Mental Health Clinical Coordinator

About the role

When you join The Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to creating better, brighter futures for kids. For over 200 years, The Home for Little Wanderers has helped build stable lives and hopeful tomorrows for vulnerable children and their families. Our 25+ community-based and residential programs serve thousands of at-risk youths from birth to age 26. Many of these children have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or a disrupted family life. As the oldest child welfare agency in America, we provide them with safe surroundings, permanent loving relationships, and a secure path toward a better, brighter future. To learn more about the incredible impact our employees have on the lives of children and families, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXedSArtYbg

Responsibilities

• Supervise and evaluate Master’s level, licensed, and Bachelor’s level clinicians as well as student interns.
• Provide individual and group supervision and provide on-going guidance and training to clinical staff.
• Coordinate in-service trainings.
• Assist in the hiring, performance management and evaluation process of clinical staff.
• Oversee the intake and discharge process and ensure all appropriate paperwork and all data entry is completed and delivered in a timely, efficient manner.
• Maintain program(s) census and ensure program(s) is following relevant agency guidelines.
• Assign cases to staff and monitor the caseload level
• Oversee the services and treatment plans of the clients and their families to ensure they are high quality and are consistent with the goals of the Program.
• Ensure services are coordinated and integrated.
• Regularly evaluate services and implement plans, with measurable outcomes, for continual improvement.
• Collaborate externally with referral sources to ensure a steady flow of eligible clients to program(s).
• Maintain the utilization review process.
• Ensure quality assurance standards are met with regard to treatment planning, record keeping and documentation.
• Monitor the treatment of all clients.
• Participate in completing all assessments, surveys and relevant feedback for Outcomes team.
• Participate in clinical conferences, IEP meetings and administrative team meetings.
• Serve on agency committees as needed such as clinical forum group.