Social Worker Manager

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• Provides direct individual, couples and group mental health care services to UR students using various short term psychotherapy treatment approaches. Creates treatment plans based on assessment data and clinical interview. Routinely revises treatment plans based on client’s progress toward treatment goals and life situation needs. Summarizes progress and recommends alternatives to students at the completion of the course of care.
• Provides intake assessments, clinical triage, and mental health crisis management services for students. Provides careful diagnosis, assessment, and evaluation using standard UCC psychometric instruments and clinical assessment interviews.
• Provides clinical supervision of professionals in training from psychology, social work and counseling backgrounds. Teaches seminars and workshops as assigned.
• Oversees quality improvement and quality assurance activities including peer review and client satisfaction reports. Attends and presents at quarterly UHS QI meetings. Leads the creationg and review of UHS and UCC policies and procedures related to behavioral health care for compliance with AAAHC accreditation. Attends the twice monthly UHS leadership team meeting on a rotating basis. Attends the weekly UCC exec team meeting. Helps to develop goals and objectives for UCC and UHS.
• Provides leadership for the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies and procedures for clinical service delivery, including type and scope of service provision, tracking of utilization of services, and research on outcome of services. Chairs Clinical Services Committee in review of clinical services and special projects as needed, including the development and assessment of clinical services. Leads the all staff weekly clinical meeting to update staff on current utilization and any changes. Monitors the need for end of semester plans, waitlist management when necessary and overseeing requests for extended therapy sessions.  Provides consultation for support/administrative staff on difficult and unusual clinical or case management situations, coordinates agency responses to cases involving special needs and risks, unusual circumstances, and emergency needs.
• Completes timely documentation of care in the electronic medical record including initial evaluation, assessment, treatment reports, progress notes, referrals, communications, treatment planning and progress
• on treatment goals according to guidelines set forth by UCC/UHS policies and procedures and in keeping with generally accepted standard for mental health care delivery.

Other duties as assigned

• Master’s degree in Social Work or doctorate degree in clinical/counseling psychology Required
• Five years of full-time clinical experience Preferred
• At least one year working in a clinical administrative role. Preferred
• Experience working with an ethnically diverse college-age population. Preferred
• Equivalent combination of education and experience accepted. Preferred

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with expertise in a team setting. Preferred
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to develp and maintain clear record-keeping systems. Preferred
• Skills in collecting and analyzing clinical data to inform recommendations for practice management. Preferred
• Ability to work evenings and to provide after hours on-call availability. Preferred

• NYS certification and licensure, or other equivalent education, certification and licensure Required

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