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Clinical Supervisor

DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center)
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/29/2025
Job Type

Full-time

Description

Shift: Office Day

Days Off: Saturday and Sunday

Insurance Benefits: Dental, Life, Long-term Disability, Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage)

Other Benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan

About DESC:

DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing. Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness.

As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves almost 3,000 people each day. Our integrated service model is designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe and affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

The Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) is a nationally recognized practice that works with people with serious and persistent mental illness, assisting them in their journey towards recovery. The PACT model is distinguished by its intensive outreach and team-oriented, trans-disciplinary approach. In the PACT model, the entire team is responsible for every participant. PACT teams have daily team meetings in which they review the status of each person they serve and make a daily schedule of services to be provided aligned with each participant’s current wants and needs.

DESC’s PACT team consists of a psychiatrist, nurses, mental health professionals, substance use disorder specialist, vocational specialist, and peer specialist all working together to help PACT participants reach their goals. Staff provide most services off-site, in the community where the help is needed. There is no time limit or mandatory cut-off point for services, but some participants do “graduate” to less intensive services, which is the goal.

JOB DEFINITION:

The Clinical Supervisor/Assistant Team Lead assists the Project Manager/Team Lead in administering, supervising and evaluating the PACT team, to ensure that program participants receive excellent clinical service. This position also functions as a practicing clinician on the team.

MAJOR DUTIES RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervisory and Administrative

  • Direct the day-to-day clinical operations of the team, including scheduling staff work hours, and facilitating the daily organizational staff meetings and treatment planning meetings
  • Continuously evaluate the treatment status of participants; plan and coordinate treatment activities to ensure immediate attention to participants’ changing needs.
  • Direct and coordinate the participant referral and intake process, including completion of comprehensive assessments
  • Participate in hiring and onboarding of new program staff, as well as training and professional development of all team members,
  • Provide clinical and administrative supervision to the Case Managers on the PACT team, in accordance with agency policy
  • Ensure timely and appropriate documentation of services, in compliance with agency policies and funder requirements, by training staff on medical record requirements and performing regular review of participant assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes written by the staff.
  • Participate in quality-assurance activities, funder audits and reviews of use of program services.
  • Maintain both agency-wide and program-specific policies and procedures and revise as necessary.
  • Initiate and maintain working relationships with the three other PACT teams in King County, law-enforcement, hospitals, other human services agencies, and informal community resources (e.g., landlords, employers).
  • Serve as a backup support to staff providing on-call crisis intervention and de-escalation services during evening and weekend hours.

Clinical

  • Oversee the implementation of treatment across the following domains of PACT services: Mental Health and Personal Strengths, Sociocultural, Physical Health, Psychosocial, Substance Use, and Employment and Education
  • Directly provide various clinical treatment services including case management and psychotherapy to individuals, groups and families.
  • Work within the principles of Housing First and Harm Reduction, and use a strengths-based approach to providing clinical mental health services
  • Act as liaison and consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.
  • Provide guidance to PACT staff coordinating with King County Designated Crisis Responders (DCRs) while evaluating clients for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

Living Conditions

All DESC clinical leaders are responsible for ensuring that their teams support their clients to achieve and maintain healthy living conditions as applicable. This may include participating in unit cleaning when the need arises.

Other

  • Comply with applicable program research and evaluation procedures.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Eligible for a Licensed AAC credential or any other superseding credential that meets RCW 71.05.020 requirements to act as a Mental Health Professional whose scope of practice includes independently conducting mental health assessments and making mental health diagnoses.
  • Master's degree in social work, psychology or other relevant behavioral science or Bachelor of Nursing degree with specialty in mental health.
  • One or more years' experience in community based behavioral health services.
  • Ability to drive an agency or personal vehicle to conduct agency related business. A current Washington State driver's license and insurable driving record are required.
  • Experience working with adults experiencing homelessness, mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
  • Interest or experience in working with participants who are difficult to engage in traditional outpatient mental health programs.
  • Strong commitment to the right and ability of each person with a severe and persistent mental illness to live in normal community residences; work in market jobs; and have access to helpful, adequate, competent, and continuous supports and services. Respect for participant rights and personal preferences in treatment are essential. Clear understanding and respect for the importance of maintaining participant confidentiality.
  • Ability to communicate and work effectively with participants and staff from various cultural backgrounds.
  • Subscribe to the philosophy of cooperation and continuity across DESC and other outside agency programs and of consideration and respect for participants. DESC expects a high degree of cooperation and collaboration among its staff, programs, and community agencies
  • Able to prioritize multiple responsibilities, work independently and exercise sound professional, clinical judgment.
  • Basic computer skills: email, data entry, file creation, correspondence.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Licensed Social Worker (LICSW), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the State of Washington.
  • Qualified to provide Department of Health Approved Supervision to LICSW, LMFT and/or LMHC candidates.
  • Bi-lingual English/Spanish.
  • Supervisory experience.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required sit for long periods of time, communicate with other persons by talking and hearing, required to lift and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds and to operate computer hardware systems. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision,

peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

DESC is committed to diversity in the workplace and promotes equal employment opportunities for all staff members and applicants. The Agency will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, caste, marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability in any employment practice, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification. Minorities and veterans are encouraged to apply.

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