Behavioral Health Clinic Supervisor

StartCare; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

StartCare in Brooklyn, NY seeks an Assistant Clinic Director to oversee clinical operations at the Bushwick clinic, supervise counselors, and ensure high-quality patient engagement and care. This full-time role reports to the Clinic Director and requires strong organizational and supervisory skills.

The position includes administrative leadership, staff training, and involvement in research or program development while maintaining patient confidentiality and privacy guidelines.

Qualifications

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker required.
• Master in Healthcare, Public Health or Business Administration preferred.
• Three years of post-Masters degree experience in the emotional/behavioral assessment and treatment of individuals in a mental health setting, including experience with substance users.
• Minimum of two years of experience as a counseling supervisor.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to problem solve; motivate, develop, and coach individuals and groups; ability to appropriately confront issues; and ability to think creatively.
• Experience in providing and documenting psychological Mental Health Assessments and Screenings including diagnosis as described in the DSM-V; establishing therapeutic relationships with individuals; providing direct treatment services and referrals.

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative backup for Clinic Director as needed including rotating Saturday shift.
• Expected to provide clinic oversight in the event staff are on leave or vacant.
• Supervision of CASAC Counselors and ensure delivery of behavioral health services, oversees case notes and individual case records.
• Provides clinical supervision to the counselors by holding supervisory meetings at least once weekly with a focus on case analysis, person-centered treatment planning, case management, and issues related to the supervisory process.
• Participates in clinical supervision with the Clinic Director once per week.
• Ensures that vocational rehabilitation (when indicated) and resolution of concurrent medical disorders are integrated within each treatment plan.
• Concurrently monitors the quality of patient treatment and reporting documentation in all systems and initiates prompt corrective actions if required.
• Coordinates the release of patient treatment summaries to requesting agencies.
• Attends staff meetings and serves annually on at least one of the agency’s standing committees.
• Participates and assists in the generation, planning, and implementation of research and demonstration proposals and provides feedback on identified corporate priorities.
• Provides staff training to treatment personnel and ensure the implementation of evidence-based practices.
• Ensures staff maintains all patient confidentiality and privacy guidelines.
• Serves as a member or chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Team in the development of the patient's treatment plan.
• Ensures the thorough and timely completion of patient treatment and reporting documentation in all systems including HRA-STARS, OASAS-CDS, agency electronic health records system, and manual records as appropriate.
• Studies medical and behavioral histories and provides guidance on bio-psycho-social assessment to the Counselors.
• Provides initial mental health screenings for all patients prior to admission.
• Provides initial, annual, and crisis mental health evaluations for identified patients.
• Effects improved patient care by selecting the appropriate therapeutic approach and providing individual and group sessions (when necessary), crisis therapy, and marital/family therapy (when indicated), on an ongoing, time-limited, or crisis intervention level.
• Provides a network of referrals for those patients needing out-patient, in-patient, residential, or emergency psychiatric services, ensures patient coordination and follow-up, and monitors progress monthly with external providers.
• Coordinates referrals and follow-ups for those patients who require concurrent chemical dependency services.

Skills

Computer skills

Bilingual

Education

Master in Healthcare, Public Health or Business Administration

Tools

HRA-STARS

OASAS-CDS

Electronic health records system

Microsoft Office

Job description

StartCare in Brooklyn, NY seeks an Assistant Clinic Director to oversee clinical operations at the Bushwick clinic, supervise counselors, and ensure high-quality patient engagement and care. This full-time role reports to the Clinic Director and requires strong organizational and supervisory skills.

The position includes administrative leadership, staff training, and involvement in research or program development while maintaining patient confidentiality and privacy guidelines.