Kitsap Mental Health Services Careers

Description

• Provide supervision to SUDP/Ts on all phases of recovery and evidence-based SUD treatment practices. Modalities may include individual & family therapy, group therapy, psycho-educational workshops, recovery skill-building groups, and crisis intervention. 
• Manage referrals to PHRC, review ASAM evaluations, triage the waitlist, and streamline processes to ensure clients access care in a timely manner. 
• Provide regular individual supervision. Document and keep records of significant interactions. Complete performance appraisals within KMHS standards and timelines.
• Promote the enhancement of positive staff morale by facilitating a timely response to problems, ensuring thorough and accurate internal communications, and providing opportunities for staff recognition.
• Conduct an ongoing review of clinical charts and all SUDP-specific documentation and ASAM to assure quality, accuracy, and compliance.
• Assist in hiring, training, coaching, developing, evaluating and correction of staff. 
• Participate in program development and curriculum development.
• Directly supervise assigned reports to facilitate coverage or personally provide coverage as needed.
• For continuity of care, facilitate shift reports during pass-downs to ensure clients’ progress is communicated across shifts at PHRC.
• Facilitate a common language within the unit as to assessing acuity, risk, and methods of intervention.
• Work closely with the program leadership, MHPs, shift supervisors, and others to organize a cohesive crisis intervention, including assessing for a higher level of care.
• Provide substance use disorder individual sessions, groups, and psycho-educational classes as needed.

• 4-6 direct reports
• SUDP/Ts, SUDP Peers, Discharge Planners
• Hiring, interviewing, coaching, training, scheduling and supervision of direct reports. Collaborate with program director in annual performance review process.

• Maintain a working knowledge and skill in verbal de-escalation skills and other agency-mandated training.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of psychotropic medications and their side effects and contraindications with drugs of abuse and report any relevant observations to care team medical personnel.
• Pursue professional growth and development by seeking out learning opportunities, coordinate with the unit manager to share with the team, and if approved, integrate into work practices. 
• Maintain working knowledge of current Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health treatment recommendations, and trends in community mental health, including health care reform, electronic medical records, and computer technology.

• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other employees, clients, organizations, and the public.
• Communicates clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrate ability to work efficiently and effectively, organizing workload by prioritizing and managing multiple tasks.  Maintain productivity standards as established by policy and evaluated by the unit manager.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners such as Mobile Crisis Outreach Team, housing team, treatment teams, AIU, Residential, KMHS Medical Providers, Probation, KRC, other community-based treatment providers, law enforcement, and medical community to assist those whom we serve in their recovery process.