Supervising Clinician (40 Hour)

The State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) is hiring a Supervising Clinician to join their team. The role requires administrative and clinical expertise, excellent verbal/written communication skills, and the ability to manage and interface with staff, DCF, contracted providers, community members, clients, and their families. The position is part of a comprehensive team of caring professionals that provides holistic, comprehensive, effective, and efficient services and supports to those with behavioral health needs.

What You Will Do

The Supervising Clinician will schedule, assign, and oversee the work of staff, assist in developing unit goals and objectives, conduct performance evaluations, determine priorities and plans, coordinate and supervise unit activities, develop relationships with and act as liaison to other operating units, agencies, and outside officials, community representatives, and customers. The role also involves mediating conflict impacting on service recipients, ensuring staff ability to access and employ community resources, integrating community resources into service planning and delivery, identifying barriers, and developing strategies and solutions for improving client care.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have considerable knowledge of relevant agency policies and procedures, mental health treatment, principles, and values of community-based care, psychiatric rehabilitation principles, entitlement and benefit programs, variety of intervention and support strategies, relevant state and federal laws, statutes, and regulations, societal, cultural, and gender issues, and impact on mental illness, psychotropic medications, impact of housing and homelessness on the mentally ill. The candidate should also possess interpersonal skills, oral and written communications skills, facilitation, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills, and the ability to identify and articulate philosophical foundations for specific program models or service approaches, delegate authority, plan and organize effectively, integrate community resources into service planning, and develop and maintain effective relationships with community representatives and staff.

Requirements

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

Benefits

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