Mental Health Head of Service

Job description

Position Description: The Head of Service works as the primary clinical supervisor of the STRTP facility. Primarily responsible for all clinical functions to ensure that treatment continuity is maintained for residents and families. The Head of Service is responsible for assessing resident’s mental health needs, supervising the activities of the clinical staff, MHRS, and student interns that provide individual, group and family therapy. Oversees all specialty mental health programming at the STRTP. He/she works closely with the psychiatrist and other MHP providers to ensure that appropriate and coordinated care is being provided for each client. He/she works closely with the STRTP Administrators and other non-clinical staff to ensure that a consistent and collaborative approach is implemented for each individual resident.

Essential functions include:

Maintaining a safe, healthy, and therapeutic environment at the Manuch STRTP.
Ensuring that each child admitted to the program has a mental health assessment within five (5) calendar days of admission.
Ensuring that each child in the STRTP has commonality of needs with the other children in the STRTP, including whether the child’s presence is adverse to the safety or mental health needs of the child or other children admitted to the STRTP.
Ensuring the mental health services identified on each treatment plan are provided and appropriate to meet the individual needs of the child.
Monitoring the quality of the mental health services provided to the children.
Making arrangements, including transportation, for children to receive mental health services that cannot be provided by the STRTP.
Arrangements for special provision of mental health services to children with disabilities including visual and auditory impairment.
Ensuring that documentation and recordkeeping requirements are met.
Development of mental health staff schedules, training schedules, mental health treatment service schedules, medication schedules, and any other schedules for the operation of the STRTP mental health program.