Seeking a fulfilling position as a mental health leader with emphasis on serving your community?

Greater Valley Health Center has been serving the Flathead Valley since 2007. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, GVHC provides the highest quality of care and a comprehensive list of services to meet all of your family’s healthcare needs. Sliding fee discounts based on your family’s size and income ensure that no services are denied based on the inability to pay. GVHC is dedicated to providing patient centered, integrated primary medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare for all ages.

We are seeking a dynamic leader who, under general supervision of the Chief Operating Officer and Behavioral Health Director, works as a member of the Community Health Center primary care team, providing clinical leadership, supervision, training, and management of the clinical service within the Behavioral health/substance use department to assure that the services are being conducted in an ethical manner that is within the scope of licensure, and assures that treatment adheres to Greater Valley Health Center’s standards and philosophy. This position is responsible to provide trainings within and outside of Greater Valley Health Center in particular areas of expertise, maintain a clinical presence on integrative committees, assure ongoing clinical work during temporary absence of supervisees, and oversee clinical internships.  This position may supervise clinicians in community mental health/behavioral health department.

Qualifications:

Requires graduation from an accredited university or college in professional counseling, a Master’s in Social Work with focus on clinical social work, or psychological counseling.  Applicants must be licensed by the State of Montana’s Board of Behavioral health as a LCPC or LCSW for three years and demonstrate acceptable supervision training and state licensure.

Experience:

Preference to candidate with at least five years’ experience in a clinical or mental health setting

Experience providing trainings to professional and lay audiences.

Demonstrated capacity to develop a clinical program improvement, inculcate it into the culture and evaluate its effectiveness.

Demonstrated leadership capacity within the agency.

Must possess and maintain a valid Montana driver’s license

 

Knowledge, skills, and abilities required:

Advanced knowledge in the areas of child development, family systems, psychopathology, psychodynamic functioning, attachment development, and impacts of trauma, abuse, neglect, and substance use on individuals.

Ability to articulate complex psychological principles and findings in a way that is clearly understandable to staff and lay people within the community.  Comfortable in speaking in front of a professional audience.

Ability to think critically and develop outcome measures that test the efficacy of new programs.

Ability to integrate input from supervision and to provide supervision that promotes clinical growth and expertise.

Interpersonal skills required to promote secure, trusting, respectful, and empathetic relationships with staff, clients, and external stakeholders.

Demonstrates initiative, insight and curiosity about self-functioning that inspires continual professional and personal growth within other staff.

Maintains up to date knowledge of evidence-based practices that are relevant for individuals and services provided.

Familiarity with community resources.

Performs monitoring exercises to assure efficiency and compliance with agency, state, and federal rules, regulations, and standards.  Communicates any deficiencies to the Director of Behavioral Health and/or the Quality/Risk Management Director to assist with remedy.

Exceptional organizational skills and ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a wide variety of people in accordance with all governing standards.

Ability to work under minimal administrative supervision, exercise a high degree of initiative, organize and manage time and tasks with a high degree of flexibility, sustain a sense of priority and focus, and manage personal needs under frustrating and stress conditions.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of the role:  These duties are the essential functions and are not all-inclusive of all duties that the incumbent performs.

Embraces Greater Valley Health Center’s mission.

Provides leadership in planning for community health center behavioral health and substance use services, accurately represents the community health care services provided by Greater Valley Health Center and works collaboratively with other agency leaders.

Responsible and oversight of departmental business measures for financial, quality and operational standards and creating strategies for variances identified.

Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with the various constituencies within the schools including principals, teachers, counsellors, nurses, parents, for operational oversight.

Works with the Clinical Director to assure that clinical and operational policies and procedures are current, relevant, and ethical across all School Based Services and Community Outpatient Services and in compliance with the Administrative Rules of Montana.

Participates in agency wide and community wide meetings.

Provides or coordinates specific content training to staff to ensure that interventions are in line with Greater Valley Health Center philosophy and practices and is responsive to community needs.

Provides or coordinates training and consultation to varied audiences outside of the agency in area of expertise.

Advises and implements new clinical programs to enhance treatment, develops and refines outcome measurements to determine the efficacy of new programs in coordination with the Director of Behavioral Health.

Provides clinical supervision for current and in-training therapists and graduate level interns.  This training and oversight includes guiding and monitoring all clinical documentation including assessments, treatment plans, progress note writing, treatment monitoring/reviews, and written reports.

Covers for clinical duties and responsibilities in the temporary absence of clinical supervisees.

Special Requirements:

Have and maintain a valid Montana’s driver license.

State licensure for Clinical Supervision

Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k), STD, Life Insurance, PTO