UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe harbor serves Erie County residents with a variety of mental health and substance use concerns. The Supervisor of Behavioral Health Therapy will lead a small team working with individuals experiencing the initial onset of psychosis symptoms with an evidenced based model of team-based treatment. In this role you will provide therapy to clients and families and lead clinical treatment groups. Will be responsible for supervising our Peer Services team. Follow the link below to read more about this program!
Early Onset Recovery Program | Services | UPMC Safe Harbor
The ideal hire for this position must be licensed (LPC, LCSW, LMFT) and have prior behavioral health and supervision experience. Office is located 1330 West 26th Street in Erie, PA. Parking is provided at no cost, on site. The dress code is business casual. The schedule is Monday through Friday, daylight with the potential for flexibility and occasional work from home opportunities.
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Responsibilities:
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. 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. Collaborate with leadership to complete annual training needs assessment per program guidelines. Alert management of issues by meeting regularly with director to review cases, reviewing clinical problems with director, and reviewing any staff problems with director. Direct and assign daily work of all behavioral health therapists, performing annual performance reviews and enforcing unit and personnel policies and procedures. 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. Maintain daily records of clinical productivity in the program as instructed. 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. Participate in the quality assurance and performance improvement activities of the program. 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.