Supv - Psych Clinician / LCSW

Northern Light Acadia Hospital

Department : Pediatric Therapy Clinic

Position is located : Acadia

Work Type : Full Time

Hours Per Week : 40.00

Work Schedule : 8 : 00 AM to 4 : 30 PM

SIGN-ON BONUS AVAILABLE FOR QUALIFIED CANDIDATES

Summary :

The Clinical Supervisor serves as both a discipline expert and skilled clinician within their program area and a clinical supervisor for frontline clinicians. As direct care providers they function as advocates, brokers, educators and treatment specialists and have demonstrated clinical competencies at all levels of care within the hospital. In their supervisory role, they provide individual and group clinical supervision, and help to ensure that services are patient centered, aligned with Northern Light Acadia Hospital / Healthcare clinical philosophies, evidence-based, and outcome-informed.

Responsibilities :

• Possess a vast clinical knowledge base about the population served in their program area(s).
• Demonstrate the ability to shift between roles of a practicing therapist and clinical supervisor. This role is 50% supervisory and 50% direct care.
• Complete and review clinical documentation content that reflects high-quality patient care including but not limited to psychiatric evaluations, psychosocial assessments, treatment plans and progress notes.
• Implement flexible yet targeted supervision models to continually develop the professional skills of the providers under their direct supervision.
• Provides case consultations, clinical reviews, makes recommendations for interventions with complicated and repeating clients.
• Educates and monitors employee treatment plan competencies.
• Ensures documentation includes clear, concise communication of updated diagnoses, progress toward recovery, and treatment recommendations to patient and patient's primary care provider.
• Establishes and maintains clinical staff competencies and treatment program fidelity to evidence-based practice models.
• Ensures assessment, treatment planning, and discharge planning on all patients served is completed according to regulations, Hospital / Healthcare policies and client / family perceptions of needs.
• Establishes and ensures program practices that facilitate consistent communication and collaboration with Acadia Hospital programs, community provider systems and contracted entity providers.
• Ensures department-wide, consistent and appropriate use of approved, validated screening tools, including risk assessment, as required.
• Other Duties.

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Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a broad behavioral health delivery system centrally managed from its location in Bangor, Maine. Acadia Hospital is a leader in providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, tele-psychiatry, consultations to regional emergency departments, school-based and employer-based services, and integration into primary and specialty care practices. Northern Light Acadia Hospital offers innovative programming in the form of eating disorder services and a geriatric mood and memory clinic, which is involved in multiple clinical trials for promising Alzheimer's medications. The hospital is also the parent organization of Northern Light Acadia Healthcare which provides a substance use disorder treatment program, case management, and other outpatient mental health services serving patients from all corners of Maine. Acadia Hospital embraces service excellence and high quality care as evidenced by its commitment to achieve Center of Excellence status in the delivery of behavioral health services.

Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a member of Northern Light Health, an integrated statewide health delivery system that is raising the bar with no-nonsense solutions that are leading the way to a healthier future for our state. Northern Light Health offers a broad range of providers and services, including ten hospitals, primary care and specialty physician practices, long-term care, home health and hospice agencies, and emergency ground and air transport.

Bangor, Maine is a vibrant small city with easy access to Maine's spectacular coast, mountains, and lakes. Schools rank among New England's best with the flagship campus of the University of Maine located in the neighboring town of Orono. Bangor serves as the regional hub for medicine, the arts, and commerce. Bangor International Airport offers direct and one-stop service to many major destinations.

Bangor, Maine, Behavioral Health, Mental Health, Addiction, Adult and Ped