Clinical Supervisor - Children's Residential Services

Job Summary

Responsible for clinical management and coordination of patients, supervision of staff, provision of treatment in accordance with established philosophy, objective and policies of the hospital to ensure safe, high quality and therapeutic patient care within a residential setting. The Abigail Rockwell Children’s Center is a residential treatment center consisting of 8 beds that provides mental health care for children ages 6 to 13.

• Master’s degree in Social Work required or Master’s credentials in related field
• Must be current LICSW, LMFT or LCMHC in the State of Vermont.
• Minimum of five years professional experience in the mental health field.
• Previous supervisory experience required.

• Establishes and achieves goals and objectives for the department consistent with organizational goals.
• Assures a workplace environment and culture that optimizes patient care and patient safety to reduce the likelihood of health care errors.
• Promotes and encourages a workplace environment that embraces a customer service philosophy in interactions with all patients, visitors, staff and vendors.
• Demonstrates a workplace that is committed to the Brattleboro Retreat’s mission and core values as outlined in the strategic plan.
• Fosters a teamwork approach when problem solving.
• Effectively hires, retains, motivates, praises and disciplines staff as appropriate.
• Insures appropriate staffing levels with competent, team‑oriented employees.
• Performs effective and timely annual performance evaluations of staff.
• Provides ongoing coaching, mentoring, recognition and feedback to all staff.
• Plans and implements staff development activities. Provides education to staff on performance improvement plans and patient safety initiatives.
• Ensures that staff is competent and up to date with required mandatories.
• Responsible for effectively supporting, championing and communicating strategic organizational initiatives to staff, particularly in the area of quality service and patient safety.
• Demonstrates an ability to lead cultural change for staff.
• Maintains performance improvement activities for department/unit and collaborates as necessary with hospital leadership in developing, implementing, reviewing, revising and monitoring performance improvement activities.
• Identifies, collects, and reports relevant statistical data to reflect the activities of the department and staff.
• Establishes and maintains policies, procedures and documentation standards for the department.
• Follows all organizational policies and procedures outlined in the Policies and Procedures Manual of the Brattleboro Retreat.
• Works with Director to develop and adhere to an annual operating budget for department/unit and supervises the staff and department consistent with budgetary goals.
• Attends required management meetings and in‑services.
• Completes required mandatory education, e‑learning courses assigned to improve skills and professional development courses required to maintain competency.

Day Shift / 40 Hours