High Fidelity Clinical Team Lead (TXFFPS)

The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD ("The HARRIS CENTER") is looking for a High Fidelity Clinical Team Lead to join our Texas Family First Prevention Services (TXFFPS) team. Under the general director of the Program Director VI, the High-Fidelity Wraparound Facilitators Clinical Team Leader provides supervision to the wraparound facilitators who are providing wraparound evidence-based services. In addition, they act as liaison collaborating with multiple key community systems that come together with the child, youth and family to create a highly individualized plan to address complex emotional needs. In addition, they provide ongoing evaluations and staff development for wraparound facilitators; interfacing with national wraparound expert consultants and providing overall program management. This position may require flexible working hours and involve travel. Supervision may be both field and clinic locations. Coverage may be required in the absence of downline employees or upper management.

Your role in Action:

• Provides direct clinical training to assure facilitator's competency in all areas relating to the implementation of High-Fidelity Wraparound services.
• Ensures all assessments are comprehensive, multi-systemic, and provide sufficient information to determine and provide appropriate behavioral health interventions for the child and/or youth and families.
• Ensures that High Fidelity Wraparound plans include Trauma Informed and Patient Centered Models requirements.
• Directs or conducts weekly group supervision for High-Fidelity Wraparound team to assure adherence to the High-Fidelity principles and process.
• Ensures that facilitators provide direct ongoing intensive case management services through High-Fidelity Wraparound evidence based principles and practices.
• Conducts individual supervision as needed to target wraparound facilitator's competency needs and to eliminate individual barriers to effective implementation of High-Fidelity wraparound methods.
• Provide appropriate documentation of clinical effort to facilitate peer and supervisory input, and to meet all reporting and communication requirements of funding and referral sources.
• Assures availability of on-call clinical and administrative support to clinicians 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
• Ensures facilitators are accessible to clients when needed to promote engagement with all key participants.
• Provides supportive and corrective feedback to staff to promote positive client outcomes.

What qualifications you will need:

Education:

• Master's degree (M.A.) or equivalent

Experience:

• 3 years of related experience to include one (1) year paid supervisory experience in the field of psychology.
• Four (4) years of experience as a High-Fidelity therapist can be substituted for one year of supervisory experience

Other Key Qualifications:

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), LMFT.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities :

• Must be knowledgeable of computer systems and court procedures.
• Must be able to manage staff effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• The High-Fidelity Wraparound Facilitator Clinical Supervisor should have significant clinical experience in treating serious antisocial behavior in youth, direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies.
• The High-Fidelity Wraparound Facilitator Clinical Supervisor Leadership role includes hiring, performance evaluation, and holding supervisees accountable for performance.
• The High-Fidelity Wraparound Facilitator Clinical Supervisor must have knowledge of family systems theory and application, social ecological theory and application, behavioral therapies theory and application, cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application, pragmatic family therapies theory and application, child development research and its application in treatment, and social skills assessment and intervention.
• Must be knowledgeable in the following areas of theory: Family systems, social ecological, behavioral and application, cognitive-behavioral and application, and pragmatic family therapies and applications.
• Must be able to use implementation of interventions from within or between systems in the youth's natural ecology that affects or influences the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school, and neighborhood).
• Must be knowledgeable in the following areas: childhood risk and protective factors, psychological testing and report writing, clinical practice in a correctional facility with juvenile population, cultural issues as they relate to treatment, current ethical and legal issues.
• Ability to prove administrative supervision, clinical supervision, and training to multidisciplinary clinical and administrative staff.
• Must be able to work with other professionals including but not limited to Department of Family and Protective Services, judges, attorneys, psychiatrists, psychologists, administrators, probation, detention officers, Family Based Support Services Worker (FBSS) and Child Protective Investigators (CPI).

What we have to offer:

The Harris Center not only offers a competitive salary but also a suite of excellent benefits designed to enrich your life both professionally and personally. Imagine a future with a robust retirement plan complemented by our generous company matching - a testament to our investment in your long-term financial well-being. Experience the unique advantage of our prior service credit, accelerating your journey towards a more substantial Paid Time Off accrual, empowering you to enjoy well-deserved breaks.

Enjoy Cell Phone Discounts, exclusive entertainment deals through Tickets at Work, and a free Headspace subscription for mental wellness. Additionally, our Employee Assistance Program supports your overall well-being.

Take advantage of significant financial relief through student loan forgiveness as a valued member of The Harris Center team. As a qualifying entity, our employees are eligible for various student loan forgiveness programs, designed to alleviate the financial burdens associated with higher education.

What else you should know:

• Your work week: Enjoy a flexible schedule with our outpatient clinic.
• Your workplace: Based 6032 Airline Dr. Houston, TX.
• Your flexibility, our commitment: This position may require flexible working hours and involve travel. Supervision may be both field and clinic locations. Coverage may be required in the absence of the practice manager, lead clinician or rehab coordinator.
• The environment: Be prepared to navigate challenging situations - you may occasionally encounter unfavorable conditions. Must be able to manage staff effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Your interactions: Engage with a diverse range of individuals, some of whom may be emotional, physically hostile, agitated or uncooperative. This is an opportunity to employ your strong interpersonal skills and patience to make a real impact in their lives.
• This posting is associated with position #41607.

About us:

The HARRIS CENTER is the state-designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Authority serving Harris County, Texas. As the largest behavioral and developmental disability care center in Texas, The Harris Center provided care to over 96,000 people in fiscal year 2023!

As part of its mission to transform the lives of people with behavioral health and IDD needs in the third largest county in the United States, The HARRIS CENTER provides a full continuum of services at 86 different sites across Harris County. In addition, services are provided in more than 40 different languages as well as sign language to better serve what is one of the most diverse and multi-cultural communities in the nation.

By utilizing the unique expertise of its more than 2,500 employees, The Harris Center is committed to meeting the behavioral health and IDD needs of Harris County residents and giving them hope to live to their fullest potential.