Associate Director of School Based Services

All are welcome! People of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply!

Washburn Center for Children is a leading children’s mental health center, caring for a wide variety of children’s needs associated with anxiety, depression, behavioral difficulties and trauma.

The 141-year-old nonprofit offers critical mental health intervention to help children - and their families - realize hope. Washburn Center for Children serves almost 4,000 children ages 0-18 and approximately 9,000 family members each year. Washburn Center’s three office locations – Brooklyn Park, Edina, and Minneapolis – serve the entire Twin Cities metro area. The nonprofit also offers in-home services, and its school-based program serves 50+ schools in the Eden Prairie, Bloomington, Minneapolis, Savage, Burnsville and Eagan school districts.

The demand for therapeutic care has skyrocketed. Join our team to help children through the setbacks of life and create a better future. To learn more about how we do that work in homes, schools and clinic-based services, visit us online.

Position Summary 

The Associate Director of School-Based Mental Health Services will collaborate with the Director of School Based Services in overseeing the development, implementation and evaluation of school-based mental health services. This position ensures high-quality care, compliance with regulatory standards, and alignment with the organization’s mission and goals. The Associate Director Provide leadership and supervision of clinical and administrative practices for the School Based (SB) program.

Responsibilities

Clinical Oversight - The Associate Director is expected to ensure effective clinical oversight of SB services including:

1. Provide effective and supportive clinical and administrative supervision on a program level as well as for program supervisors’ individual caseloads.

2. Ensure the program supervisors are providing effective clinical supervision for their supervisees. Provide supervision coverage as needed.

3. Assure adequate internal systems and processes to support effective decision making and program implementation.

4. Ensure compliance with Rule 29, Rule 79, Rule 47, Minnesota Health Care Providers manual, CTSS, Medical Assistance/CMS, state and HIPAA data privacy and security, and commercial health plan clinical requirements.

5. Ensure clinicians and program supervisors are following agency clinical policies as documented in the Clinical Policies and Procedures manual.

6. Partner with the Quality Assurance Supervisor, SB Director, and CCO on quality assurance efforts including documentation completion, peer review, audits, and site visits.

7. Work with program supervisors and clinicians to reliably collect outcomes data and use as appropriate for assessment of treatment progress, consultation, evaluation, quality improvement, and reporting purposes.

8. Support program supervisors, in conjunction with consultants, in leading clinically helpful and meaningful case consultations.

9. Participate in Complex Case Consultations with clinicians and program supervisors as needed.

10. Provide effective SB (outpatient level) assessment and therapy services per required CSE.

Program Management - The Associate Director is responsible for providing effective program management including:

1. Support program supervisors in leading Team meetings to focus on sharing agency news/updates, providing training on EHR or other internal systems, and building connections and support among teammates.

2. Provide oversight of consultation groups and facilitate communication with consultants as needed.

3. Collaborate with the SB Director, COO, program supervisors, and administrative support as well as external referral sources to refine systems to improve access, streamline systems, and facilitate the intake process.

4. Review data reports for all programs and meet regularly with program supervisors to discuss data and outcomes for their programs as well as other programmatic issues.

5. Assure the development and implementation of appropriate action plans by program supervisors to address budget, performance, or outcome issues.

6. Collaborate with the Director to ensure successful implementation of Agency administrative practices related to clinical programs.

7. Work with program supervisors to ensure that all clinicians and programs are maintaining budget.

8. Assure effective program support for agency EDI goals and participate in such efforts as appropriate.

9. Create a positive, respectful, inclusive work environment.

10. Ensure appropriate documentation of program processes.

Community Relations - The Associate Director is expected to build and maintain community relationships including:

1. Represent the agency in the community as needed for collaboration and external communication.

2. Build relationships with community organizations and stakeholders to enhance outreach and maintain effective relationships.

Leadership – The Associate Director will act as a leader in the Agency including:

1. In partnership with the Director, this role will develop and implement strategic goals for the programs.

2. Participate in Agency Supervisors team and small group meetings and any other agency groups or teams as needed to provide communication, support, and training to program supervisors.

3. Perform other duties and assume other responsibilities as agreed upon with the SB Director and CCO.

4. Support, train, and evaluate SB program supervisors.

5. Complete timely annual performance evaluations for all supervisees with clear professional development plans.

6. Provide weekly individual supervision with each direct report and weekly group supervision to program supervisor groups.

Qualifications:

* Master’s or Doctoral degree in Psychology, Social Work, or Marriage & Family Therapy is required.

* 5-10 years of experience providing and supervising mental health services to children is required.

* 10+ years of experience providing and supervising mental health services to children is preferred.

* Independent licensure as a mental health professional in social work, psychology, or marriage and family therapy is required.

BENEFITS at WASHBURN:

Washburn offers benefits to Full-Time benefit eligible employees comprehensive Dental, Vision, Health, Life and Long-term disability insurance.  Additionally, we offer a 403b retirement plan and a flexible benefit option (FSA). 

Vacation:  Paid Vacation accrues at 10 hours of vacation per month - up to 15 days / 120 hours annually.

Sick Leave:  Paid sick leave accrues at 6.68 hours of sick per month - up to 10 days / 80 hours.

Holidays:  There are 2.5 days/20 hours of floating holidays per year in addition to the eight standard holidays.

***Please note that Internships, Part-Time (less than 30 hours/week) and Temporary positions are NOT eligible for all of Washburn Center's benefits***

Washburn Center for Children is an EEO/AA employer: women, minorities, people with disabilities, people that hold different gender identities and expressions and veterans are encouraged to apply. Cultural responsiveness and advancing equity are essential to achieving our mission. Our core values guide how we actively heal, learn and work.

To learn more about life at Washburn and how we work together, visit us online.