Behavioral Health Supervisor

Air Comfort, Inc; Jonestown (MS); On-site; USD 60,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Mississippi Behavioral Health Services, LLC seeks a Behavioral Health Supervisor to coordinate treatment goals with a multidisciplinary team and oversee service delivery. The role involves directing staff, developing care plans, and ensuring timely documentation and compliance.

The supervisor will participate in staff meetings, crisis interventions, and collaborative partnerships with external agencies while maintaining rigorous clinical standards.

Qualifications

• MSW or equivalent mental health degree required.
• Minimum 15 graduate-level credits or practicum in behavioral health interventions.
• Experience coordinating treatment goals with multidisciplinary teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Direct the delivery of services by coordinating treatment goals with MHT, CSS, PSS and other team members.
• Develop treatment goals and interventions.
• Lead Team meetings.
• Review Logs.
• Assign interventions to be completed by MHT, CSS, PSS and other staff.
• Provide training/direction to staff.
• Ensure coordinated services across team members.
• Help complete intake assessments with LMHP oversight.
• Ensure each recipient has an Individual Crisis Plan on file.
• Participate in collaborative meetings with Mississippi Behavioral Health Services staff and other agencies.
• Provide Crisis Intervention services as needed.
• Complete initial and subsequent concurrent authorization paperwork in a timely manner.
• Produce effective clinical documentation of every recipient contact, including no-shows and outreach.
• Learn to use computer for billing or other documentation tasks.
• Document services regularly, concisely and completely by deadlines.
• Attend supervision meetings, trainings and staffing as scheduled.
• Return phone calls promptly.
• Follow all safety rules.
• Participate in all evaluations conducted by Mississippi Behavioral Health Services.

Skills

Team leadership

Clinical documentation

Crisis intervention

Education

Master of Social Work (MSW)

Master of Arts/Science/Education in mental health

Job description

Behavioral Health Supervisor

PROGRAM: Mississippi Behavioral Health Services, LLC

REPORTS TO: Clinical Manager (LMHP)

SUPERVISED BY: Clinical Manager (LMHP); Regional Clinical Director; Corporate Clinical Director; Compliance officer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Direct the delivery of services for recipients by coordinating the implementation of treatment goals with MHT, CSS, PSS and any other team members by:
• Development of treatment goals and interventions
• Leading Team meetings
• Reviewing Logs
• Assigning interventions to be completed by MHT, CSS, PSS and any other staff
• Providing training/direction to staff
• Other activities to ensure each member of the team is providing coordinated services

• Help complete intake assessments with oversight by the LMHP
• Ensure each recipient has an Individual Crisis Plan on file
• Participate in collaborative meetings with Mississippi Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed
• Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed
• Complete initial authorization and all subsequent concurrent authorization assessment paperwork in a timely manner
• Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with the recipient, including the documentation of all “no shows,” attempts to contact, and other recipient-specific interactions, including collaboration with any outside/community agencies or resources, whether billable or non-billable
• Be able or willing to learn to use the computer to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed
• Document services provided regularly, concisely and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline
• Available for supervision meetings, trainings, and staffing meetings as scheduled by Clinical Manager
• Return phone calls promptly
• Follow all safety rules
• Actively participate in all evaluations conducted by Mississippi Behavioral Health Services.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Master of Social Work degree; or
• A Master of Arts, Science or Education degree in a mental health related field (an academic program with a curriculum content in which at least seventy percent of the required courses for the major field of study are based upon the core mental health disciplines); and
• A minimum of fifteen (15) hours of graduate level course work and/or practicum experience in applied intervention strategies/methods designed to address behavioral, emotional and mental disorders, as a part of, or in addition to the master’s degree.