Behavioral Health Clinical Manager

The Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum in the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) is seeking a Director for the Medical Student Counseling Center. This position provides direction and leadership to enhance the emotional and behavioral health and effective functioning of medical and physician assistant students by creating delivering and evaluating clinical and non-clinical/consultative programs and services. This position provides clinical counseling assessment and consultative services. Incumbents in this job family are required to be a State of Iowa licensed mental health provider.

Primary Duties

Provision of Clinical Services and Programs

• Directs and provides leadership in the provision of Clinical Services and programs for the Medical Student Counseling Center (MSCC) including programs and services in the areas of mental health counseling outreach and prevention programming and student disability and accessibility services.

• Lead complex risk assessment intervention and evaluation processes.

• Determines the psychological and behavioral needs of students sets priorities for the provision of clinical services and programs and allocates resources in line with the priorities.

• Evaluates services to determine areas for improvement and opportunities for innovation.

• Consults with staff daily to address clients needs and to engage in complex risk assessment.

• Design and implement programs and outcome evaluations.

• Oversees organization-wide services and programs assesses quality and effectiveness in order to best meet organizational goals.

Educational/Professional Training

• May provide clinical supervision of students and/or licensed professionals.

• Provides oversight training and case consultation to senior staff therapists and to psychologists/therapists-in-training.

• Through clinical supervision and training establishes best practices for mental health services and monitors adherence to ethical standards.

• May provide/deliver educational/training series.

• Teaches about counseling center services and mental health resources and shares information and expertise about mental health. Offers knowledge and guidance in assessing students at risk coaches others to respond and makes appropriate referrals.

• Apply advanced knowledge and expertise across disciplines to supervise and train staff and students.

• Oversees the delivery of prevention programming in key areas of mental health such as suicide prevention and reduction of risky use of alcohol and drugs.

Consultation

• Provide complex consultations with systemic application that includes policy issues processes and triaging.

• Collaborates with the designated psychiatrists and/or the nurse practitioner to organize therapeutic services and to oversee coordination of care.

• Create develop and implement behavioral health training programs.

Human Resources Management

• Hire develop and manage the performance of staff; ensure staff are compliant with UI policies and procedures.
• Oversees the hiring training and performance development and appraisal of counseling center staff and implements policies to enhance staff engagement and productivity.
• Through clinical supervision establishes best practices for mental health and disability services and monitors adherence to ethical standards.

Financial Management

• Develops and manages the center budget allocating resources to services and programs.

• Develop policies and procedures monitors adherence and advocates for increases to the center budget as necessary to meet student needs.

• Develop revenue generation programs including grants and ideas for cost reduction.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Develop strategic plan elements.

• Collaborate with Assistant Dean to develop and implement a comprehensive CCOM Mental Health and Well-Being Promotion Strategic Plan.

• Establishes and revises long-term vision and goals for the center. Develop policies and procedures for the center and monitors adherence.

• Designs develops and continuously monitors the CCOM Mental Health and Well-being Promotion Strategic Plan in collaboration with collegiate leadership.

• Coordinate agency or unit areas or sub-areas including the development of policies and procedures for areas or sub-areas.

• May convene CCOM Student Disability Accommodations Committee meetings and serves as an ex-officio member. Supervises Accessibility Specialist who helps students with the process for requesting USMLE disability accommodations disseminate committee decisions in accordance with legal and ethical standards and college policy and assist the curriculum unit in implementing reasonable accommodations.

• Collaborates with Associate and Assistant Deans faculty staff administrators and other healthcare professionals to encourage systemic support for psychological well-being of medical students and physician assistant students.

• Oversee compliance with ethical standards rules and regulations.

• Lead Quality Assurance activities.

• Lead customer service initiatives and complaint resolutions.

• Develop communication plans regarding services and programs.

• Develop and maintain data and file systems.

For a full job description please send an e-mail to the contact listed below.

Percent of Time: 100%

Pay Grade: 6A

Highlights:

-Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health dental life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans

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