Psychiatric Supervisor

About the role

The Mental Health Center (MHC) is seeking a psychiatrist with leadership experience to serve as the Psychiatric Supervisor to join their Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing assessment and treatment including prescribing medication to clients with mental illness, especially those with serious and persistent mental illness and persons with co-occurring substance use disorders (SUD).
• Provide psychiatric consultation/care coordination to other providers as needed.
• Participate in quality improvement efforts aimed at equity and disparity reduction.
• Serve as a supervisor and support for psychiatric nurse practitioners (NP) and psychiatrists (MD) by establishing performance expectations, overseeing service delivery, evaluating team and individual results, and providing feedback and coaching.
• Identify, lead, and manage clinic-wide initiatives related to clinical quality and best practices by developing goals and objectives, establishing work plans and timelines, monitoring progress, and evaluating results.
• Facilitate continuous process improvement of systems and programs by determining needs and improvements.
• Develop plans, policies, and procedures and evaluate outcomes for programs and services.
• Manage provider transfer requests by supporting client needs while prioritizing clinical quality and urgent lab requests in collaboration with nursing supervisor.
• Collaborate across areas and programs with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality medical and behavioral health care, including treatment for SUD within the CCBHC model, and provide guidance to support the integration and coordination of services.
• Develop organizational protocols including a CQI plan that applies to the quality of the medical components of care including integrating with primary care.
• Provide leadership to further department-based strategies that align with county goals, mission and core values for diversity, equity & inclusion.

Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited school of medicine with an M.D. degree; a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Completion of an approved internship and formal residency.
• Possession of a valid license to practice medicine issued by the State of Minnesota and eligibility for board certification in psychiatry.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Experience working in a psychiatric/mental health setting within the last five years.
• Supporting and developing Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) services.
• Establishing protocols aligned with screening recommendations for HIV, viral hepatitis, CCBHC-required primary care screenings, and other clinically indicated health indicators across age groups.
• Working with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Skills

• Fluency in another language in addition to English, especially Hmong, Somali, and Spanish, is encouraged.
• Bilingual candidates who pass a language assessment may qualify for additional bilingual pay and duties.

About the Department

Human Services delivers a variety of services to individuals or families that assist with basic needs or encourage client change around specific objectives. We work with individuals as well as systems and communities in order to develop policy and advocate for the people we serve. The people we serve and our communities are connected. By helping one, we help the other.

About the Mental Health Center

The Mental Health Center is licensed by the state of Minnesota and is staffed by psychiatrists, advanced practice registered nurses, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, clinical social workers, and other health care professionals. The MHC’s team of support and provider professionals provides comprehensive outpatient behavioral health services to adults with serious mental illness as well as those with co-occurring substance use disorders. Additionally, the clinic services children, youth, and families, many of whom are involved with Child Protection or Juvenile Justice. With state CCBHC certification, we’ve advanced our goals of service excellence and the provision of personalized, coordinated, equitable care for the people we serve.

About Hennepin County

Hennepin is the largest county government organization in Minnesota. Our employees work every day to improve the health, safety and quality of life for our residents and communities. All of our jobs align with our mission to serve residents through transformative services that reduce disparities, eliminate inequities, and create opportunity for all and our vision of a community where all people are healthy, all people are valued, and all people thrive. Our employees receive a combination of competitive benefits and positive workplace culture not found at other organizations. This includes meaningful work that impacts our community, competitive pay, work-life balance, a variety of benefits and opportunities to grow. Learn more at The Bridge (login as Guest).