Social Work Supervisor; MST

Position Summary

Salary: $72,000 - $78,000/yr

The Social Work Supervisor serves the combined roles of an Administrative Supervisor and Model supervisor. As an administrative supervisor, the Supervisor will provide supervision for approximately three Therapists/Case planners and a BA level crisis worker to ensure best practices and excellent record keeping as required by ACS Child Welfare Preventive Standards. In this capacity, the supervisor also has to ensure compliance with program/agency policies and procedures.

The Supervisor also functions in the role of “model supervisor” of the program. In this capacity, supervision is provided to therapists consistent with the model to ensure fidelity and adherence to the model. The MST-CAN supervisor will report to the Director of MST-CAN.

• Understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Provide accountability, child welfare and administrative supervision for up to three (3) Therapists/Case planners and a Crisis Case Worker.
• Provide Accountability Oversight to ensure that therapists comply with ACS accountability mandates, including:
  • Screen and assign all new referrals within 5 days.
  • Timely registering of cases in PROMIS and Connections.
  • Timely completion, review and approval of FASPs, Plan Amendments and Progress notes.
  • Timely approval of case closings.
  • Ensure therapists enter contacts in the PROMIS and connections system in a timely manner.
  • Ensure that all families and children are seen at least every month.
  • Work with the Director to ensure that utilization meets the performance-based funding requirement of at or above 90%.
• Provide Child Welfare Supervision to Therapists in order to ensure that all children are safe and free of immediate or impending danger or serious harm.
  • Provide weekly supervision to all therapists consistent with ACS Supervisory Standards.
  • Discuss every case weekly and review all case records at least 1 time per month consistent with ACS Supervisory Standards.
  • Document case discussions and case record reviews monthly in Supervisory Reviews for each case.
  • Ensure that all required assessments are conducted in the first month of case and 3 months thereafter.
  • Collaborate with all departments of ACS including FAP, DCP, OPTA, OPPP, or APA, etc., as needed to ensure the safety needs of children are being addressed.
  • Ensure compliance with all other ACS Preventive Standards, policies and procedures related to CSEC, Safe Sleep, Domestic Violence, etc.
  • Participate in all FTC’s as prescribed by ACS.
• Provide Administrative Oversight to ensure Therapists comply with all agency policies and procedures, including:
  • Ensure that staff comply with agency conditions of employment related to attendance, hours of work, and use of sick, personal, vacation time, etc.
  • Ensure that all staff meet performance standards and comply with agency standards of behavior and code of conduct.
  • Complete performance evaluations and address performance issues in a timely and progressive manner.
  • Ensure that staff receives trainings as required by agency, ACS and program.
• Conduct weekly group supervision for MST-CAN team to assure adherence to MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
  • Conduct individual supervision as needed to target clinician competency needs and to remove individual barriers to effective implementation of MST-CAN treatment.
  • Assure appropriate documentation of clinical effort to allow for peer and supervisory input, and to meet all reporting and communication needs of funding and referral sources.
  • Provide supportive and corrective feedback to clinicians to promote client outcomes through interventions such as enacting role play and practice, attending field visits with therapists, acting as co‑therapist in sessions, listening to audio tapes of clinicians’ sessions, and providing feedback about clinicians’ performance.
  • Provide administrative support targeting systemic barriers to treatment success.
  • Assure availability of clinical and administrative support to clinicians 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
  • Assure therapist accessibility to clients when needed at times most likely to…