Job type: Full-time

Description

***Effective October 15, 2021, all employees/contractors/interns/volunteers are required to provide our office with proof of COVID vaccination.***

COMHAR's Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) is located in the Philadelphia are. IBHS support children, youth, and young adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs. Services are provide to children, youth, and young adults across all settings (at the home, school, and community settings) in order to both help them reduce and/or replace problem behaviors with more positive, socially appropriate behaviors, with the highest priority placed on family engagement throughout the process. 

COMHAR’s Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) has an immediate opening for an License Clinical Supervisor.  

License Clinical Supervisor Salary: 

$55,000-$57,000

The License IBHS Clinical Supervisor is responsible for assisting the Clinical Coordinator in ensuring the overall quality of clinical services and documentation of services provided in Children’s Services Department.  This includes the following:

• Chart monitoring to ensure that treatment plans, progress summaries, discharge summaries are in line with the Network Inclusion Criteria Standards for Excellence.
• Providing feedback and training to clinicians and Behavioral Health Technicians while reviewing areas of needed improvement.
• Track and monitor the completion of outstanding paperwork i.e. Tx plans.
• Review with Care Coordinators issues that may have led to services being reduced or denied.
• Assignment or re-assignment of cases.
• IBHS Clinical Supervisor will conduct quality reviews, which shall include chart audits as well as quality review phone calls to consumers.

 License Clinical Supervisor SPECIFIC DUTIES:

• Complete and update treatment plan tracking list, along with distribution of list to clinicians
• Complete initial treatment plans
• Conduct random chart audits.

Education and Engagement:

Ensuring that clinicians perform the following:

• Engage individuals who may be at-risk and provide age-appropriate education and supports.
• Assist in the orientation process for persons who are new to receiving mental health services
• Assess individuals in their abilities, strengths, and assets towards the development of a plan that addresses all domains of an individual’s life.
• Assist individuals in identifying their personal interests and goals using motivational interviewing. Clinicians will continue to utilize goal sheets to ensure that clients have a strong understanding of treatment planning process. Provide individual and group counseling, mentoring instruction, training, feedback and positive reinforcement for individuals in areas such as conflict resolution, problem-solving and anger-management.
• Educate individuals on evidenced based practices.
• Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and competence and be able to effectively preserve the rights of individuals to make choices.

Community Integration:

Ensuring that Clinicians and Behavioral Health Technicians perform the following:

• Assist and support individuals in utilizing educational and support groups, activities deemed beneficial for clients.
• Work closely with school, camp and community organizations in developing partnerships
• Promote individuals’ utilization of community resources and peer supports outside of the facility to promote community integration,
• Support the individual and engage families, friends, and significant others in connecting with community resources in learning how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships

 Advocacy/Case Management:

Ensuring that clinicians and Behavioral Health Technicians perform the following:

• Mediates and advocates on behalf of the individual to help him/her obtain quality services.
• Support individuals in identifying their areas of need for treatment services.
• Identify Barriers to full participation and develop strategies to overcome them.
• Actively participate in team meetings and engage individual, other team members, and family/significant others to provide input.

 Follow-Up:

 Ensuring that clinicians perform the following:

• Inform Clinical Coordinator of clients who are unavailable for 2 consecutive visits.  Will discuss with Clinical Coordinator a plan for effectively engaging the family.
• Provide re-engagement support if needed
• Follow-up on crisis situations

 Training and Supervision

• Ensure that Clinicians are providing consistent “documented supervision of Behavioral Health Technicians.
• Participate in and complete all CBH mandatory in-services
• Keep supervisor informed of all potential problematic situations/concerns/issues
• Keep supervisor and team members informed about individuals’ strengths, accomplishments and obstacles they are experiencing obtaining their goals.

Documentation:

Ensuring that Clinicians and Behavioral Health Technicians workers perform the following:

• Be aware of and follow COMHAR policies and procedures including those regarding confidentiality, HIPPA, compliance, personal policies, etc.

Policies and Procedures:

Ensuring that Clinicians, Care Coordinators and Behavioral Health Technicians workers perform the following:

• Participate in quality improvement and data gathering, e.g., surveys, self-assessments.

A License Clinical Supervisor in COMHAR’s Children’s Services Department shall have a minimum of 1 year of full-time postgraduate experience in the provision of mental health direct service to children, youth or young adults and meet one of the following:

• Be licensed in this Commonwealth as a physician practicing psychiatry, psychologist, professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, certified registered nurse practitioner with a mental health certification or clinical social worker.
• Be licensed in this Commonwealth as a behavior specialist and have a graduate degree that required a clinical or mental health direct service practicum from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or have an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated by the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. or the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. The Department will accept a general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalency.
• Be licensed in this Commonwealth as a social worker and have a graduate degree that required a clinical or mental health direct service practicum from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or have an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated by the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. or the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. The Department will accept a general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalency.
• Be licensed in this Commonwealth as a professional with a scope of practice that includes overseeing the provision of IBHS and have a graduate degree that required a clinical or mental health direct service practicum from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or have an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated by the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. or the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. The Department will accept a general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalency.

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace. COMHAR, Inc. is a not-for-profit community based health and human service organization founded in 1975. We do not discriminate in services or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, past or present receipt of disability-related services or supports, marital status, veteran status, or any other class of persons protected by federal, state or local law.