This position is responsible for providing clinical supervision to the SBIS Clinical Coordinators and directing the clinical work of the program including treatment planning, monitoring licensure requirements, file management, and auditing. The Clinical Supervisor may directly supervise clinical staff to licensure, supervise clinical interns, and/or provide direct clinical work for the program at an assigned district(s).
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following and may be done in partnership with the Director, Assistant Director and SBIS leadership team:
Quality of Care and Service:
- Provides direct individual, group, or family counseling, including intake assessments, treatment planning, and follow up care to children, youth, and family clients as a part of the SBIS program.
- Nurtures a culture that ensures the SBIS staff deliver direct services that demonstrate continuous quality improvement and progress towards meeting the highest practice standards for quality.
- Ensures that the program and staff take all measures necessary to ensure the safety of clients.
- Supports client choice in care, engagement and help-seeking skills.
- Promotes and teaches resiliency-building skills to empower staff and clients.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of trauma on development, learning, health and social-emotional well-being.
- Demonstrates an understanding of concepts related to secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue and the impact of these on quality of care.
- Ensures that the policies and practices of the SBIS program are designed to reduce re-traumatization.
- Maintains working knowledge of trauma sensitive school models to guide program design and implementation.
Human Resources Management:
- Provides leadership to ensure that the program attracts, develops, motivates, and retains a highly qualified workforce.
- Demonstrates, models, and provides coaching to clinical coordinators on hiring practices that are consistent, inclusive, transparent, trauma-informed and in alignment with the organization’s Human Resource’s expectations.
- Demonstrates, models, and provides coaching to clinical coordinators on employee evaluation practices that are consistent, inclusive, transparent, trauma-informed, and in alignment with the organization’s Human Resource’s expectations.
- Selects and develops a cohesive team to successfully implement program and organization objectives.
- Ensures a work environment that promotes trustworthiness and transparency.
- Works collaboratively to help others, including those outside of the program.
- Utilizes individual and peer clinical supervision for both self and supervisory staff to support personal growth, professional growth, reflection, self-care, and clinical skills.
- Demonstrates a positive, willing and flexible attitude.
- Follows A.C.T. (Acknowledges, Corrects, Thanks) when faced with a complaint or service recovery opportunity.
- Celebrates success.
Leadership and Governance:
- Demonstrates and articulates the programmatic and organizational vision and mission.
- Works with the SBIS Leadership Team to establish and maintain the highest ethical standards for the organization.
- Respect the worth of each person by acting with kindness, empathy and cultural sensitivity.
- Recognizes and values diversity and the contribution of employees at all levels of the agency.
- Act with integrity in relationships with clients, colleagues and community.
- Leads adherence to Synergy policies and procedures.
- Participates in Performance and Quality Improvement activities.
Financial and Grant Management:
- Provides accurate and complete service reports.
- Demonstrates, coaches, and trains staff on accurate documentation, data entry and utilization
- Fosters the integration of programmatic evaluation and data into programmatic planning for advanced learning and growth of the program.
- Demonstrates an evaluative approach to developing outcome measures.
Operational Management:
- Identifies obstacles and problems and takes corrective action to achieve plans and goals.
- Ensures that physical environments utilized by staff and clients are safe, and conducive for client care.
Strategic Planning:
- Works with the Director and Assistant Director to translate vision and mission into realistic strategic goals and objectives.
- Works program leadership to develop and communicate the implementation of the program’s strategic plans.
- Ensures that the planning process is effective and that the program’s strategic direction is clear to all staff.
Performance Management:
- Establishes and maintains a system for managing and monitoring performance.
- Ensures that meaningful and challenging goals for performance improvement are established.
- Holds supervisees accountable for achieving performance standards and goals.
- Proactively seeks opportunities for continued growth & development. Accepts coaching as part of a supportive culture.
- Monitors and evaluates program productivity and client outcomes.
Community Relations and Communications:
- May represent and promote the interests and the image of the program and organization to governmental entities, local community groups, accrediting bodies and to the public at large as needed.
- Maintain connection and relationship with partner agencies, community stakeholders, and school district partners to support collaboration and effective implementation of trauma sensitive schools.
- May serve on community committees and/or boards to maintain collaborative relationships.
Principles and Values
Team Work: Balances team and individual responsibilities; exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views; gives and welcomes feedback; contributes to building a positive team spirit; puts success of the Synergy team above own interests; able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.
Strategic Thinking: Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organizations’ strengths and weaknesses; identifies external threats and opportunities; adapts strategy to changing conditions.
Diversity and Inclusion: Commits to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion.
Willing to Grow: Accepts accountability for mistakes and uses the mistakes as an opportunity to learn about self and to change future behaviors.
Safety and Security: Observes safety and security procedures; determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; remedies potentially unsafe conditions.
Attendance: Regular attendance is a requirement of this position
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Directly supervises employees in SBIS. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems, in collaboration with district managers and/or other SBIS leadership
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Master’s degree and clinical license in counseling, social work, or related clinical field with 2 or more years’ experience in clinical supervision and adherence to necessary licensing board requirements for clinical licensing supervisory status.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
The employee in this position must have a valid Drivers license
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES
The employee must have the ability to type and perform Data Entry/10 key. Must have the ability to use computer software, including Windows, EXCEL, Word for Windows, PowerPoint, and Access.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
COMMENTS
The employee in this position must be comfortable addressing large groups and must be comfortable interacting with youth of all ages.
Master’s degree and clinical license in counseling, social work, or related clinical field with 2 or more years’ experience in clinical supervision and adherence to necessary licensing board requirements for clinical licensing supervisory status.
Must be at least 21 years of age, consent to a Background Check and Children’s Division (Central Registry/Child Abuse) screening, physical, drug screen and have a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Synergy Services is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We feel our staff, interns and volunteers are among our most valuable assets. The collective sum of the individual difference, life experience, knowledge, self-expression and unique capabilities that our staff, interns and volunteers bring to their work at Synergy represents a large part of not only our agency culture but our reputation as well.
We embrace and encourage our staff’s, intern’s and volunteers’ differences in age, race/ethnicity, religious creed, ancestry, color, sex, disability, national origin, marital status, political belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic testing and screening information, covered veterans status or any other characteristic that makes us unique.
Non-Discrimination:
Synergy Services is an EEO employer. We firmly support the principle and philosophy of equal employment for all individuals, regardless of age, race/ethnicity, religious creed, ancestry, color, sex, disability (including pregnancy), national origin, marital status, political belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic testing and screening information, covered veteran status or any other protected category pursuant to applicable federal, state or local laws.
Benefits:
All full-time positions are eligible for generous benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation and holidays, sick days and personal holidays and a 401K Plan with Employer Match. Some regular part-time positions are eligible for partial benefits. Synergy Services is an equal opportunity employer who values and embraces diversity.
Location: 2001 NE Parvin Rd, Kansas City, MO 64116
Job Type: Full-time
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