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Posted: 08-Sep-23
Location: Denver, Colorado
Salary: Open
Internal Number: R3107
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Department
ACS-CHS Grants FundedJob SummaryProvides administrative, educational, and supportive reflective supervision to employees on the School Based Health Center Mental Health team. Establishes a learning alliance with staff to increase knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes. Participates in grant writing and management, policy planning, and service implementation. Plans, schedules, coordinates and assigns work to assure appropriate service provision. Strives to create a positive customer experience by committing to higher standards.Provides culturally competent individual, family and group therapy; care plan development, case management, consultation, crisis intervention and referral work within Colorado OBH Standards. Works collaboratively with Denver Public School employees on behalf of students being served in school based health center settings. Subscribes to an evidence-based practice framework to manage and facilitate clinical processes and progress for patients. Effectively manages a clinical case load and clinical documentation. Goals of clinical practice are to assist students and their families in their ability to manage effectively their psychiatric and or substance use disorders to function better within the community. Experienced in trauma-informed care
Essential Functions:
- Provides administrative support and assists in developing, implementing and interpreting policies, procedures, and programs. (20%)
- Routinely meets with supervisors for review of active cases, problem solving, job performance, ongoing communication and consultation. Identifies areas for growth and development. (10%)
- Communicates with the SBHC management team regarding staff, service activities and problems needing departmental attention. (10%)
- Identifies new and changing resources and programs in the community in order to provide services to patients, negotiates referral and application procedures for these services, and facilitates exchange of information between community agencies and staff. (10%)
- Researches, writes, and administers grant funded projects. (10%)
- Participates or provides leadership of department, agency and community meetings or task groups. (10%)
- Plans, schedules, coordinates and assigns work to assure service provision, including coverage. (10%)
- Monitors caseloads and recommend adjustments, as needed. Assures department standards for productivity are met. (10%)
- Assures that new or reassigned employees are oriented to the job responsibilities through completion of orientation checklist and documented performance plan, per established guidelines.* Promotes positive interpersonal (customer) relationships with fellow employees, physicians, patients and visitors. Treats these individuals with courtesy, dignity, empathy and respect; consistently displays courteous and respectful verbal and non-verbal communications. * Adheres to, complies with and demonstrates support for the mission and values of Denver Health. Supports and adheres to the Denver Health Dozen.* Sets clear expectations for staff by developing job specific customer service expectations and behaviors for each position supervised; clearly communicates expectations to each employee and establishes the expectations as job requirements and performance appraisal components; delegates responsibility/authority whenever possible.* Conducts all performance evaluations on time, working with each employee at least annually to set specific behavioral goals.* Identifies training and staff development needs of employees and ensures appropriate training provided.* Initiates formal/informal activities with employees to develop departmental cohesion and collegiality.* Recognizes positive behavior and contributions to the organization using praise, appreciation and rewards.* Actively identifies problems and opportunities for improvement; identifies appropriate solution and involves others in the implementation process.* Has regular and predictable attendance. (10%)
- For Patient Care Positions:* Utilizes methods, techniques and approaches to the delivery of care that are consistent with the age group of the patient and in conformance with the specific care plan developed for each patient. * Demonstrates knowledge and applicability of the principles of growth and development over the life span, as well as demonstrating the ability to assess data reflecting the patient's status and interpreting appropriate information relative to the age specific needs of the patient(s) to whom care/services is being delivered/provided. * At a minimum, the success with which employees produce the results expected utilizing the above methods, techniques and approaches with specific patient age groups, shall be assessed via observation and/or competency review and/or patient outcome assessment. * Complies with rules and laws effecting practice. (0%)
Education:
- Master's Degree Required
Work Experience:
- 1-3 years of post-master's direct clinical social work experience in anorganized clinical setting Required
Licenses:
- LCSW-Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW State Licensing Board Required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of reflective supervision tactics and ongoing participation in the professional development of supervision.
- Skilled in identifying problems/opportunities to improve services.
- Familiar with the community resources available to the supervisee for appropriate referrals of patients.
- Ability to encourage and enhance work performance though feedback and available resources.
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to tolerate ambiguity.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Advanced knowledge of early childhood mental health, including typical child development and parallel process.
- Ability to provide individual, child and family psychotherapy.
- Knowledge of social emotional theories in education such as Pyramid and Conscious Discipline.
- Experience with trauma-informed care and ability to apply to a large system/community.
- Familiarity with systems interventions and assessment.
- Knowledge of crisis intervention and ability to respond to trauma in both children and adults.
- Knowledge of patient populations’ cultural, religious, ethnic, and social systems in interactions, care planning, and education.
- Familiarity with community resources available to children and families.
- Ability to maintain firm boundaries and confidentiality - to manage professional relationship including termination.
- Ability to respond to feedback and incorporate into practice.
- Comfort in providing group training and working collaboratively with others.
- Proficient in Microsoft office suite to include Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Epic experience, preferred.
Shift
Days (United States of America)Work Type
RegularSalary
$80,325.00 - $86,625.00 / yrBenefits
Competitive pay
Outstanding benefits
Education opportunities
Shared leadership and advancement opportunity
State-of-the-art facilities
Immediate retirement plan matching
Professional clinical advancement program
Participation in evidence-based projects
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer
National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer
Our Values
Respect
Belonging
Accountability
Transparency
All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For read more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion
