Morrison Child and Family Services Careers

Description

Job Title:  Clinical Supervisor 

Department/Program:  Outpatient

Reports to:  Clinical Manager

Work location: Gresham 

FLSA status: Exempt / Salaried 

Salary: 

Position/Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Implements short-term and long-term goals and program objectives, deciding how to best use resources to achieve successful outcomes.
• Imparts knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with professionalism and models appropriate behavior for addressing errors and engages supervisee in a two-way discussion.

• Ensures completion of all clinical documentation in accordance with state, federal and organizational requirements, with an emphasis on collaborative documentation.
• Engages supervisee in discussions of ethical and legal decision-making and professional values.
• Models respect for supervisees’ diversity, emotional experience, and clinical decision-making.
• Holds supervisees accountable for behavior and teaches supervisee to accept responsibility for actions.
• Recognizes personal strengths and limitations, feelings and needs.
• Verbally and non-verbally de-escalates crisis situations in a manner that protects dignity and integrity.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize professional limitations and seeks supervision when appropriate.
• Uses scheduled supervision constructively, responds nondefensively and applies supervisory feedback.
• Is present and punctual for work and/or meetings. Works well within a team environment, sharing workload, credit, and opportunities.
• Demonstrates and models the Sanctuary principles.
• Completes other duties as assigned to ensure successful operation of program/department.
• Will carry up to a .5 caseload (20-25 clients max) 
• Demonstrate a commitment to developing a thorough knowledge and application of the Sanctuary model and other organizational policies & practices.  
• Participate in staff development, in-services, and training related to equity and inclusion in the workplace; model appropriate behaviors; develop, recommend, and implement improvements to business practices with awareness and understanding of the impact in a trauma-informed and culturally diverse organization. 
• Other duties and projects, as assigned. 

Competencies:

• Demonstrates substantial knowledge of relevant clinical practices, diagnoses, therapeutic interventions and is able to model and train supervisees.
• Demonstrates and models the ability to develop and maintain clear role boundaries and an appropriate balance between consultation and training within the supervisory relationship.
• Demonstrates the ability to analyze and evaluate skills and performance of supervisees including the ability to confront and correct unsuitable actions and interventions on the part of the supervisees.
• Understands challenges that supervisees working within the field face and help supervisees identify and prevent experiences of secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, or burnout.
• Behaves professionally (demeanor, dress, language, commitments, etc.).
• Acknowledges and respects the diversity of all individuals and demonstrate openness to providing culturally responsive care and treatment to clients and their families.
• Makes clinical, programmatic and risk management decisions that reflect sensitivity for individuality, age, development, culture and human diversity, while also insuring a safe and growth promoting environment.

Required Position Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field 
• Current Oregon licensed mental health professional or a current professional mental health license in another state with the ability to obtain Oregon licensure within 6 months of employment
• Three years of direct treatment experience in a mental health setting working with children and adolescents

Preferred Position Qualifications:

• Bilingual in Spanish, both written and spoken
• One year of experience providing clinical supervision and/or program management
• Experience training in a group setting

Other Requirements:

• May require evening work or hours in excess of routine schedule in order to ensure optimal program operations and service delivery
• Able to pass a comprehensive criminal history background investigation
• Must pass language testing if applicable

• Ability to travel between agency locations in a timely manner. 

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to sit, use hands and fingers, reach with arms; talk and hear. Visual abilities include close and distance vision. Occasionally this position requires walking, stooping, bending and lifting, up to 10 pounds, without assistance.

Work environment: May involve exposure to communicable diseases that can encompass a variety of infections and illnesses, including the common cold, flu, TB, Hepatitis A, B and/or C, meningitis, and HIV. May involve exposure to angry, upset, and/or severely traumatized children, adolescents and families. May require some crisis intervention and therapeutic de-escalation of children, resulting in the possibility of personal injury. Home-based work may involve exposure to environments that are not drug free/non-smoking. Outside weather conditions during travel time.

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