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Join the McNabb Center Team as the Bradley County School Based Team Leader today!

The Bradley County School Based Team Leader

Duties:

• Provides direct supervision for Master's Level Liaisons and assigned schools
• Manages internal and external referrals
• Maintains ongoing communication with assigned schools, administrators and community partners
• Ensures supervisees track and submit monthly productivity.
• Conducts individual, family, and group counseling
• Provides advocacy, linkage, and referral services
• Provides mental health assessments
• Participates in IEP and other school related meetings, as applicable.
• Provides parent education
• Maintains appropriate chart records
• Interfaces professionally with school personnel and other agencies and provides therapeutic support
• Completes all documentation in a timely manner
• Upholds center policy and procedures, and CARF standards

JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

Summary of role of team:

• The school based team serves as a treatment team to plan, implement, and evaluate successful interventions for children and families.
• Works alongside school district personnel to identify and collaborate about mental health services to selected schools while providing linkage and coordination to appropriate services.
• The holder of this position will provide individual, family, and group counseling sessions including initiatives that encourage communication, trust building, and responsibility of actions and clinical process of all activities.

Summary of position:

• Serves as the direct supervisor for a team of Master's Level School Base Liaisons and their assigned schools.
• Interfaces with the school system and other agencies to increase cooperation and consistency between the home, school, and community.
• Provides administrative duties for The Bradley McMinn, Meigs and Rhea County School-Based Program including caseload responsibilities, training of new staff members and continued staff development, monthly reporting in house and to the State for SBBHL program monitoring, and the promotion of the program with outside agencies.
• Conducts administrative and clinical supervision to a team of school-based liaison counselors. The holder of this position will be required to do the listed job duties and other responsibilities as assigned by his/her direct supervisor:
• Provides oversight for assigned clinicians and will serve as clinician for a small caseload and coverage as needed. When in the role as a clinician, will be expected to maintain same standards as the master's level liaisons to include providing counseling/liaison services to a predetermined number of children/youth and families in the Bradley, McMinn, Meigs, and Rhea County Schools system.
• Clinician provides weekly individual and family psychotherapy to children and adolescents ages 4-18 with a mental health diagnosis. Clinician is to provide psychosocial assessments for clients and provides diagnosis and appropriate referrals for clients assessed, as needed.
• Clinician provides crisis intervention and emergency services as needed. Interfaces with the school system and other agencies to increase cooperation and consistency between home, school, and community.
• The School-Based Behavioral Health Level Liaison/ Counselor provides information and referral, agency linkage, advocacy, home visits, and follow-up services. Treatment modalities used by Master's level clinicians providing therapy services include but are not limited to: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and Play Therapy.
• Provide oversight to assigned child development coordinator for Project BASIC ensuring all grant requirements are met. 
• Provide weekly supervision, oversite and support to staff.

TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS/ENVIRONMENT

Job duties are primarily performed in the office setting, but services are also provided in the school setting, homes, and community. This position is year-round, 40 hours per week and is not limited to the school schedule.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; and employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. Moreover, management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, or working schedules based on their duty to accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Quality Care

• Provides individual/family psycho-therapy for children ages 4-18 as needed on own caseload or for coverage of clinicians assigned to their team:
• Clinician is present and ready to begin session at the appointment time, every session.
• Clinician calls to reschedule any sessions that he/she will be unable to attend or that the consumer missed or canceled 100% of the time.
• Clinician communicates accurate and thorough information to outside agencies 100% of the time when clients need different or more appropriate care that HRMC cannot provide.
• Ensures therapy contacts are completed each month, according to program standards.
• Meets monthly productivity target of 35 sessions.
• Communicates to Services Coordinator in weekly supervision if referrals become low to ensure adequate and timely caseload assignments of clients on referral list
• Meet weekly with direct supervisor to discuss clinical and administrative concerns/changes.

Provides diagnostic Psycho-Social Assessments

• Clinician completes intakes and assessments within 5 business days of contact.
• Assessments will be completed in coordination with Assessment Team and Client Benefits as evidenced by communicating any issues concerning clients or assessment.
• Clinicians will provide intake coverage, as directed by supervisor.

Documentation requirements

• Ensures all family/client participation in treatment planning as evidenced by signatures on treatment plans.
• Create and implement treatment interventions that are reflected in progress note documentation based on the treatment plan goals
• Respond to all flags and e-mails within 2 business days
• Respond to all voice mails within 30 minutes
• If licensed, signing the non-licensed clinicians' treatment plans and being available for clinical consult
• Attend weekly/biweekly treatment teams with school personnel
• Attend monthly treatment teams and staffing meetings with Director/Program Coordinator/Team Leaders.
• Attend and participate in school-based meetings with school personnel and community partners involved in the community schools.

Complete all required clinical documentation in accordance with Center Policy and Procedure and funding source guidelines.

• Contact referrals within 2 business days and complete intakes within 10 days of school referral, as applicable.
• Update treatment plans, crisis plans, DLA-20, and ROI's every 6 months
• Complete and submit productivity summaries to Coordinator by the 3rd business day of the month.
• Complete initial treatment plans within 30 days of intake
• Create daily progress notes and sign in EMR within one week of service provided
• Submit hand generated productivity to Coordinator by the third working business day of the month.

Leadership

• Provides weekly/bi-weekly administrative/clinical supervision to school based services liaison counselors
• Complete and submit written documentation of verbal and written corrections pertaining to staff as needed
• Complete current annual performances appraisals for School-Based staff
• Collects, compiles, and submits monthly productivity reports to direct supervisor by the 3rd business day of each month
• Attends and is timely to multi-disciplinary Team Meetings
• Develops and implements coverage for caseloads when clinicians are out on leave.
• If licensed and credentialed, signing the non-licensed clinicians' treatment plans (as assigned) within 7 days and being available for clinical consult as needed.
• Fill vacancies with qualified candidates within 30 days of opening.
• Ensures updated treatment plans, crisis plans, consent to contact, releases, ROI, and DLA-20 every 6 months as evidence by quarterly quality record reviews for School-Based clients.
• Complete quarterly record reviews for School-Based clients.
• Implements a plan to ensure tracking system for Tx plans for all supervisees to be reviewed in weekly supervisions.
• Manages both internal and external referrals for assigned schools including adding to spreadsheet, creating charts, and contacting clients/families to schedule intakes within 7 days of receipt of referral.
• Maintains communication with representatives of assigned schools to ensure receipt of referrals, update on caseloads and referral list, and to assist in prioritizing referrals.
• Attends weekly supervision with Services Coordinator.
• Assigns clients to clinicians as needed to be reviewed weekly in supervision.
• Manages supervisees and caseloads to ensure productivity goals are met monthly.
• Completes productivity reports for assigned staff monthly.
• Attends mandatory monthly team meetings and takes an active leadership role in co-leading or leading meetings.

COMPENSATION:

Starting salary for this position is approximately $53,699 /yr based on relevant experience and education.

Schedule:

An essential job function is a reliable, predictable 40 hour per week job, on site and in the schools and/or community, with regular attendance.

Travel:

This position requires utilizing a personal dependable vehicle to conduct Center business and maintaining a dependable vehicle and certified driver status is a condition of employment. "F" endorsement is required for community-based services and transportation of clients as needed.

Equipment/Technical Competency:

Must have computer skills in Microsoft Office, e-mail, and internet use.

Equipment/Technology:

Must have computer skills in Microsoft Office, e-mail, and internet use. Ability to utilize electronic medical records.

QUALIFICATIONS - Bradley County School Based Team Leader

Experience / Knowledge:

Must have course work and or experience in the areas of cultural diversity, human development, etiology and treatment of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, and intellectual disabilities. Two-year experience preferred. Experience working with children is preferred although applicants may have other skills and experiences that could accommodate this position. At least one-year Supervisory experience is preferred.

Education / License:

Master's degree in human services or related field with coursework or experience in the areas of cultural diversity, human development, etiology and treatment of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, and intellectual disabilities. Master's degree must be license eligible. Preferred licensed staff. Demonstrated knowledge and competency in mental health service provision and leadership.

Physical/Emotional/Social - Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to effectively and ethically counsel children and families.
• Ability to present professionally and work within a team format to plan, implement, and evaluate successful interventions.
• Ability to effectively run and process groups with children and families.
• Ability to work within a team format to meet positive goals for children and youth while interfacing with other agencies involved in the ecology of the family.
• Must have mental ability to exercise sound judgment under pressure. Ability to exercise effective decision-making, ability to set and demonstrate appropriate boundaries, ability to be an empathic listener, flexibility, willingness, and adaptability to working with diverse populations.
• Must also have the ability to communicate effectively and possess good time management and organizational skills.
• CPR and First Aid Certification will be required.
• This position requires training and certification in and the ability to adequately implement a variety of verbal de-escalation methods and personal/client safety techniques.
• Hearing of normal and soft tones. Close eye work.
• Valid driver's license and F endorsement for transportation of clients. Lifting up to 50lbs. Frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, and reaching.

Location:

Bradley, McMinn, Meigs, and Rhea County, Tennessee

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Helen Ross McNabb Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

Helen Ross McNabb Center conducts background checks, driver's license record, degree verification, and drug screens at hire. Employment is contingent upon clean drug screen, background check, and driving record. Additionally, certain programs are subject to TB Screening and/or testing. Bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply.