Behavioral Mental Health Weekend Supervisor

Job Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competencies in comprehensive psychiatric assessments and discharge planning for patients presenting in a behavioral and mental health crisis in the Emergency Department or other practice settings.
• Maintains understanding of external behavioral and mental health resources and means of appropriately accessing and connecting families with resources.
• Fosters professional development of others via constructive performance appraisals and professional development plans.
• Fosters collegial relationships between team members, other departments, and medical staff members.
• Establishes departmental goals and leads unit to achieve them.
• Manages staffing effectiveness.
• Rounds proactively to identify and react to escalating concerns of potential or actual conflict, seeking resolution, and incorporating service recovery.
• Develops and maintains relationships with leadership in other departments to ensure appropriate resources are accessible for clinicians.
• Executes implementation plans for system and unit changes.
• Engages departmental leaders to achieve unit goals and projects.
• Focuses time and attention on key retention activities.
• Coaches staff to improve performance.
• Manages daily operations of the BMHS for the system.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in postgraduate social work and/or counseling.
• Three years of experience in a pediatric medical setting.
• Two years of leadership experience in a clinical setting.
• Two years of leadership experience in a mental and behavioral health care setting.
• Master’s degree in social work or counseling from an accredited graduate school.
• Georgia Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and/or Georgia Licensed Practicing Counselor (LPC).

Skills

• Excellent communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to resolve conflict and problem solve among multi-disciplinary team members.
• Skills in staff development and time management.
• Coordination, delegation, and team collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of age-appropriate assessment, treatment, and practice.
• Ability to remain calm and manage verbal/physical responses in stressful situations.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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