Mental Health Clinical Supervisor

CAS
270
222 S Hill St
Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA

Salary Range: $6,790.09-$9,278.60 monthly

The Office of Diversion and Reentry (ODR) within the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is seeking a Mental Health Clinical Supervisor (MHCS) to join its Navigation Team. This team supports community providers and clients with histories of homelessness and severe, persistent mental illness who are diverted from the Los Angeles County jails into community-based services. ODR clients are referred to community agency providers offering intensive clinical case management, ensuring continuity of care as individuals transition from custody to the community and work toward long-term stability and permanent supportive housing.

The Navigation Team receives client referrals from the ODR programs and takes a proactive approach to stabilizing clients at risk of mental health decompensation. If necessary, the team may assess for and support the mental health hospitalization of clients meeting criteria for a mental health hold.

The MHCS for the new ODR Navigation Team provides clinical leadership and oversight to ensure high-quality, harm reduction and trauma-informed clinical guidance for community providers working with clients at significant risk of psychiatric crisis. This role supports providers by offering clinical consultation, de-escalation strategies, and direct intervention when needed. The Clinical Supervisor conducts or oversees LPS evaluations to determine whether a 5150 hold is warranted and may be required to perform hands-on, life-saving interventions, including facilitating hospitalization when appropriate to ensure client safety.

The MHCS will train, instruct, and supervise a Staff Analyst, a Psychiatric Social Worker II (PSW II), and a Community Health Worker (CHW), and will collaborate closely with a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Additionally, this role serves as the team’s lead and clinical expert, responsible for developing policies, protocols, and training to enhance clinical support, improve crisis de-escalation, and reduce hospitalizations and reincarcerations.

Currently, ODR has a hybrid work schedule with a combination of workdays in the office, in the field and remote. This may change at discretion of DHS.

• Serve as a clinical subject-matter expert to providers working with clients at risk of psychiatric emergency, including individuals exhibiting danger to self, danger to others, or gravely disabled behaviors.
• Provide guidance and consultation on crisis de-escalation, safety planning, risk assessment, and best practices for managing high-acuity clinical situations.
• Respond to psychiatric crises in the field or via telehealth by providing real-time clinical consultation, stabilization strategies, and direct crisis intervention as clinically indicated.
• Facilitate field-based clinical interventions, including coordination of transport and psychiatric hospitalization when clinically appropriate.
• As appropriate, participate in team-based interventions that may include assisting with the safe transfer of a client onto a gurney during an involuntary hospitalization.
• Conduct in-person Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) assessments and complete required documentation for 5150 psychiatric holds in accordance with legal, ethical, and Los Angeles County standards.

• Provide ongoing clinical supervision to licensed and unlicensed staff, including regularly scheduled individual and group supervision, in accordance with licensing board, legal, ethical, and program requirements.
• Oversee clinical practice, documentation, and service delivery to ensure high-quality care, appropriate treatment planning, and compliance with ODR and DHS standards.
• Review and supervise the evaluation of medical and mental health records to support case consultation and identify factors contributing to client risk and clinical instability.
• Consult on complex and high-risk cases with interdisciplinary team members; develop, review, and communicate clinical recommendations to ensure clients receive services at the appropriate level of care based on acuity.

• Coordinate with hospitals, law enforcement, emergency responders, and community partners to support safe, timely, and effective crisis response and transitions of care.
• Develop and oversee systems to identify and address clinical program needs, including linkage to acute and subacute psychiatric beds, medication management, substance use treatment, and other community-based services.
• Serve as a clinical resource to program partners by ensuring timely access to consultation, guidance, and support for high-risk cases.

• Develop and deliver trainings and technical assistance on crisis de-escalation, risk assessment, safety planning, and evidence-informed clinical practices for high-risk populations.
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