Clinical Supervisor - SAGE

Description :

Days Off : Saturday, Sunday

Shift : Day

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.

JOB DEFINITION :

In conjunction with the SAGE Program Manager and other supervisors, a supervisor of the SAGE program oversees all aspects of long-term case management services, and works closely with other DESC programs to assure successful coordination of care and promotion of recovery to the highest degree possible.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Assist SAGE Program Manager in planning, implementation and coordination of long-term case management mental health services at the agency.
• Support and train case management staff toward improved care standards and practice skills.
• Coordinate with DESC programs to assure successful transition of consumers to long-term case management.
• Coordinate and participate in psychiatric consultations, clinical supervisions, program meetings, and in-service training of mental health program staff; participate in clinical reviews and case conferences.
• Coordinate schedule for all aspects of long-term mental health services, including scheduling of individual team members and coverage of office and drop-in center areas.
• Schedule and conduct quarterly quality assurance reviews of charts of long-term case management consumers.
• Supervise and review team clinical documentation to assure that team members maintain current and complete clinical records, and that records comply with the agency's clinical accountability policies and procedures.
• Oversee compliance with documentation requirements of relevant WACs, King County, PHP and other funding sources (as applicable), in conjunction with Clinical Programs Contracts and Quality Assurance Manager.
• Provide individual supervision and consultation for team members.
• Conduct performance evaluations of clinical staff on scheduled basis and keep supporting documentation in confidential files.
• Participate as a regular member of various committees to assure efficient, accurate, and quality work performed by self and supervisees.
• Track various matters through chart review and database reports to assure timeliness and accuracy of program work.
• Maintain familiarity with agency and mental health system policies and procedures and assure adherence to these procedures. Identify need, and advocate for, modification to procedures.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with human service organizations that provide resources needed by mental health consumers, and with other agencies in the mental health and social service system.
• Provide clinical case management services for a small caseload, and, as needed to support team members.
• Collaborate with non-mental health DESC staff to ensure tight continuity of care for consumers using other DESC services.
• Teach and promote outreach services and active integration of recovery-based service with all clients.
• Other duties as assigned.

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.

Requirements :

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

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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Compensation details : 92270.16-104395.2 Yearly Salary

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