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Supervising Clinician Bilingual (Spanish Speaking)

State of Connecticut Executive Branch
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Looking for the next step in your career? Join us and be part of a revolutionary team shaping the future! The Southwest Connecticut Mental Health System (SWCMHS), under the umbrella of the State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) is seeking a qualified individual for the position of Supervising Clinician (PCN 105419) to join our team. This position will provide a clinical supervision for our Young Adult Services Unit.

 

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS:

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

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  • Professional growth and development opportunities.
  • A healthy work/life balance to all employees.

 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

  • Overseeing a multidisciplinary team serving 125 clients with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and Acquired Brain Injury/Traumatic Brain Injury in an outpatient urban setting.
  • Ensuring thorough and timely documentation, billable services, assessments, quality treatment plans, scheduling, and clinical skill-building groups.
  • Maintaining The Joint Commission standards, managing staff performance (including conducting annual and quarterly evaluations), promoting family involvement, providing staff education, and coordinating unit activities.
  • Developing effective professional relationships with community representatives and resources, and assisting with the integration of community supports, such as employment, education, and housing.

MORE ABOUT THE AGENCY AND FACILITIES:

The State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), is a health care agency whose mission is to promote the overall health and wellness of persons with behavioral health needs through an integrated network of holistic, comprehensive, effective, and efficient services and supports that foster dignity, respect, and self-sufficiency in those we serve.

\With three locations throughout Fairfield County, the Southwest Connecticut Mental Health System (SWCMHS), promotes and administers comprehensive recovery oriented services in the areas of mental health treatment and substance abuse prevention and treatment. These services include inpatient treatment programs and outpatient clinical services, as well as a wide range of additional supportive treatment services.

The Young Adult Services (YAS) program is designed to provide age appropriate, clinical and residential support services to young adults with behavioral health disorders between the ages of 18-25, providing intensive recovery oriented services that take into account developmental processes, the impact of traumas, and family issues.  YAS provides a wide range of services including clinical, employment, educational and rehabilitative support.  YAS is designed to prevent these consumers from being “lifelong members” of the mental health service systems.  Persons referred for services come through the Southwest Connecticut Mental Health System Community Outreach and Engagement Service or through the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Office of the Commissioner’s central referral process.  In both instances, these are usually youth who have been in residential treatment through the Department of Children and Families, in foster care, and/or in the juvenile justice system.  YAS services include:

 

  • Intensive Community Supports
  • Clinical Services
  • Residential Supports
  • Community Support Program
  • Educational Services
  • Vocational Services
  • Psychiatric/Medication Services
  • Social Rehabilitation

 

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Please note:

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE

Seven (7) years of professional health care experience in a psychiatric setting.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SPECIAL EXPERIENCE

Two (2) years of the General Experience must have been at a lead level responsible for coordinating the work of a unit or team of professionals in a psychiatric setting.

NOTE: For state employees this experience is interpreted at the level of an Advanced Clinical Social Worker for social work discipline, Head Nurse for the nursing discipline, an Advanced Professional Counselor and an Advanced Marital and Family Therapist.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED

  • College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor's degree.
  • A Master's Degree in a health care field related to one of the disciplines in the Special Experience may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bilingual (Spanish Speaking).
  • Experience in a community-based outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment.
  • Experience in clinical best practices including crisis assessment, and risk assessment.
  • Experience with staff supervision and development
  • Experience with global cultural awareness, cross-cultural communication skills, and diverse, multicultural environments.
  • Experience working with interfacing community providers, local hospitals, Police Departments, and outpatient clinical teams.
  • Experience using an Electronic Medical Record (WITS) and other proprietary software.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a current license as a Clinical Social Worker, a licensed Marital and Family Therapist, a licensed Professional Counselor, or as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Connecticut. The license required for direct supervision of clinical oversight will be dictated by the functions of the assigned unit or program.