Licensed Therapist - Assistant Clinical Manager - Childrens Advocacy Center

Overview

Description: This position is responsible for providing clinical supervision to the CAC therapists and interns; this position may also supervise other positions. The Assistant Clinical Manager is also responsible for directing the clinical work of the program including treatment planning, monitoring licensure requirements, file management, and auditing. The Assistant Clinical Manager may directly supervise clinical staff to licensure and supervise clinical interns.

This position also models and supports the National Children’s Alliance Accreditation requirements, trauma informed culture and administrative duties for the program. See responsibilities below.

Position: Assistant Clinical Manager
Program: Children  Advocacy Center
Status: Full-Time, Exempt

The essential duties and responsibilities include the following.

• Quality of Care and Service: Provides direct individual, group, or family counseling, including intake assessments, treatment planning, and follow up care to children, youth, and family clients as a part of the CAC program.
• May oversee advocacy activities including providing onsite and aftercare services to families, training new advocates, coaching and monitoring advocate activities, managing advocate data, performing advocate duties as necessary, and evaluating quality of advocacy services provided to clients.
• Nurtures a culture that ensures the CAC staff deliver direct services that demonstrate continuous quality improvement and progress towards meeting the highest practice standards for quality.
• Supports client choice in care, engagement and help-seeking skills.
• Promotes and teaches resiliency-building skills to empower staff and clients.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of trauma on development, learning, health and social-emotional well-being.
• Demonstrates an understanding of concepts related to secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue and the impact of these on quality of care.
• Maintains working knowledge of multidisciplinary team functioning and National Children9s Alliance Accreditation standards to guide program design and implementation.
• Remains abreast of the latest research, trends and best practice standards in cultural competency and mental health practices through training and continuing education.

• Human Resources Management: Demonstrates and models employee evaluation practices that are consistent, inclusive, transparent, trauma-informed, and in alignment with the organization9s Human Resources expectations.
• Utilizes individual and peer clinical supervision for both self and supervisory staff to support personal growth, professional growth, reflection, self-care, and clinical skills.
• Ensures a work environment that promotes trustworthiness and transparency.
• Works collaboratively to help others, including those outside of the program.
• Demonstrates a positive, willing and flexible attitude.
• Follows A.C.T. (Acknowledges, Corrects, Thanks) when faced with a complaint or service recovery opportunity.
• Celebrates success.

• Leadership and Governance: Respect the worth of each person by acting with kindness, empathy and cultural sensitivity.
• Recognizes and values diversity and the contribution of employees at all levels of the agency.
• Act with integrity in relationships with clients, colleagues and community.
• Leads adherence to Synergy policies and procedures.
• Participates in Performance and Quality Improvement activities.

• Financial and Grant Management: Prepares and proposes a clinical program budget for review and approval by CAC and Finance VPs that operates within reasonable expectations for program expenditures.
• Demonstrates, coaches, and trains staff on accurate data entry and utilization.
• Fosters the integration of programmatic evaluation and data into programmatic planning for advanced learning and growth of the program.
• Works collaboratively with the CAC VP on grant related activities for the program including data management, periodic grant reporting, grant application processes including narrative writing and development of outcome and output measures.

• Operational Management: Identifies obstacles and problems and takes…