Clinical Supervisor

Clinical Supervisor

The Clinical Supervisor oversees clinical operations and service delivery within an OASAS Part 820 treatment program, ensuring high standards of care through the implementation of evidence-based practices. This role conducts regular case reviews, provides mentorship, facilitates staff training, and supports ongoing professional development for clinical staff. The Clinical Supervisor plays a key role in program development and evaluation to enhance service delivery and client outcomes, and collaborates closely with leadership to meet strategic goals.

In addition, the Clinical Supervisor assists the Program Director in managing day-to-day site operations and ensuring that program objectives are clearly defined and program goals are consistently achieved.

Responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day clinical operations of the treatment program, ensuring high standards of clinical care by implementing and reinforcing evidence-based practices across all aspects of service delivery, conducting regular case reviews to monitor client progress, supporting clinical decision-making, and promoting quality outcomes.

The Clinical Supervisor schedules, provides, and documents direct individual and group clinical supervision for clinic staff, offers ongoing mentorship to clinical staff, provides relevant clinical trainings to staff, trains new staff on the use of the electronic health record, and supervises staff on effective clinical documentation.

The Clinical Supervisor assists the Program Director in interviewing, hiring, training, appraising, evaluating, and, when necessary, disciplining or terminating subordinate staff. They support program development and evaluation efforts, collaborate with leadership to align clinical operations with strategic goals, and maintain strong relationship management with staff and stakeholders.

Essential skills include a Master of Social Work (MSW) or equivalent clinical degree, current NYS LCSW, LMSW, LMHC, or equivalent clinical license, CASAC Master or Advanced Counselor credential, minimum of 2 years supervisory and administrative experience in a clinical setting, proven experience in management within substance use disorder recovery or a closely related field, strong leadership skills, strong organizational skills, adeptness at working in an electronic health record system, completion of the 30-hour Clinical Supervision Foundations training, effective verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and leadership, and administrative skills to support clinical operations and program management.

Additional skills and qualifications include experience providing individual and group clinical supervision to a diverse team of clinicians, experience delivering staff trainings in integrated treatment, motivational interviewing, and collaborative documentation, experience with program development and evaluation in behavioral health or SUD treatment settings, ability to interpret and apply best practices in clinical supervision based on staff competencies and needs, skill in interviewing, hiring, performance appraisal, and staff development, ability to effectively address performance issues and participate in disciplinary processes when necessary, strong relationship management skills to foster a positive, collaborative work culture, and high level of professionalism, integrity, and accountability in clinical and administrative decision-making.

This is an onsite position in a clinical treatment setting operating during typical day shift hours. Standard schedules run Monday through Friday, generally from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The environment is team-oriented and…