FBH Clinical Supervisor III (Salmon Creek)

FBH CLINICAL SUPERVISOR III - WISe

VANCOUVER, WA

(Salmon Creek Site)

Catholic Community Services, Family Behavioral Health is looking for a Clinical Supervisor for our clinical team of innovators who explore and develop new approaches and implement novel strategies. Our teams provide individualized, creative and flexible services, infused with evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies.

Who We Are

We are a values-driven organization, providing family-oriented behavioral health care for children, youth and families, provided primarily in their own home and community. Our enthusiastic clinical teams provide whatever is needed to help children and youth remain safely in their own home with their family, restoring hope, providing intense mental health services and supports, and helping to strengthen the family unity. With sites located in Tukwila, Burien, North Tacoma, University Place, Olympia, Shelton, Bremerton, Aberdeen, Yelm, Vancouver, (Salmon Creek and Oakview Drive) and Portland Oregon, we offer comprehensive intensive, Wrap-around mental health services to a diverse population for youth and families. We employ almost 700 energetic and compassionate employees.

What We Value

Compassion Diversity Strength-Based-Approach Social-Justice & Our Staff!

What We Offer

• Starting Salary: $90,794.48 - $99,873.93
• Additional pay: $1,800.00 per year for First Responder pay
• Licensure pay $250.00 per pay period (2 times per month)
• BENEFITS:
• 12 paid holidays; plus 1 personal holiday each year!
• 3 weeks' vacation per year
• 12 sick-days per year
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Plans: 403-B Employee Savings Plan and an Employer Contribution Pension
• Relocation assistance
  

These professional positions provide supervision, leadership and oversight to a clinical team delivering creative behavioral health interventions to children, youth and their families with intensive therapeutic, crisis response, and community safety needs. This position requires a vibrant and dynamic team leader that is able to motivate and support a successful clinical team to provide strength based unconditional services that support a child/youth’s vital connections to family and community. Duties of this position include hiring and training, mentoring and motivating, clinical consultation, monitoring for safety, participating in leadership decisions, ensuring complete and accurate documentation, completing performance reviews, providing back-up coverage for staff, and working with and promoting positive relationships with community partners and natural supports.

The Clinical supervisor must ensure that services prescribed and provided by their treatment teams are compliant with Medicaid rules and provided as specifically identified and prescribed in the Individualized Mental Health Treatment Plan's or Crisis Services. All treatment services and crisis services are provided under the supervision of the Clinical Supervisor must be documented per required timeframes, in accordance with federal Medicaid requirements and entered into Care Logic, the FBH Electronic Health Record (EHR), as well as medical EHR's of Managed Care Organizations (MCO's), Behavioral Health Organizations (BHO's), or others per contract requirements.

Clinical supervisors can expect to work hours that vary in times and include weekends.

Job Summary

Provides clinical supervision, clinical training, professional development and field supervision for a team of clinical staff that could include: Clinician I’s, Clinician III’s, Certified Peer Counselors, Clinical Care Coordinators, and Behavioral Support Specialists.

• Provide comprehensive clinical training to clinical team that includes: field coaching/mentoring in family homes and/or the community, urgent safety crisis response and planning, team meetings facilitation, assessment and intake process, treatment planning.
• Provide leadership to clinical team to facilitate the provision of a range of evidenced based and promising clinical practices and creative therapeutic approaches that support the overall plan (including individual and family therapies). Ensure clinical teams are modifying and adjusting to individual techniques for each family situation to ensure most appropriate response to therapeutic, crisis and safety needs.
• Provide leadership to clinical team to engage family and support their partnership in the therapeutic process, utilizing parent/family expertise in problem solving around specific needs and assisting with community resources access that include both formal and informal sources.
• Provide clinical training and on-going support for clinicians and team members in FBH essential clinical practices: crisis response, team facilitation, collaborative problem solving, positive behavior support plans, motivational interviewing and trauma informed practices.
• Provide clinical consultation on a 24-hour/5-day-a-week basis or during Crisis hours, carrying a working cell phone and responding as needed in order to be accessible to assigned team members when needed.
• Provide daily clinical support and direction to team members including monitoring safety and risk issues and taking timely and appropriate action to ensure staff and consumer safety.
• Demonstrate the ability to understand Medicaid rules for service provision, coding and delivery of approved Medicaid services and provide clinical orientation and training to newly hired staff, both in the office and in the field on the appropriate provision of Medicaid services.
• Provide training in concurrent documentation and training staff in the process to enter clinical data in an Electronic Health Record. In collaboration with Quality Assurance team ensure that the clinical file is complete, meets Medicaid standards for coding and documentation, accurately reflecting the clinical work done by assigned staff.
• Provide coaching and supervision to clinical staff so that all staff meet productivity and documentation standards using collaborative problem-solving strategies to improve processes and performance, ensuring complete and accurate documentation for all consumers
• Develop a strong, thriving, positive and effective team that is built on collaborative and respectful relationships.
• Contributes in a dynamic way to the development, cohesion, and productivity of their clinical team, supporting teamwork through strong and honest communication and a commitment to diversity.
• Communicates the mission and goals of CCS Family Behavioral Health to clinical team, supporting and focusing their team toward innovative and creative contributions to achieving those goals.
  
  

Clinical Quality Oversight and Site Leadership teaming

• Maintain proficiency in determination of diagnostic Medical Necessity (per Medicaid) for initial and ongoing service authorization for all children served with Medicaid funding.
• Review service intensity through Care Logic (FBH EHR) to track placement history and length of staff along with interventions that may be appropriate for transition to a longer-term Behavioral Health Services.
• Implement effective Utilization Management processes to ensure that clinical necessity for admission; continued treatment; and service closure comply with contractual, regulatory and Family Behavioral Health System
• Through active partnership with site and system leadership assist and encourage direct service staff to employ Collaborative Documentation, and to utilize documentation as a clinical tool.
• As with all FBH Staff and Leadership, maintain an overall “risk awareness” remaining alert to any potential risks and notify Site Director immediately in order to prevent and/or mitigate problematic situations.
• Provide direct service coverage for assigned Clinician I and Clinician III’s when staff is unable to respond to their assigned families due to illnesses or vacations.
• Participate in weekend coverage “supervisory rotation”, supervision for designated site and services.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities Will Include

• Work effectively and collaboratively with operations staff in the site to manage use of their team’s concrete funds and resources for consumers and their families.
• Work with funders, community partners, mental health consumers and their families using a non-judgmental approach that is responsive to their needs and concerns.
• Other administrative functions
  
  

This position will be based out of our Vancouver, WA, Salmon Creek site. This position requires scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of youth and families served. The services we offer will be provided in community-based settings and in family homes.

A full job description may be shared with candidates invited for an interview

What We Are Seeking In a Candidate

• A Master’s or MSW degree in social work, psychology, behavioral sciences or related field.
• Must have two (2) years clinical experience working with children and families.
• Strength-based, family-oriented and solution-focused perspective.
• Ability to work both independently and as member of a team.
• Demonstrates the necessary attitudes, knowledge and skills to deliver culturally competent services and work effectively in multi-cultural situations.
• Ability to drive to our family homes throughout the community, as needed. Must have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and automobile insurance.
• Must have an acceptable driving record per CCS’ driving policy (required to provide current driving abstract).
• Ability to visually assess safety within our family homes in the community.
• Clinical Supervisor includes flexible scheduling.
• Applicant must successfully pass required background clearances prior to an offer of employment.
• Proof of negative TB test within past 12 months.
• Washington State Counselor Registration (HIV/AIDS training required).
• Support and uphold the mission, beliefs and values of Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Meets qualifications of a Child Mental Health Specialist per WAC 388-865.
• Working knowledge of Wraparound philosophies and approaches, with demonstrated technical ability in this area.
• One-year supervisory experience.
• Licensed mental health counselor (WA State).
  
  

About Vancouver

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Please contact Katherine Landry, Operations Coordinator, at katherinel@ccsww.org with any questions.

Note for Internal Candidates: reviews internal compensation and determines increase based on their experience and also agency internal equity factors.

Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please let us know if you need special accommodations to apply or interview for this position.