Licensed Clinical Supervisor Gandara Center Culturally Sensitive Care

Human Service Forum; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in Massachusetts is seeking a Licensed Clinical Supervisor to lead treatment teams and ensure effective clinical supervision. This role emphasizes cultural competency and responsiveness to diverse populations. Successful candidates will possess a Master's degree and relevant licensure, with a passion for empowering families and individuals in need of mental health support.

Benefits

Equal employment opportunity

Supportive community programs

Qualifications

• Master's degree and independent license in an appropriate field.
• 2 years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and clinical supervision to treatment teams.
• Ensure timely case management and quality of electronic medical records.
• Develop programmatic policies as part of the Administrative Team.

Skills

Analytical skills

Cultural sensitivity

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Human Services

Independent license (LMHC; LICSW; LMFT; LADC I)

Job description

Licensed Clinical Supervisor

*Bilingual Candidates Encouraged to Apply
*EOE M/F/D/V

The Gándara Center provides residential, mental health, substance abuse, and preventive services for children, adults, and families across the Pioneer Valley and eastern parts of Massachusetts. We believe in our communities and value cultural diversity and strive to provide culturally competent, innovative services to a diverse community. Our mission is to promote the well-being of Hispanics, African-Americans, and other culturally diverse populations, through innovative, culturally competent behavioral health, prevention, and educational services –Empowering Lives. Restoring Families

The Licensed Clinical Supervisor will provide administrative and clinical supervision to treatment teams and other paraprofessionals. The Clinical Supervisor works within the Children Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) and Family Support and Stabilization (FSS) Services team model, establishing open communication, support, and accountability among staff and consumers. This person will answer to the Program Director, and should provide individual and group supervision to all staff while supporting these staff while developing skills to address complex issues such as co-occurring disorders and trauma. This includes teaching and providing support, ensuring that cases are assigned and closed in a timely manner, and reviewing electronic medical records for quality; hire and evaluating worker’s performance; ensuring workers productivity; conducting marketing activities, and acting as liaison to the community and Managed Care Entities. The Clinical Supervisor will be a member of the division’s Administrative Team and would contribute to developing programmatic policies and procedures.

Job Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

Ability to work with staff, colleagues, and other stakeholders.
Ability to provide goal-oriented services.
Ability to work well as a team member.
Ability to accurately diagnose and provide proper clinical formulation.
Displays sound judgement, and culturally sensitivity and humility.
Knowledge of the service delivery protocol, best practices and treatment standards as well as the ethical mandates relevant to the profession.
Awareness and sensitivity to contextual variables such as race, culture, gender, sexuality, disability, economics and lived experience, and how they impact the range of working relationships (e.g., worker-client, supervisor-worker-client, and peer-peer).
Demonstrated ability to be innovative, creative, analytical, and decisive in problem solving.
Demonstrated communications, administrative and organizational capabilities.
Familiarity with the major models of clinical supervision, in terms of philosophical assumptions and practical implications, and the ability to compare and contrast them with other models.
The capacity to articulate a personal model of supervision, drawn from existing models of supervision and from preferred styles of therapeutic practice.
The capacity to attend capably to the multiple functions and tasks of clinical supervision.
The capacity to facilitate the co-evolving relationships between the worker-client and supervisor-worker-client relationships, identifying and addressing problems that arise.
Knowledge about processes for working through ethical dilemmas in clinical supervision.
Awareness of legal issues which may arise in clinical supervision, and commitment to ensuring that supervisees are also aware of these (e.g., duty to report, limits of confidentiality, etc.).
Skill in giving and receiving feedback in supervision, both informally (e.g., in the course of supervision sessions) and formally (e.g., planned and documented reviews of the supervision process and of supervisees’ clinical skills).
The capacity to provide a high standard of documenting clinical supervision sessions.
Advanced knowledge of the major issues experienced by clients (e.g., mental illness, alcoholism, drug abuse).

Minimum Qualifications

Employee Type: Full Time
Must possess a master degree and have and independent license in an appropriate human service field.
Massachusetts independent license (i.e. LMHC; LICSW; LMFT; LADC I).
Minimum Experience required 2 years of supervisory experience preferred.
Experience in working with youth and families in a Therapeutic/Clinical setting.
Ability to do differential diagnosis and use DSM-V criteria.
Ability to work effectively with diverse populations and community agencies: school state agencies, juvenile court, etc.
Understanding/willingness to be part of a Program that supports youth and families 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.
Must have a driver’s license and availability of vehicle to support Program needs.
Bilingual [English/Spanish], Bicultural, encouraged to apply.

The Gándara Mental Health Centerprovides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.