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About the Role

Assist in overseeing a therapy group providing evidenced-based, culturally responsive mental health treatment across the lifespan. This role involves supervising clinicians, managing performance, and overseeing clinic operations to ensure effective service delivery with an emphasis on health equity and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

Supervise a group of clinicians at various levels of independence and training including those with licenses/permits as LMSW, MFT-LP, MHC-LP, LCSW, and MFT.
Assist as a key leader in managing the performance of individual supervisees and clinician group as a whole.
Assist the clinical director in overall clinic management responsibilities including, but not limited to quality assurance, compliance, and management of various clinical service lines.
Conduct individual biopsychosocial and diagnostic assessments to identify client needs, including whether client meets DSM/ICD criteria for diagnoses treatable within OMH MHOTRS program and the medical necessity standard for insurance billable services.
Develop treatment plans collaboratively with clients in order to help manage expectations for progress in treatment and when goals are met such that the current episode of care will end.
Assess ongoing risk, including but not limited to threat to self or others, and develop safety plans that mitigate risk and assist clinicians in coordinating transfers to the hospital, making welfare check calls, etc.
Provide individual, couples, and/or family therapy sessions using evidenced-based interventions that are client-centered and drive toward treatment goals.
Adhere to agency and OMH documentation standards, including both content covered and timeliness of completion.
Demonstrate continued professional growth including deepening and broadening clinical practice through continuing education and supervision.
Respond after hours for urgent/crisis needs of agency clients as needed.
Collaborate with internal partners, such as psychiatric team members, as well as external partners, such as PCPs and schools, in order to deliver coordinated care to clients.

Requirements

Experience supervising clinicians at various training levels in assessing and treating individuals and families in an outpatient setting with diagnosable mental health conditions based on DSM/ICD criteria.
Experience with personnel management practices including basic working knowledge of labor laws and policies.
Experience helping clinicians meet key performance indicators (e.g., billable hour targets, timely note completion, etc.).
Experience in general clinic management (e.g., assistance with compliance and quality assurance measures to assure we are meeting standards of practice).

Skills

Evidenced-based treatment
Culturally responsive mental health treatment
Supervision
Personnel management
Labor laws and policies
Key performance indicators management
Clinic management
Quality assurance
Compliance
Biopsychosocial assessments
Diagnostic assessments
DSM/ICD criteria
Treatment planning
Risk assessment
Safety planning
Individual therapy
Couples therapy
Family therapy
Documentation standards
Continuing education
Crisis intervention
Inter-agency collaboration
External partner collaboration