resources agencies to assist patients in resolving medical, social, family, and emotional problems as needed.
• Evaluates psychological, social, physiological, and behavioral signs and symptoms of distress. Identifies any coexisting conditions that indicate the need for additional professional assessment and/or services.
• Performs intake process to include completing intake documents, identifying the patient’s presenting problems and making a case presentation in the team meeting for matching the appropriate provider with the identified patient.
• Responsible for providing an overview to the patient by describing intake process, program services, and clinic hours.
• Obtains corroborative information from significant secondary sources regarding patient’s development and psycho-social history.
• Obtains a mental status examination, assesses for risk to self and/or others, and assesses for a substance use disorder.
• Conceptualizes the patient’s problems and makes a clear presentation to the clinical team, family members, and the patient with clearly defined treatment objectives.
• Integrates historical information and assessment data to construct a meaningful integrative treatment plan based on the patient's strengths, weaknesses, and identified problems/needs.
• Explains assessment results in an understandable manner, identifies and ranks problems, establishes agreement on immediate and long-term goals, identifies effective therapeutic interventions and establishes agreement on the treatment process and the resources to be utilized.
• Coordinates and integrates services, agencies, resources, and people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established treatment goals.
• Recognizes elements of a crisis and implements an immediate course of action appropriate to the crisis.
• Disseminates psycho-education to patients and their sources of support pertaining to the patient’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Identifies the needs of a patient that cannot be met within FDIHB and matches the needs of the patient with appropriate resources.
• Documents in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system direct and indirect patient care that was provided within 24 hours of service.
• Provides guidance and supervision of Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan (SOAP) note format.
• Consults with other professionals regarding a patient’s comprehensive care.
• Attends conferences, community, group and tribal meetings relative to Medical Social Work Services.
• Contributes to program planning, development and evaluation of mental health services in conjunction with the Behavioral Health staff and other community service workers.
• Adheres to applicable laws, regulations and agency policies governing the disclosure of patient identifying information.
• Required to provide on-call coverage and crisis interventions at night and on a…