Clinical Team Lead

Description

Easterseals Blake Foundation started as the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Southern Arizona. Since then, we have expanded our services to better serve our community members. We are now one of Arizona's top providers of comprehensive behavioral health services, child welfare, and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve more than 40,000 individuals and families across 10 counties and support more than 3,700 children in Foster Care throughout Southern Arizona. Are you ready to make profound, positive differences in people's lives every day?

We offer our full-time employees the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Flexible Spending Account 
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life insurance
• Voluntary Short-term Disability insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Employer paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

General Position Description: Assists the Clinical Team with directed oversight while maintaining a current caseload. 

Program Summary: Evidence-based counseling offered to children, families, and adults. All services are designed to meet the needs of the individual and family, ensuring that members receive quality care. Trained clinicians focus on strengths to support members and families through life transitions, behavioral concerns, and/or behavioral health and substance abuse challenges Play-based therapy is utilized for young children. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses the member’s behavioral health needs to develop therapy treatment goals and recommendations for follow-up support and services.  
• Administers screeners and standardized testing based on clinical need.  
• Schedules therapy sessions with members and obtains required consents for treatment and licensure.  
• Licensed Associate Substance Abuse Counselors and Licensed Independent Substance Use Counselors will provide assessment and therapy related to substance use treatment and recovery (A.A.C R4-6-705).  
• Provides effective crisis assessment and intervention, including arranging for emergency psychiatric evaluation/hospitalization as indicated. 
• Meets requirements of productivity standards set for Clinical Team Leads. 
• Completes progress notes and other required documentation using the appropriate covered service billing codes and writes comprehensive and timely reports as required by funding source and/or system partners. 
• Oversees and processes incoming therapy referrals, including a comprehensive review of corresponding clinical documentation and follow-up with the referral source as needed.
• Provides counseling and assessment to therapy referrals not yet assigned to a permanent therapist and maintains a concurrent, reduced therapy caseload. 
• Reviews documents for quality and contract compliance. Signs off on documents as the Behavioral Health Professional. Assigns therapy referrals to clinical staff as needed.
• Communicates team concerns to program supervisors and directors and maintains strict confidentiality of client and staff information. Provides availability to team members for problem-solving for unforeseen issues that may arise.
• Covers for team members during absences or scheduling conflicts.
• Provide a broad range of administrative and supervisory functions. Supervises assigned staff in accordance with EBF personnel practices including recruitment, training, performance evaluations, and day to day scheduling. Participates in the process of ongoing professional development. Maintains comprehensive communication among all contacts within the agency, members, and external agencies. Models professional standards and ethics in accordance with EBF Code of Conduct, Strategic Plan, Mission, and Vision. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements: 

• Associate license in social work, counseling, marriage and family, or substance abuse recognized by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. 
• 6 months of therapy experience. 
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred. 

Regulatory: 

• Must be at least 21 years of age. 
• Current, unrestricted AZ driver’s license with no more than two (2) minor moving violations or one (1) accident within the past three (3 years). Three (3) years of driving experience required.
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an AZ DPS Level 1 fingerprint clearance card (employer provides).
• CPR and First Aid cer