Supervisor Behavioral Health Therapy - McKeesport OP

UPMC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Behavioral Health is seeking a Behavioral Health Therapy Supervisor to oversee therapists at their McKeesport outpatient clinic, providing clinical and administrative supervision within outpatient and partial hospitalization programs. The role includes treatment planning, documentation, and collaboration with the care team to ensure high-quality services.

The supervisor will participate in recruitment and staff development, lead treatment team meetings, and act in senior capacity as

Qualifications

• Direct clinical and administrative supervision to behavioral health therapists.
• Experience coordinating outpatient/partial hospitalization services.
• Ability to lead treatment teams and supervise staff.
• Involvement in recruitment, training and performance processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and supervise assessments, treatment planning and documentation.
• Coordinate with clinical team to determine service level and referrals as needed.
• Maintain daily records of clinical productivity and participate in QA efforts.
• Direct daily work of therapists and conduct annual performance reviews.
• Support recruitment, admissions flow, and treatment team meetings as instructed.
• Alert management to clinical and staff issues and escalate as needed.
• Lead program in the director's absence to ensure care continuity and safety.

Skills

Supervision

Leadership

Team collaboration

Clinical documentation

Treatment planning

Assessment

Quality improvement

Staff training

Job description

Western Behavioral Health is in search of a Behavioral Health Therapy Supervisor to support their McKeesport mental health outpatient clinic. This clinic serves children and adults across the lifespan by providing individual and group therapy, as well as medication management services.

The purpose of this job is to provide direct clinical and administrative supervision to behavioral health therapists. As appropriate, provide clinical outpatient treatment designed to service patients with a mental health diagnosis who meet dimensions for outpatient and/or partial hospitalization treatment criteria. Acts as a senior member of the therapy team.

This position will work Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm with occasional evenings on Wednesdays. This position allows for hybrid availability.

Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight and as appropriate, conduct/document assessments, create treatment plans, assess changing needs of patients per guidelines for outpatient and/or partial hospitalization programs, participate in treatment team meetings, provide individual and group therapy, complete clinical documentation on the same day of service delivery, provide clinical information to patient access representative personnel and insurance providers to ensure authorization for services, reviews cases and/or groups periodically, as well as serious clinical patient condition changes with Director and as indicated.
• Assess need for additional services with the clinical team to determine appropriateness of recommendations. Refers patients to other levels of care, community based self-help programs for recovery or other community social or human services as needed.
• Maintain daily records of clinical productivity in the program as instructed.
• Participate in the quality assurance and performance improvement activities of the program.
• Direct and assign daily work of all behavioral health therapists, performing annual performance reviews and enforcing unit and personnel policies and procedures.
• Provide operational support by participating in the recruitment process for new employees, coordinating the flow of new admissions, coordinating regular treatment team meetings and supervising the daily clinical activities of the program as instructed. This may include but not be limited to the oversight of clinician caseload management, group census, treatment plan quality, risk master reports, and the batch error process.
• Alert management of issues by meeting regularly with director to review cases, reviewing clinical problems with director, and reviewing any staff problems with director.
• On occasion, assumes leadership of the program in the absence of the Director to ensure the care of the patients, the continuity of service delivery and the safety of the patients, staff and community, as instructed.
• Collaborate with leadership to complete annual training needs assessment per program guidelines.
• Takes a lead role in providing staff in-service training to the treatment team, as directed. Involved in system wide training and education initiatives outside of the scope of normal clinical responsibilities.
• Under the guidance of the Director, Clinical Administrator or designee, provides direct clinical and administrative supervision to individual behavioral health therapists and therapy teams to ensure the care of the patients, the continuity of service delivery and the safety of the patients, staff and community, as instructed. Incorporates evidence based treatment into the clinical supervisory process related to, teaching, practicing, etc.