Clinical Services Manager

Banyan is a not-for-profit organization that has provided quality services to the youth justice, children, and senior`s community support sectors since 1978. Banyan is committed to improving the mental, physical, and social well-being of at-risk populations in our service areas of Hamilton, Niagara, Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk, and Wellington.

*Purpose of Position*

Reporting to the Director, Community Services in accordance with Banyan Policy, Practice & Procedure Manual, the Clinical Manager will provide organizational leadership in the area of clinical practice for Banyan Community Services.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team the Clinical Manager will ensure that Banyan?s programs are evidenced informed, meet legislative standards, strategic plans, reporting requirements and professional standards and that the strategies employed to support clients achieve their goals are individualized, objective, monitored, and evaluated.

In addition, the Clinical Manager will contribute to the organization?s continuous quality improvement through recommendations of changes to practices, procedures and policy of the organization.

*Position Responsibilities*

_Management_

1. Clinical Supervision: Provide clinical supervision of direct professional practice; supporting clinicians through clinically complex issues, critical self-reflection and promoting continued learning. Meet with each clinical staff at minimum bi-weekly to review professional practice.

2. Oversees clinical team in all of the following areas: intake, assessment, and the development of individualized youth driven comprehensive plans of care in consultation with the young person?s Probation Officer. Case Management plans will be evidenced informed, measurable, tied to individual goals and the goals of the program. CMPs will promote strengths and competencies for sustained change, while simultaneously mitigating identified risk factors and promoting protective factors across the various ecological levels. They will be based on the dynamic interplay of the needs/strengths of the individual young person and their family and current research as it pertains to young persons.

3. The Clinician Manager will be available for professional guidance, development, mentoring and execution when required for client planning. Plans types ? Safety, Suicide Watch, Individual, Observation, Behaviour and Clinical.

4. Caseload and workload management monitor productivity and manage caseloads of community clinical team, reallocating resources where appropriate.

5. Available to other Managers in regard to clinical opinion for client care in other programs.

6. Oversee and Program manage the following clinical programs: Domestic Violence and Community Youth Justice programs.

* Assign new referrals to staff in Casework?s
* Coordinate Psychiatry clinic for clients.

7. Advocacy ?ensures resources are tied to identified and assessed needs and goals of the clients.

8. Works collaboratively with the Primary Care Team to work together to improve the care a young person receives while in Banyan?s care.

*Supervision*

1. Clinical supervisory responsibility including,

* Clinicians associated within other programs-Residential, Young Parent and PAR programs.
* Clinical supervision of direct professional practice; supporting clinicians through clinically complex issues, critical self-reflection and promoting continued learning.
* Recruitment and performance management (jointly with Manager).
* Clinicians associated with Community Youth Justice Counselling & Assessment and Domestic Violence Programs:
* Clinical supervision of direct professional practice; supporting clinicians through clinically complex issues, critical self-reflection and promoting continued learning.
* Instrumental Supervision including, but not limited to, recruitment, performance management and performance evaluation.

2. Recruitment and ensuring all new Clinical staff complete orientation and that mandatory training is