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Behavioral Health Provider (O-6 Billet) Supervisory
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Posted 13 days ago
About the Role
Supervisory Behavioral Health Provider leads facility behavioral health services for ICE detainees, providing clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, case management, suicide prevention, discharge planning, staff supervision, training, program oversight, and coordination with medical, custody, legal, and HQ stakeholders to support safe, high-quality care. This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.
What You'll Do
- →DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Behavioral Health Clinical Practice Serves as a supervisory behavioral health and substance abuse consultant within the facility.
- →Conducts mental health assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis of detained non-citizens (including the utilization of the DSM-V to formulate findings).
- →Provides supportive counseling, psychotherapy, substance abuse education, group therapy, etc. utilizing psycho-educational and other evidenced based treatment modalities as appropriate (may be delivered in-person or virtually).
- →Utilizes the electronic medical record (EMR) to complete clinical documentation, and to review and process telephone encounters, etc.
- →Promotes and facilitates multidisciplinary (interprofessional collaboration) treatment approach to care for detained non-citizens.
- →Provides referral, identification, and evaluation for those identified as having a serious mental illness using Mental Health Review form (IHSC-883).
- →Works in conjunction with ICE/OPLA to manage serious mental illness (SMI) caseload.
- →Behavioral Healthcare Planning, Evaluation, and Development Coordinates with CD, Health Service Administrator (HSA), Regional Behavioral Health Consultants (RBHC), Behavioral Health Clinical Consultants (BHCC), and Psychiatric Services Program (PSP) in responding to Civil Rights Civil Liberties (CRCL) findings.
- →Collaborates with the CD/or designee in providing behavioral health education and guidance to staff related to the care of Chemically Dependent detained non-citizens.
- →Reviews reports (i.e., Executive Dashboard) and communicates regularly with CD, HSA, PSP, and BHU HQ team on trends, issues, challenges, etc. and impacts on behavioral health operations at the facility level (including, but not limited to, Access to Care, Productivity, Suicide Risk management, etc.) and work collaboratively to address the same.
- →Participates in review of behavioral health processes and procedures within the facility; serves on the local performance improvement committee; assists in the completion of clinical performance risk identification/improvement process related to behavioral health; and assists in preparation towards National accreditation/compliance.
- →Behavioral Health Care Coordination Maintains ongoing communication with physicians, PSP Providers, and Advanced Practice Providers (APP) and reports on the detained non-citizen's response to and/or compliance with prescribed medication.
- →Facilitates multi-disciplinary treatment (MDT) team meetings using a collaborative approach to plan and implement treatment for detained non-citizens identified with mental health conditions.
- →Coordinates with BHU-HQ to facilitate the integration of care at the macro level for the detained non-citizens.
Requirements
- ✓REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: Clinical Psychologists require successful completion of a PhD or PsyD in Clinical Psychology from an accredited graduate program.
- ✓A graduate program in Clinical Psychology accredited by the American Psychological Association is preferred.
- ✓Psychologists must hold a full, current and unrestricted licensed by a State or Territory at the Doctoral level for psychologists.
- ✓The Clinical Psychologist license must be maintained in a permanent, full, independent, and unrestricted status during the term of employment.
- ✓This position requires clinical privileging by IHSC. -OR- Clinical Social Workers require successful completion of a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from a graduate program in social work accredited by Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
- ✓Licensed Clinical Social Workers must hold a current, active, valid, and unrestricted clinical license to practice clinical social work independently, offered by a U.S.
- ✓State, the District of Columbia, Commonwealth, territory, or jurisdiction is required.
- ✓The clinical social worker license must be maintained in a permanent, full, independent, and unrestricted status during the term of employment.
- ✓The clinical social worker license must be the highest clinical license of clinical social work designated by the licensing board where it was received.
- ✓This position requires clinical privileging by IHSC.
- ✓Minimum of 7 years post-licensure clinical experience providing independent clinical assessment, diagnosing using the DSM-V-TR, and developing clinical treatment plans without supervision.
- ✓Minimum of 3 years administrative experience in a supervisory capacity.
- ✓Provide documentation/transcripts demonstrating clinical work within completed graduate program as requested.
- ✓Require completion of 20 hours of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) annually approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) or the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
Personality Fit
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