Behavioral Health Supervisor

D A Blodgett-St Johns•Grand Rapids, MI

23d

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Supervisor provides leadership and clinical oversight to therapists delivering services across multiple settings, including school-based mental health through Kent School Services Network (KSSN), home or community-based services via Network180’s CCBHC model, and the D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s residential campus. This role ensures high-quality, trauma-informed care for children and families by guiding clinicians in assessment, treatment planning, evidence-based interventions, and effective linkage to community resources. The supervisor supports programming that addresses a wide range of behavioral health needs—such as depression, anxiety, trauma, self-harm, aggression, and other emotional or behavioral challenges—and promotes strong collaboration with schools, residential teams, and community partners. In addition to direct supervision, the Behavioral Health Supervisor maintains responsibility for monitoring caseloads, outcomes, and contractual requirements across service lines, ensuring consistent practice standards and efficient program operations. The position provides coaching, reflective supervision, and professional development to therapists; oversees data collection and reporting; and helps strengthen integrated care pathways for youth receiving services through Child Welfare, Residential, and community programs.

Requirements

Education requirements are a Master’s degree in social work or a related field.
Licensed to practice therapy in the state of Michigan.
Must possess a strong knowledge of the common diagnoses and treatments for school-aged children and possess the skills necessary to facilitate positive change in a school culture.
The ability to assess and develop the potential of the clinicians and to lead the staff assigned to their supervision.
The ability to withstand and deal constructively with personal and staff frustrations and disappointments.
The ability to work positively in carrying out agency policies and practices, as well as internal and external influences.
The ability to collaborate on creative and innovative ideas to the Clinical Program Manager to strengthen and expand services to meet the changing human needs of the agency and community.
The ability to articulate ideas and prepare written reports and correspondence that are of a high professional standard and are grammatically correct.
The ability to positively collaborate with the Clinical Program Manager and others on the administrative and support staff in carrying out department and agency policies, both in respect to services and personnel management.
Ability to deal effectively with students, parents, staff, and community partners.
Ability to work effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Good computer skills.
Valid driver's license, good driving record and adequate insurance with a car available always.
Ability to work with school, human service, behavioral health, and medical health personnel, understanding and working effectively within the dynamics of various agencies and public schools.
Ability to work with a variety of people both within and outside the Agency.
Knowledge of differing lifestyles and cultures, experience, or training in work with children or adults, understanding and knowledge of clinical issues of foster and adopted children and families, training or practice in individual or group counseling, interviewing, family assessment, and crisis intervention.
Personal qualities of warmth, sensitivity, and ability to establish meaningful therapeutic relationships and a capacity to make sound decisions.
Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences in all interactions with youth, families and employees.
A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of child development and child management.
Extensive knowledge of community resources.
A personal commitment to the Agency’s mission, vision, and value

Responsibilities

Assist the Clinical Program Manager in the hiring of new staff assigned to the team
Employ an ongoing process which evaluates the functioning, needs and effectiveness of assigned staff members on at least a quarterly basis.
Support the TF-CBT service by providing guidance to model adherence for staff in training and staff who have completed model training.
Formally evaluate new staff after three months and all staff on an annual basis in conjunction with the Clinical Program Manager.
Maintain school building relationships with principals and key school personnel.
Maintain relationships with Kent School Services Network key personnel.
Conduct individual supervision as needed to target clinician competency needs and to remove individual barriers to effective implementation of outpatient treatment.
Assure appropriate documentation of clinical effort to allow for peer and supervisory input, and to meet all reporting and communication needs of funding and referral sources.
Provide supportive and corrective feedback to clinicians to promote client outcomes.
Provide administrative support targeting systemic barriers to treatment success.
Assure availability of clinical and administrative support to clinicians be available 24 hours/day 7 days/week during on-call supervisor rotation
Promote staff wellness by encouraging use of agency wellness resources, Sanctuary tools, peer support and reflective supervision practices.
Assure therapist accessibility to clients when needed at times most likely to promote engagement.
Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences in all interactions.
Assure that clinicians achieve engagement with all key participants.
Provide direct clinical training to assure clinician competency in all clinical areas relating to the implementation of outpatient interventions.
Assure that all assessments are comprehensive, multi-systemic, and strength-based, trauma informed, culturally informed and provide adequate information to determine the causes and correlates of referral behavior to direct effective treatment with the ecological context.
Monitor the functioning of clinicians within and take responsibility for seeing that social worker's records, reports, etc., are submitted on a timely and thorough basis.
Assist in the case record review process of our agency’s continuous quality improvement program.
Help maintain the Network 180 contracts by achieving stated evaluation goals and objectives on an annual basis. Coordinate with the Clinical Program Manager in meeting the annual program goals and objectives.
Ensure that services provided are in keeping with the agency's high standards, rules and procedures, and the state's licensing guidelines.
Review and approve for distribution all reports and correspondence of clinicians.
This position may require flexibility in scheduling. We prioritize staff well-being and encourage healthy boundaries, with overtime kept to a minimum and balanced with wellness support.