Purpose:

The purpose of this job is to provide direct clinical and administrative supervision to behavioral health therapists. As appropriate, provide clinical outpatient treatment designed to service patients with a mental health diagnosis who meet dimensions for outpatient and/or partial hospitalization treatment criteria. Acts as a senior member of the therapy team.

South Side Acute Partial and IOP supports adolescents experiencing acute symptoms of depression and anxiety. Our program supports adolescents in stabilizing their mental health before stepping down to a lower level of care, such as outpatient. A main goal of our program is to assist adolescents in maintaining safety without the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

Our programs are empirically based and focus on teaching adolescents’ skills Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Our program also offers expressive therapies in the form of our Mindfulness Garden and Matt’s Maker Space which is utilized by our therapists to engage patients in art therapy.

Our treatment team is made up of:

·       Mental Health Workers who facilitate group therapy and support our patients on the milieu

·       Behavioral Health Therapists who facilitate family therapy sessions, individual therapy sessions, and coordinate follow up care

·       The Developmental Specialist who assists patients in completion of school work and coordinates care with the patients home school district

·       Psychiatric nurses who support day to day medication and health concerns

·       Psychiatrists who provide psychiatric evaluations and medication management while the patients are in the program.

Responsibilities:

·       Provide oversight and as appropriate, conduct/document assessments, create treatment plans, assess changing needs of patients per guidelines for outpatient and/or partial hospitalization programs, participate in treatment team meetings, provide individual and group therapy, complete clinical documentation on the same day of service delivery, provide clinical information to patient access representative personnel and insurance providers to ensure authorization for services, reviews cases and/or groups periodically, as well as serious clinical patient condition changes with Director and as indicated.

·       Assess need for additional services with the clinical team to determine appropriateness of recommendations. Refers patients to other levels of care, community based self-help programs for recovery or other community social or human services as needed.

·       Maintain daily records of clinical productivity in the program as instructed.

·       Participate in the quality assurance and performance improvement activities of the program.

·       Direct and assign daily work of all behavioral health therapists, performing annual performance reviews and enforcing unit and personnel policies and procedures.

·       Provide operational support by participating in the recruitment process for new employees, coordinating the flow of new admissions, coordinating regular treatment team meetings and supervising the daily clinical activities of the program as instructed. This may include but not be limited to the oversight of clinician caseload management, group census, treatment plan quality, risk master reports, and the batch error process.

·       Alert management of issues by meeting regularly with director to review cases, reviewing clinical problems with director, and reviewing any staff problems with director.

·       On occasion, assumes leadership of the program in the absence of the Director to ensure the care of the patients, the continuity of service delivery and the safety of the patients, staff and community, as instructed.

·       Collaborate with leadership to complete annual training needs assessment per program guidelines.

·       Takes a lead role in providing staff in-service training to the treatment team, as directed. Involved in system wide training and education initiatives outside of the scope of normal clinical responsibilities.

·       Under the guidance of the Director, Clinical Administrator or designee, provides direct clinical and administrative supervision to individual behavioral health therapists and therapy teams to ensure the care of the patients, the continuity of service delivery and the safety of the patients, staff and community, as instructed. Incorporates evidence-based treatment into the clinical supervisory process related to, teaching, practicing, etc.

·       *Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.

·       *Performs other duties as assigned.