What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Work Supervisor position at Childrens Mercy Hospital And Clinics?
Requisition ID
2024-31547
Requisition Post Information* : Posted Date
1 month ago(11/22/2024 4:44 PM)
Posting Category
Allied Health
Division
COMM SVS PERSONNEL
Work Type
Full Time
Work Hours
0800-1600
FLSA Status
Exempt
Location : Name
Broadway
Recruiter : Full Name: First Last
Terry Worthington-Brown
Recruiter : Email
tlworthingtonbro@cmh.edu
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Overview
The Team for Infants Exposed to Substance use (TIES) Program is an intensive home-based partnership with pregnant and postpartum women and their families affected by maternal substance use. The program provides social work and parent educator specialists who partner with families to create a mutually designed plan that is both individualized and comprehensive and builds on family strengths to meet family’s identified goals. Staff provide direct services (e.g. counseling, crisis intervention, transportation, support for substance use treatment, connection to health care) and help coordinate the services of other community agencies (e.g. substance use treatment, child welfare, criminal justice) as well.
The TIES Program Supervisor is responsible for administrative, clinical, and reflective supervision of all TIES clinical staff. In addition, the Supervisor is an integral part of the TIES and Community Programs management teams and consistently works to identify, plan and implement strategies to enhance services to families.
- Clinical supervision focuses on supporting job performance through the review and discussion of specific cases. This discussion tends to focus on the needs of the participant and how to best meet those needs. Within clinical supervision, some administrative interactions are included, as well as support for the professional development of the practitioner.
- Reflective supervision shifts the focus solely from relationships with the families participating in the program. Reflective supervision considers the importance of understanding how each of these relationships affects the others. Providing a safe space to process the emotional weight, slow down the work, and to promote curiosity and wondering about how members of the multiple relationships are experiencing their participation enhances reflection, helps prevent burnout, and builds empathy.
• Recruit, interview, hire, and train TIES clinical staff in consultation with Manager
• Provide regular reflective and clinical supervision to assigned staff per TIES model
• Regularly shadow all clinical staff on home visits
• Support the professional growth of TIES team by encouraging professional insight; evaluating the therapeutic use of self; and providing effective feedback
• Provide training on database documentation and all TIES Program tools jointly with TIES Coordinator
• Monitor timely completion of tools for each enrolled family
• Ensure staff meet all department, hospital and program guidelines
• Complete regular evaluations utilizing department and hospital tools
• Consistently monitor staff morale and work to develop supportive work environment that addresses the intensity of home-based work with families facing multiple challenges
• Consistently monitor work load balance and ensure appropriate staffing levels in consultation with Manager
• Promote education and training to increase staff skill levels, build teamwork, and support staff leadership in consultation with Manager
Program planning:
•Accept referrals and assign cases with TIES Coordinator
•Maintain tracking system for referrals and enrollees with Community Programs (CP) Office Manager
•Maintain all program forms and tools and update as needed
•Serve as liaison to evaluation team with CP Project Manager
•Coordinate needed training in consultation with Manager
•Develop and manage assigned administrative projects
Clinical practice as TIES Family Support Specialist for small caseload:
• Serve as Family Support Specialist for caseload of 2-4 families in both Missouri and Kansas
• Conduct interventions and complete all necessary documentation per program model
• Work in collaboration with Parenting Resource Specialists to promote family outcomes
• Collaborate with team and community agencies for assigned families
• Serve as backup for clinical staff in absences and whenever supervised positions are unfilled
Administrative leadership to hospital and community based groups and organizations:
• Participates in TIES and CP unit management teams
• Consults with Manager for assignment of TIES staff to hospital and community based committees as requested
• Consults with Manager to develop, manage and/or assign staff to individual and team projects including research, QI, database activities and other special projects
• Participates in department management team as requested
• Consistently advocates for social work practice and psychosocial needs of patients and families within the unit, department and hospital system
Community Programs recognizes lack of reliable private or public transportation as a social determinant of health in our community. Home-based family support services will require the Supervisor, Social Work - Healthy Families America to occasionally provide transportation to/from health related appointments, required court appearances, alcohol and drug treatment centers, and other service agencies addressing social determinants of health, in their staff owned and insured vehicles.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree Social Work and 1-2 years experience. In home visiting, substance use disorder, child welfare, intimate partner violence or other social work intervention experience
- Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) MO, or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) MO required upon hire (obtain KS license within 90 days)
- 1-2 years of Leadership, supervisory experience preferred
- Experience providing/receiving Reflective Supervison preferred
- Position requires knowledge of home visiting challenges and the tenants of reflective supervision. Clear communication skills; collaborative team building; ability to develop and implement plans to build partnerships with enrolled families and to support other clinical staff in doing so; support supervisor-specialist partnership as well to enhance staff ability and performance is required
Salary : $33