STATE OF CONNECTICUT EXECUTIVE BRANCH JOBS

Supervising Clinician (40 Hour)

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Recruitment #240410-3293FP-001

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Introduction


Join our dedicated team as a Supervising Clinician and lead with excellence in mental health services! 
Elevate your career by providing expert supervision, managing critical documentation, and enhancing treatment practices. 
Apply now and make a meaningful impact!

Join the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services as one of two new Supervising Clinicians! In these roles, you will lead and directly supervise either our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team or our Community Support Program (CSP) team. Explore this opportunity to guide multidisciplinary teams and make a significant impact in mental health!

ABOUT US:
The Department of Mental Health and Addicition Services (DMHAS) is a health care agency whose mission is to promote the overall health and wellness of persons with behavioral health needs through an integrated network of holistic, comprehensive, effective, and efficient services and supports that foster dignity, respect, and self-sufficiency in those we serve.

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS: 
  • DIVISION: Southwest Connecticut Mental Health System (SWCMHS)
  • ADDRESS: Bridgeport, CT
  • POSITION DETAILS: See below
Position Number Team Work Schedule 
107309 Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Full-time, 40 hours weekly, Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
28058 Community Support Program (CSP) Full-time, 40 hours weekly, Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

WHY THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT:
  • Join an Award-Winning Team: Be part of the prestigious Forbes-ranked State of Connecticut, recognized as one of the Best Employers of 2023. Experience national acclaim for providing unparalleled job growth, competitive benefits, and flexible schedules.
  • Platinum Healthcare Excellence: Enjoy the nation's top-rated healthcare plan for state employees and their dependents. Our Platinum Healthcare Plan, ranked the best by Georgetown’s Center on Health Insurance Reform and endorsed by Ellen Andrews, Ph.D., ensures comprehensive coverage and well-being for you and your family.
  • Secure Your Future: Benefit from our robust pension plan and explore supplemental retirement offerings, ensuring a secure and comfortable future for you and your loved ones.
  • Invest in Your Education and Future: As a Public Service Loan Forgiveness employer, the State of Connecticut supports your educational journey. You may qualify for student loan forgiveness after just 10 years of dedicated service. Learn more here.
  • Time for What Matters: Embrace a healthy work-life balance with generous paid time off, including 13 paid holidays per calendar year. Prioritize your well-being and make the most of your personal time. 
  • Unlock Your Potential: Grow professionally with a range of development opportunities. The State of Connecticut is committed to nurturing your skills and helping you reach new heights in your career.
  • Cultivate Balance: We believe in a healthy work/life balance for all our employees. Join us in fostering an environment where your professional and personal lives harmonize, allowing you to thrive in both.
    DISCOVER THE OPPORTUNITY TO:
    • Provide administrative and clinical supervision, including hiring, monitoring, and supporting a team. Facilitate morning meetings and weekly treatment team meetings to ensure operational excellence and team coherence
    • Oversee risk management activities, issue clinical directives for developing risk assessments and mitigation plans, and participate directly in crisis interventions when necessary
    • Maintain high standards of care by ensuring all treatment documentation is completed accurately and adheres to strict fidelity standards, conduct medical record audits, and provide essential feedback for continual improvement
    • Provide weekly individual supervision to coordinators and team members, utilizing electronic medical records and various software tools to monitor progress and duties efficiently
    • Drive clinical excellence and community outreach by serving as a clinical liaison to contract agencies, delivering education and training to community staff, and facilitating critical treatment planning and case coordination meetings with external providers
    ABOUT OUR TEAMS:
    The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team is a multidisciplinary clinical team that delivers comprehensive services to clients who are diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness and whose needs have not been met by more traditional service delivery approaches. Individuals served by the ACT team have often experienced frequent psychiatric hospitalization and use of hospital emergency rooms, involvement with the criminal justice system, substance abuse, and lack of engagement with traditional outpatient services. By basing treatment in the community, the team can better assist the client with challenges they face. The team provides community support services interwoven with treatment and rehabilitative services and regularly scheduled team meetings with the goal of individualizing client care.

    The Community Support Program (CSP) is targeted to individuals who need the most intense level of community-based care. The program utilizes a team approach to provide intensive, rehabilitative community support, crisis intervention, individual and group skill-building, also known as recovery education.  The majority of the interventions are community-based, delivered in the individual’s home, neighborhood or community, which enables the team to become intimately familiar with the individual’s surroundings, strengths and challenges, within the context of their environment.  The desired outcome is to assist individuals toward an independent, enriched life based on their own choices and preferences.

    MORE ABOUT THE DIVISION:
    SWCMHS is responsible for the oversight and management of contracts with private not-for-profit agencies and residential providers providing mental health services in the southwest region of the state.  With locations in Bridgeport and Stamford, SWCMHS provides inpatient, outpatient and assertive community treatment (ACT) services and community support services for adults with severe behavioral health disabilities; mental health services for people who are deaf or hearing impaired and a mobile crisis intervention team. SWCMHS also provides outreach to people who are homeless and mentally ill. Special agency programs include Shelter Plus Care, a housing program for people who are homeless and who have a history of substance abuse or mental illness or who have AIDS.

    WHAT SETS US APART - STATE OF CONNECTICUT

    Selection Plan

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    To Apply:
    • In order to be considered for this job opening, you must meet the Minimum Qualifications as listed on the job opening. The minimum experience and training requirements must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
    • You must specify your qualifications on your application. You will be unable to make revisions once you submit your application for this posting to the JobAps system.
    • In order to comply with Public Act 21-69, the State of Connecticut is no longer asking for resumes during the initial application process.
    • All application materials must be received by the recruiting agency by the time specified on the job opening for the position for which you are applying. Late applications may not be submitted and will not be considered. Exceptions are rare and limited to documented events that incapacitate a candidate during the entire duration of the job posting time period. It is the candidate’s obligation and responsibility to request an exception and provide a legally recognized justification to accommodate such exception. Requests should be made to DAS.SHRM@ct.gov.
    • This position will be filled in accordance with contractual language, reemployment, SEBAC, transfer, promotion and merit employment rules.
    • In order to receive educational credits toward qualification for this job posting, the institution must be accredited.  If the institution of higher learning is located outside of the U.S., you are responsible for providing documentation from a recognized USA accrediting service which specializes in determining foreign education equivalencies to the recruiter listed on this job posting. 
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    • Note: At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation which support their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a cover letter, resume, transcripts, diplomas, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency.
    • The immediate vacancy is listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class.
    • Interviews will be limited to candidates whose experience and training most closely meet the requirements of the position.
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    • For current state employees, salary calculations are not necessarily comparable from one of the three branches of state government (i.e., Executive, Legislative, Judicial) to the other.
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    PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)

    In a state agency this class is accountable for providing supervision and direction of a clinical unit.

    EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

    • Provide administrative and clinical supervision, hiring, monitoring, support, scheduling, evaluation, orientation, and education/training. 
    • Operationally the positions facilitate daily Team morning meetings and rotates attendance at weekly Treatment Team meetings.
    • Contributes/oversees Risk Management meetings and provides clinical directives to staff on the development of Risk Assessments and mitigation plans. 
    • May directly participate in crisis intervention activities including Emergency Certificates completion when indicated. 
    • Ensures all treatment documentation is completed accurately and on time and meets strict fidelity standards.
    • Conducts Medical Record (HIM) chart audits and provided feedback to teams to obtain corrections.
    • Provides weekly individual supervision to Team coordinators and other assigned staff.
    • Utilizes the agency electronic medical record, databases, Microsoft Office software and proprietary software to adequately monitor individual client progress and staff completion of duties.
    • Participates in utilization Management reviews. 
    • Attends and participates in scheduled contract agency meetings and serves as a clinical liaison to contract agencies as needed. 
    • Provides education and training to community contract agency staff as requested. 
    • Provides clinical consultation to clinical teams and community based Private Not for Profit providers. 
    • Facilitates Treatment Planning meetings and case coordination meetings with outside providers. 
    • Attends agency and DMHAS statewide case conferences. 
    • Reviews performance and evaluates staff direct service markers. 
    • Oversees staff documentation completion, confirms documentation is accurate, in compliance with agency regulatory standards and meet reimbursement requirements.
    • Monitors billing and ensures clinician coding is completed accurately.
    • May provide oversight, and/or direct clinical liaison interface to local hospitals, and other private or state facilities. 
    • Assures that services and staff operate within DMHAS, and SWCMHS policies and procedures and that service provision meet Joint Commission/CMS/DPH standards
    • Promotes cultural and gender diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace, sensitivity to client's needs, and assures clients rights. 
    • Attend all assigned and required meeting. 
    • Participates in performance improvement activities. 
    • Oversees units Clinical Program Development that includes evaluating the treatment and recovery needs of the clients served and ensures that the individual and group interventions provided meet client recovery and clinical needs.
    • Plays a leadership role within the agency by participating in assigned Site-Wide and Agency-Wide committees. 
    • Has overall HR/Payroll responsibility for unit staff including time and attendance; staff development; performance improvement and progressive discipline. 
    • Complies with ethical standards and DMHAS work rules. 
    • Performs safe work practices and maintains client and program safety.
    • Utilizes an electronic health record, computer technology and data to perform job functions and inform management and supervisory practices.
    • Observes all confidentiality and client’s rights regulations. 
    • Provides CPR and first aid as necessary
    • Performs other related duties.

    KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

    • Considerable knowledge of
      • relevant agency policies and procedures; 
      • mental health treatment, principles and values of community based care; 
      • psychiatric rehabilitation principles; 
      • entitlement and benefit programs; 
      • variety of intervention and support strategies; 
    • Knowledge of
      • relevant state and federal laws, statutes and regulations; 
      • societal, cultural and gender issues and impact on mental illness; 
      • psychotropic medications; 
      • impact of housing and homelessness on the mentally ill; 
    • Considerable
      • interpersonal skills; 
      • oral and written communications skills; 
      • facilitation, collaboration and conflict resolution skills; 
    • Ability to
      • identify and articulate philosophical foundations for specific program models or service approaches; 
      • delegate authority; 
      • plan and organize effectively; 
      • integrate community resources into service planning; 
      • develop and maintain effective relationships with community representatives and staff; 
    • Supervisory ability.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE

    Seven (7) years of professional health care experience in a psychiatric setting.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SPECIAL EXPERIENCE

    Two (2) years of the General Experience must have been at a lead level responsible for coordinating the work of a unit or team of professionals in a psychiatric setting.

    NOTE: For state employees this experience is interpreted at the level of an Advanced Clinical Social Worker for social work discipline, Head Nurse for the nursing discipline, an Advanced Professional Counselor and an Advanced Marital and Family Therapist.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED

    • College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor's degree.
    • A Master's Degree in a health care field related to one of the disciplines in the Special Experience may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Experience coordinating care for complex clients within a community system of providers/integrated services
    • Experience providing clinical and administrative supervision and overseeing risk management in a fast-paced, high-energy work environment
    • Experience supervising a multi-disciplinary team with professional and paraprofessional staff, along with aiding in staff development 
    • Knowledge, skills, abilities, and sensitivities in an environment which embraces a global cultural environment of diversity
    • Experience collaborating with community providers, local hospitals, Police Departments, and outpatient clinical teams
    • Ability to transport clients

    SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

    • Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a current license as a Clinical Social Worker, a licensed Marital and Family Therapist, a licensed Professional Counselor, or as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Connecticut. The license required for direct supervision of clinical oversight will be dictated by the functions of the assigned unit or program.
    • Incumbents in this class may be required to possess certification as a clinical supervisor by the Connecticut Certification Board.
    • Incumbents in this class may be required to be bilingual or fluent in American Sign Language.
    • Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.

    WORKING CONDITIONS

    Incumbents in this class may be required to lift and restrain clients, may have significant exposure to communicable and/or infectious diseases and risk of injury and may be exposed to strongly disagreeable conditions.

    Conclusion

    AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

    The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    As defined by Sec. 5-196 of the Connecticut General Statutes, a job class is a position or group of positions that share general characteristics and are categorized under a single title for administrative purposes.  As such, a job class is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task and/or responsibility.




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