Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA)- Social Worker

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Job description

SUMMARY OF POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA) has a forty-hour responsibility, authority, and accountability for the supervision of the Qualified Mental Health Professionals (QMHP) and Mental Health Professionals (MHP) as well acts as a liaison between service professionals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

1. Ensure ethical and regulatory compliance of organization's recovery rehabilitation services.

2. Record meeting minutes for Staff Meeting.

RESIDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Document all behaviors listed in the Bulletin Board on PCC. Provide this information during Staff Meeting; email or phone appropriate staff and other persons involved in resident care.

2. Support resident's rehabilitative and recovery process with continuity of care from referral through transfer phases of care.

3. Perform clinical oversite, assessment and program development responsibilities including; routine supervision of Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) and Mental Health Professional (MHP) per Abbott House, LLC policy.

4. Review comprehensive assessments and treatment plans, establishing policy and program development, staff training and developing collaborative partnerships with other behavioral health service providers.

5. Review initial evaluations and assessments of potential residents conducted by the Admissions Coordinator, regarding their appropriateness for participation in the program. Contribute to ongoing assessment of resident's progress and growth.

6. Provide education and direction to persons served, family members and/or significant others.

7. Facilitate meetings with family members, collaterals, or with other persons essential to the development or review of the treatment plan, with client's permission.

8. Meet with family member(s) of person served to discuss concerns of person served and/or family as needed.

9. Monitors complaint reports daily for allegations of potential abuse or neglect, or the loss or misappropriation of resident property, and participates in these investigations.

10. Serve as Grievance Official, ensuring all formal grievances are addressed adequately and performs analysis of grievance data.

STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Assume authority, responsibility, and accountability of directing each program and supervising QMHP and MHP.

2. Train and supervise the entire social services staff: QMHP and MHP

3. Promote integration of person-centered methods in staff's provision of direct services to person served including; organizing and facilitating person centered psychosocial rehabilitation activities, symptom management and skill development focused interventions, supervision of the milieu and case management.

4. Review and approve, by signature, comprehensive assessments conducted by the (Q)MHP. Determine in writing if any additional evaluations are required to assess the resident's functioning or service needs.

5. Ensure the following are in the individual treatment plan: goals of services, intermediate objectives to achieve the goals, the specific Part 132 mental health services to be provided, the frequency of Part 132 services to be provided, and which staff is responsible for delivering services.

6. Facilitate programing of staff's provision of psychosocial rehabilitation services in a manner consistent with best practice, recovery and evidence-based models of care, including collection and management of clinical and quality improvement data.

7. Provide oversite, training, establishes policy and develops programing that support the organizations effective mitigation of risks associated with safety and wellbeing of resident's, employees, and community.

8. Provide oversite, training, establishes policy and develop programing that supports efficient and effective service provision. Includes operations of interdisciplinary treatment team that pertain to developing, reviewing and updating treatment goals as well as facilitate successful transfers of care.

9. Develop and organize resources that supports the social services department's ability to carry out resident referral services. Collect Linkage information from all Departments.

10. Responsible for hiring social services staff needed to ensure safe care of persons served.

11. Ensure residents' needs are met through appropriate staff interventions and community linkage and/or resources. Whenever possible, include the residents' family or significant others who are involved in their care.

12. Implement programming and treatment for all levels of care to efficiently and effectively rehabilitate the person served.

13. Meet regularly and staff cases with designated community agency as needed.

14. Make period inspection of treatment staff functions and records to assure that quality control measures are maintained and periodic rounds to ensure that personnel are performing duties that meet the needs of the consumer.

15. Provide clinical case supervision to all treatment personnel reporting to you and providing treatment.

16. Develop, implement and maintain a plan for clinical supervision of all non-licensed staff who perform Part 132 services. Must provide the supervision for a minimum of one hour per quarter through face-to-face conference. Supervision must be documented in a written record.

17. Schedule work hours, personnel, work assignments, etc., to expedite work and ensure consumer's needs are met.

FACILITY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Involved in quality improvement activities on an ongoing basis (such as implementing processes from of performance measurement reviews, participation in Resident Council and Performance Improvement teams, making suggestions to improve a process, designing curriculum for groups).

2. Develop and oversee Performance Improvement Project (PIP) tools to improve the delivery of care to persons served.

3. Perform pertinent administrative management of electronic communication, documentation and records management systems.

4. File reports to Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) when warranted.

5. Review and evaluate each program's work force and make recommendations as needed.

6. Develop and coordinate educational in-services that provide clinical as well as administrative training, in conjunction with the Director of Education.

7. Perform administrative requirements, such as completing necessary forms, reports, personnel forms, payroll documentation etc., and submit to the Executive Director as required.

POLICY AND REGULATION:

1. Maintain knowledge of current Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Facility (SMHRF) regulations.

2. Maintain knowledge of current Coalition for the Advancement of Rehabilitation Facility (CARF).

3. Ensure social services staff follows regulations of all regulatory bodies that may have jurisdiction on the facility, i.e. IDPH, IDPA, City or Village Board, OSHA, etc.

4. Write and update policies for clinical supervision and documentation for Social Services Department.

5. Meet with appropriate administrative personnel, Medical Director and Executive Director to review and update policies and procedures as needed.

6. Make written and oral recommendations concerning the operations of the programs to the Executive Director.

7. Meeting with person served to discuss, develop or review a treatment plan.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $30.00 - $40.00 per hour

Expected hours: 8 per week

Benefits:
401(k)
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
Psychiatry
Schedule:
8 hour shift

Application Question(s):
Do you have you any of the following licensure: LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, NP

Education:
Master's (Preferred)

Experience:
mental health: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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