What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Supervisor (Manhattan) position at Evidence Based Associates?
Clinical Supervisor of Kaplan House
PURPOSE:
The Kaplan House (Manhattan) provides therapeutic and support services to adolescent’s ages 17-21 who are referred to us through ACS and the Juvenile Justice system. Our residents have experienced significant trauma, resulting in behavioral, emotional, and functional/ development issues. Kaplan House offers an extensive independent living skills program, including vocational preparation, and educational services that assists youth towards reaching independence.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Clinical Supervisor has clinical and administrative responsibility for a residential program unit, under the supervision and direction of the Director. The Supervisor is responsible for carrying a small caseload, supervising clinical staff, ensuring the provision of psychotherapeutic, psychiatric and case management services for residents, overseeing administrative processes, and participating in various administrative and team conferences.
Address: 74 Saint Marks Place, New York, NY 10003
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):
Team Process
Documentation
CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
Additional Qualifications Needed:
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:
SALARY: $88,000 -
BENEFITS:
PURPOSE:
The Kaplan House (Manhattan) provides therapeutic and support services to adolescent’s ages 17-21 who are referred to us through ACS and the Juvenile Justice system. Our residents have experienced significant trauma, resulting in behavioral, emotional, and functional/ development issues. Kaplan House offers an extensive independent living skills program, including vocational preparation, and educational services that assists youth towards reaching independence.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Clinical Supervisor has clinical and administrative responsibility for a residential program unit, under the supervision and direction of the Director. The Supervisor is responsible for carrying a small caseload, supervising clinical staff, ensuring the provision of psychotherapeutic, psychiatric and case management services for residents, overseeing administrative processes, and participating in various administrative and team conferences.
Address: 74 Saint Marks Place, New York, NY 10003
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):
- Provide weekly clinical supervision to case planners and case managers
- Teach and monitor supervisee’s screening, assessment and monitoring of all safety related concerns with residents
- Ensure that case planners oversee provision of all counseling, vocational/educational, psychiatric and recreational services to residents
- Ensure case managers are completing required home visits and face to face contacts with resources
- Ensure case managers are presenting the agency professionally and responsibly at criminal and/or family court hearings
- Meet with assigned residents for weekly sessions, engage and remain in contact with their parents, ensure that home visits are completed, vocational/educational, psychiatric, recreational services provided and address any safety and risk concerns
- Assist supervisees in engaging families in planning for services and complying with ACS outreach requirements
- Assist supervisees as necessary, in identifying and providing access to specific concrete services and community resources
- Advocate, as necessary, with external resources such as mental health providers, treatment facilities, FCLS, community members, etc on behalf of residents
- Attend family court hearings when additional support is requested
- Assist in the development and implementation of specialized groups related to the needs of residents and their families
- Attend conferences at ACS offices and other community-based meetings.
- Attend ACS and JB trainings as required.
- Participates in internal and external continuous quality improvement projects.
- Make reports to State Central Registry or Justice Center as needed.
- Complete all other duties as needed and requested
- Participate in training and implementation of the Integrated Treatment Model (ITM)
Team Process
- Lead or co-lead, and attend all group supervisions, treatment team meetings, family treatment conferences, transfer conferences, incident review meetings, ITM planning meetings and administrative meetings
- Work jointly with medical, DSPs, psychiatric and vocational/educational departments to ensure provision of services to residents
Documentation
- Teach, revise, and ensure accurate and timely completion of all clinical documents under the responsibility of clinical staff, included and not limited to, progress notes, treatment plans, transitional plans, safety plans, court updates, etc.
- Review and ensure completion of accurate and timely Family Assessment Service Plan Reports (FASP) and Permanency Hearing Reports (PHR)
- Ensure completion and review of agency internal Incident Reports in Alltrac system.
- Complete progress notes in CONNECTIONS and MyAvatar, as well as review those of supervisee’s
- Maintain weekly supervision notes and complete all supervisee’s evaluations in a timely fashion
- Complete ACS Connections monthly supervisory reviews for all residents
CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
- Team player
- Function from a strength-based approach with residents, supervisees, and colleagues
- Utilize coaching approach with residents, supervisees, and colleagues
- Able to show respect and compassion for residents, supervisees, and colleagues
- Able to function under stressful situations
- Able to see crisis through resolution of incidents
- Able to prioritize and organize
- Display initiative and consistency in practice
- Display strong engagement skills
- Has strong verbal and written skills
- Able to pay attention to details
- Open to learning new tasks
- Licensed Masters level degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related field.
- Evening hours are required, on occasion.
Additional Qualifications Needed:
- Driver’s License
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):
- Microsoft Office
- Connections (preferred)
- Ability to learn Electronic Health Record (MyAvatar)
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:
- Position will alternate between regularly scheduled remote and in-person work in one or more Bronx locations
- Group home setting
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) training to be provided
- CPR training to be provided
- NARCAN training to be provided
- Ability to walk up and down stairs
SALARY: $88,000 -
BENEFITS:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 403B Retirement Plan
- Access to CEU's with no cost to you!
- 3 weeks vacation
EBA’s mission is to support families and strengthen communities through the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs). As a ‘production company’, we focus on the implementation issues back stage so that EBPs and community-based providers can be the ‘stars’ on stage. Over the past 20 years, EBA has served multiple states and counties in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, and behavioral health.
EBA offers a team of professionals with backgrounds in social services, juvenile justice, evidence-based programs, information technology and human resources. EBA’s interdisciplinary team brings a combined total of more than 150 years of experience in clinical services and program management related to community-based and evidence-based programs.
Salary : $88,000
