What are the responsibilities and job description for the Child/Adolescent Behavioral Health Clinical Lead position at Fair Haven Community Health Care?
Fair Haven Community Health Care’s mission is providing quality, compassionate primary medical, dental and Behavioral Health care to those who needed it the most. We believe that everyone should have access to high-quality medical and dental care, regardless of ability to pay.
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Reporting to the Director of Behavioral Health, the Child / Adolescent Behavioral Health Center Clinical Lead supervises the daily activities of clinical team. The role ensures that delivered services meet the mission and vision of FHCHC and align with Patient-Centered Medical Home principles.
Primary duties and responsibilities include :
- Monitors and oversees admissions and discharges into services, empanelment of child clinicians, co-signs all appropriate documentation ensuring appropriate utilization of services of the clinical team.
- Runs weekly group supervision for child behavioral health clinicians.
- Offers iterative feedback and yearly clinical evaluations to child behavioral health clinicians
- Manages staff schedules for optimal utilization of staff time and ensures clinical coverage across sites, including for extended clinic hours.
- Monitors staff schedules when staff have time off in order to ensure appropriate clinical coverage.
- Conducts chart audits as part of continuous quality improvement focused on ensuring that third party payer compliance requirements (documentation, treatment plans, and medical necessity) are met regularly and that clinical goals are met.
- Provides and ensures the ongoing appropriateness and quality of client care.
- Assists in the development and ongoing revision of the program services and policies.
- Oversees implementation of new services offered through the program.
- Integrates the child services with other service programs within FHCHC and with external providers of behavioral health and medical care.
- Reviews treatment plans and other case records of staff to provide advice, direction and consultation and to ensure that work is being performed according to established policies and compliant with oversight bodies.
- Provides individual weekly or bi-weekly supervision to clinical team members when needed; for those who require specific supervision due to licensure or clinical area of focus, facilitates those connections and scheduling
- Demonstrates advanced Integrated Mental Health and Dual Disorders Treatment competencies.
- Assists Director of Behavioral Health or their designee in interviews and hiring new staff.
- Ensures appropriate staff education relevant to service provision.
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American with Disabilities Requirements :
External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job specific functions (listed within each job specific responsibility) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by the organization on a case by case basis.
Fair Haven Community Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FHCHC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
