Shift Lead

Job Schedule: Full Time
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details: May require evening and/or weekend hours as needed. Every day, over 37,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.
Natchaug Hospital is Eastern Connecticut’s leading provider for children, adolescents and adults with mental illness and substance abuse addictions. We offers a variety of programs including inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, residential treatment for court-involved teenage girls, geriatric services, clinical day treatment schools and chemical dependency services. Through our multi-site network of care, we constantly strive to meet its mission in Helping people find their way while educating and empowering individuals to participate in their own care and recovery.
Natchaug Hospital's Journey House program is a specialized residential treatment facility on the Mansfield campus for adolescent girls with identified needs for behavioral health services who admitted through a referral from the juvenile justice system. Residents and the treatment team collaborate on discharge planning, which includes coordination of individual and family therapy, medication management, identification of a primary care physician and any vocational, recreational or educational planning.
Lead Behavioral Health Clinician works in coordination with interdisciplinary teams to organize, prepare, and deliver evidence based clinical services in the Journey House . Clinical services include individual, group and family therapy. Key responsibilities of Lead Behavioral Health Clinician:
Provides direct patient care that may include case management, care coordination, interdisciplinary collaboration for care transition needs, crisis intervention/safety planning, counseling, and emotional support to patients and families coping with illness, trauma, or end -of-life care, referral and discharge planning.
Assists in the coordination of programming which may include staff scheduling, scheduling clinical activities, program development, utilization review, case load assignment, and attending meetings as directed by manager.
May assist in the hiring process for new staff, supporting expansion of initiatives, supporting clinician productivity, leading team meetings, conducting staff education and training.
Provide social work field supervision to second year social work students.
*** Lead Behavioral Health Clinicians are eligible for a Sign On Bonus up to $1,500.Master’s degree in social work, or counseling, or marriage and family therapy or related Human Service field required.
Minimum of one year of experience as a licensed Clinician working with behavioral health and/or chemical dependency population.
LCSW, LPC, LMFT, LADC or PsyD.
Valid Driver's License.
Hartford HealthCare provides eligible employees with an extensive benefits package and all the benefits of working with a top-notch organization:
Sign-on Bonus
Medical and dental benefits
Generous paid time off with accrual starting on the date of hire
Discounts on services, products and optional coverages – movie tickets, pet insurance, travel and more
With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge – helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance.