Emergency Mental Health Clinical Supervisor

County of Los Angeles; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

County of Los Angeles is seeking qualified professionals to fill emergency Mental Health Clinical Supervisor vacancies related to homelessness response. The role involves supervising workers, guiding clinical directions, and ensuring compliance with state and federal mandates during an initial period up to 90 days with potential for permanent appointment.

The position requires licensure in social work or marriage/family therapy and involves planning, staff development, and handling complex or

Qualifications

• Option I: Two years of post-licensure social work experience in a recognized social services or mental health care setting involving problems of mental or emotional adjustment and the use of psychiatric consultation.
• Option II: Two years of post-licensure marriage and family therapy experience in a recognized social services or mental health care setting involving problems of mental or emotional adjustment and the use of techniques of family systems therapy.

Responsibilities

• Trains, instructs, and evaluates workers and makes work assignments.
• Effectively communicates program, administrative, and clinical direction to subordinate staff.
• Discusses problem cases with workers and makes suggestions and recommendations.
• Reviews case records for completeness, consistency, and quality of mental health services provided including application of proper techniques; ensures compliance with state and federal mandates.
• Consults with individual workers to promote staff development and to suggest solutions to problem cases.
• Studies and makes suggestions and recommendations on special, complicated, or problem cases.
• Confers with program manager concerning human resources and work problems.
• Assists in planning, developing, and implementing mandatory and discretionary mental health programs in accordance with applicable laws, ordinances, and regulations by determining type and level of services to be provided; measures of quality-assurance to be employed; and formulating and carrying out policies and procedures.
• Keeps informed of new developments in the field of psychiatric social work or marriage and family therapy.
• Identifies staff training and development requirements and provides training and guidance to administrative and clinical staff to ensure mental health services delivery effectiveness.
• Carries a caseload that includes the more complicated or emergency casework assignments as required.
• Reviews and/or approves treatment authorization requests from hospitals, contracted network and/or legal entity community-based providers/programs and recommend approval or denial of requests per specified state and Department of Mental Health contract compliance requirements, as needed.

Job description

County of Los Angeles is seeking qualified professionals to fill emergency Mental Health Clinical Supervisor vacancies related to homelessness response. The role involves supervising workers, guiding clinical directions, and ensuring compliance with state and federal mandates during an initial period up to 90 days with potential for permanent appointment.

The position requires licensure in social work or marriage/family therapy and involves planning, staff development, and handling complex or