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Join the McNabb Center Team as the McMinn Area School Based Team Leader today!

The McMinn Area School Based Team Leader today

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 Summary

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.

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.

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.

COMPENSATION:

• Starting salary for this position is approximately $56,970 /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 - McMinn Area 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:

• McMinn County, Tennessee

Apply today to work where we care about you as an employee and where your hard work makes a difference!

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.