TRADITIONAL HEALER SUPERVISOR

Essential Duties, Functions And Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to staff through effective objective setting, delegation, and communication and conducts staff meetings as required.
• Safeguards personnel by ensuring they are well-trained, effective, and optimally utilized.
• Instructs personnel regarding policy, procedure, and program changes.
• Counsels and coaches staff regarding performance issues and implements corrective actions as necessary.
• Maintains appropriate staffing levels for traditional and cultural services provided to patients and communities.
• Reviews staff documentation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and follows up on referrals, scheduled appointments, and aftercare.
• Assists and supports department personnel as needed or according to the schedule.
• Collaborates with the Behavioral Health Leadership team to develop policies ensuring appropriate standards of practice and compliance with Hospital and federal standards.
• Approves and disapproves leave requests and completes timesheets for payroll processing.
• Manages and oversees the FY budget process and allocation of funding for the TCS program in collaboration with the Directors of the ACU, and Outpatient Services and Chief of Behavioral Health.
• Supports traditional healing/counseling services in personal care, native diagnostic procedures, and ritual treatment procedures to enhance holistic care.
• Plans, manages, and supports the FDIHB traditional counseling/healing service in alignment with departmental goals to achieve defined objectives.
• Acts as a reference for traditional counseling/healing service to staff and patients and their families in clinical and community settings.
• Supervises and monitors schedules and provides appropriate follow-up care of patients.
• Supports and coordinates training on native medicine and culture for FDIHB staff and assists with staff development activities including TCS staff personal.
• Documents all patient care and services provided in the medical record per FDIHB and departmental policy.
• Adminstratively collaborates with local resources to assist with the development of resources for further care if needed.

Cultural Resource Duties

• Provide consultation services to FDIHB staff as needed on native healing practices and traditional beliefs.
• Perform ceremonies or blessings for FDIHB departments, including before and after mock codes, new facility dedications, annual clinical unit blessing, and other activities as needed.

Program Support Duties

• Manage spiritual therapeutic sweat services and maintain the traditional Hogan and sweat lodge facilities within FDIHB.
• Participate on the Traditional Navajo Medicine Committee and other FDIHB committees as assigned.
• Participate in departmental Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) management activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Mandatory Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: Two (2) years direct work experience as a traditional healer/counselor. One (1) year work experience in a supervisory capacity.
• Education: High School Diploma.
• Certification: Certified within the Diné Hataalii Association (DHA) or within the Azee' Bee Nahaghá of Diné Nation (ABNDN).