Clinical Mental Health Supervisor

Position/Job Summary:

The Clinical Mental Health Supervisor provides clinical administration and management to our mental health services program for children and their families; clinical supervision of mental health therapists and skills trainers. This position assists the Clinical Manager with the intake process and case assignments, provides direct clinical services to clients, and provides consultation on all administrative and clinical aspects of mental health services. 

Position/Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Implements short-term and long-term goals and program objectives, deciding how to best use resources to achieve successful outcomes.
• Imparts knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with professionalism and models appropriate behavior for addressing errors and engages supervisee in a two-way discussion.
• Ensures completion of all clinical documentation in accordance with state, federal and organizational requirements, with an emphasis on collaborative documentation.
• Engages supervisee in discussions of ethical and legal decision-making and professional values.
• Models respect for supervisees’ diversity, emotional experience, and clinical decision-making.
• Holds supervisees accountable for behavior and teaches supervisee to accept responsibility for actions.
• Recognizes personal strengths and limitations, feelings and needs.
• Verbally and non-verbally de-escalates crisis situations in a manner that protects dignity and integrity.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize professional limitations and seeks supervision when appropriate.
• Uses scheduled supervision constructively, responds nondefensively and applies supervisory feedback.
• Is present and punctual for work and/or meetings. Works well within a team environment, sharing workload, credit, and opportunities.
• Completes other duties as assigned to ensure successful operation of program/department.
• Demonstrate a commitment to developing a thorough knowledge and application of the Sanctuary model and other organizational policies & practices.   
• Participate in staff development, in-services, and training related to equity and inclusion in the workplace; model appropriate behaviors; develop, recommend, and implement improvements to business practices with awareness and understanding of the impact in a trauma-informed and culturally diverse organization.  

Competencies: 

• Demonstrates substantial knowledge of relevant clinical practices, diagnoses, therapeutic interventions and is able to model and train supervisees.
• Demonstrates and models the ability to develop and maintain clear role boundaries and an appropriate balance between consultation and training within the supervisory relationship.
• Demonstrates the ability to analyze and evaluate skills and performance of supervisees including the ability to confront and correct unsuitable actions and interventions on the part of the supervisees.
• Understands challenges that supervisees working within the field face and help supervisees identify and prevent experiences of secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, or burnout.
• Behaves professionally (demeanor, dress, language, commitments, etc.).
• Acknowledges and respects the diversity of all individuals and demonstrate openness to providing culturally responsive care and treatment to clients and their families.
• Makes clinical, programmatic and risk management decisions that reflect sensitivity for individuality, age, development, culture and human diversity, while also insuring a safe and growth promoting environment.

Required Position Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field
• Minimum 3 years of post-graduate experience providing direct treatment in a mental health setting, 1 year of which must be working with children and adolescents
• Eligible for OR LPC, LCSW, or LMFT License within 1 year of hire

Preferred Position Qualifications: 

For positions that require driving:

• Must hold valid driver’s license— Oregon or Washington within 30 days of hire