Counseling Supervisor

ACH Child and Family Services•Fort Worth, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Counseling Supervisor will coordinate counseling and skills services, including crisis calls, referrals, counseling, and skill-based sessions, to ensure clients receive timely, competent, and caring responses from initial contact through discharge. This role involves providing ongoing supervision to direct reports, ensuring the agency's philosophy and practices are consistently implemented. The supervisor will also represent the agency in the community.

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology or related field required.
Licensed as one of the following: Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor or Associate (LPC or LPC-Associate), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist or Associate (LMFT or LMFT-A), Licensed Psychological Associate or Psychologist required.
Three years’ experience providing crisis intervention, intake and assessment to at-risk youth and families.
Two years of supervisory experience.
Training in counseling models, especially Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed care, trauma counseling, youth and family counseling and evidenced-based programming.

Nice To Haves

Additional certification as an LPC-Supervisor, LMFT-Supervisor or LCSW-Supervisor preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide oversight of curriculum-based techniques and methods used by Counselors and Family Support Specialists to increase their skill levels.
Oversee administrative aspects for Counselors and Family Support Specialists to ensure staff productivity and accountability for Family and Youth Success (FAYS) Program contract requirements, ACH training, documentation, and service provision.
Provide direct reports with supervision through staffing and case reviews to ensure effectiveness, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) fidelity, and culturally and socioeconomically sensitive services.
Follow policies and procedures of ACH and represent the agency in the community to generate referral activity, stakeholder support, and collaboration opportunities with service providers.
Provide supervision to Counselors, Family Support Specialists, and Child and Family Services Interns.
Meet bi-weekly or as needed with supervisees to monitor clinical caseloads, set schedules, assign cases to meet productivity goals, and ensure timely, competent, and caring services.
Assess whether curriculum-based intervention resources need to be shifted to meet community needs or demand.
Ensure supervisees achieve the conduct and performance goals of ACH and the RHRL program.
Ensure supervisees document services in a timely manner and achieve performance outputs and outcomes.
Ensure supervisees comply with all personnel policies.
Complete administrative tasks for supervision, including annual performance reviews, bi-weekly timesheets, and reimbursement processing.
Communicate regularly and effectively with supervisor.
Participate in and occasionally conduct in-service training.
Participate in training on evidence-based programs, ACH, and FAYS Program/RHRL contractual and accreditation requirements.
May provide core services on a limited basis.
Organize and give presentations as assigned.
Be on-call for Safe Place® as needed.
Maintain on-call phone during assigned shifts, answering calls and coordinating to address caller needs.
Complete all necessary documentation for RHRL and agency requirements, including reports and billing.