Excellent opportunity for behavioral health leaders seeking a meaningful role where their clinical expertise has a direct and lasting impact on young adults, their families, staff, and the broader Connecticut community.
The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) has an opening for a Behavioral Health Clinical Supervisor (PCN 154933) at the Connecticut Valley Hospital (CVH) in the Young Adult Services (YAS) Unit in Middletown.
This position plays a direct role in supporting patient and staff safety, reducing behavioral health risks, strengthening the clinical team, and ensuring that highly acute young adults receive effective, coordinated, and supportive treatment.
Schedule
- 1st shift, 40 hours per week
- 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
What We Can Offer You
- Comprehensive state employee benefits
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- Professional growth and development opportunities
- A commitment to promoting a healthy work/life balance
Position Highlights
- Manages clinical staff and program operations
- Coordinates and plans program activities
- Develops program goals and objectives
- Monitors and evaluates staff performance and identifies training and professional development needs
- Supports quality assurance and regulatory compliance, responds to critical incidents, and promotes patient rights and cultural diversity
- Works closely with DMHAS leadership and serves as a key liaison between the Young Adult Services Unit and the broader Young Adult Services section
A comprehensive medical examination, including drug screening, is required following a conditional offer of employment. All state employees must comply with Connecticut’s Drug‑Free Workplace Policy.
About Us
DMHAS is dedicated to promoting the health and wellness of individuals with behavioral health needs through an integrated, holistic network of services that foster dignity, respect, and self‑sufficiency.
CVH provides trauma informed gender responsive treatment that empowers individuals to manage recovery, improve quality of life and return to the community.
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BEFORE YOU APPLY:
- Meet Minimum Qualifications: Ensure you meet the Minimum Qualifications listed on the job opening by the job closing date. You must specify your qualifications on your application. The minimum experience and training requirements listed must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
- Educational Credits: List your earned credits and degrees from accredited institutions accurately on your application. To receive educational credits towards qualification, the institution must be accredited. If the institution of higher learning is located outside of the U.S., you are responsible for providing documentation from a recognized USA accrediting service which specializes in determining foreign education equivalencies to the contact listed below by the closing date listed on the job posting.
- Resume Policy: Per Public Act 21-69, resumes are not accepted during the initial application process. As the recruitment process progresses, candidates may be required to submit additional documentation to support their qualification(s) for this position. This documentation may include: a cover letter, resume, transcripts, diplomas, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the request and discretion of the hiring agency.
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- Timely Submission: All application materials must be received by the job posting deadline. You will be unable to make revisions once you officially submit your application to the State. Late submissions are rarely accepted, with exceptions only for documented events that incapacitate individuals during the entire duration of the job posting. Request exceptions by emailing [email protected].
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In the Departments of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Developmental Services this class is accountable for directing a clinical division, a clinical discipline or a clinical program within a specified geographic area.
- Manages the staff and operations of a clinical program, discipline or specialized area;
- Coordinates, plans and manages program activities;
- Formulates program goals and objectives;
- Develops or assists in the development and implementation of related policy;
- Interprets and administers pertinent laws;
- Monitors and evaluates staff;
- Prepares or assists in preparation of program budget;
- Maintains contacts with individuals both within and outside of program who might impact on program activities;
- Ensures program compliance with standards established by outside monitoring agencies;
- Participates in grant and contract preparation and administration;
- Manages the recruitment, selection and retention of program staff;
- Ensures compliance with quality assurance findings and recommendations;
- Promotes cultural diversity in workplace and ensures client/individuals rights;
- Identifies and plans training and development needs;
- Analyzes problems at program level and takes appropriate action;
- Initiates workforce planning and monitors staff utilization to meet identified goals;
- Prepares or oversees preparation of reports;
- Investigates and responds to critical incidents;
- May represent program in grievances and hearings;
- May perform clinical duties;
- Performs related duties as required.
- Considerable knowledge of
- principles, practices and issues of behavioral health care;
- resources available to client/individual populations;
- relevant agency policies and procedures;
- Knowledge of
- and ability to apply management principles and practices;
- relevant state and federal laws, statutes and regulations;
- behavioral health policies and systems;
- recovery principles and practices;
- principles and practices of public and/or health care administration;
- Considerable
- interpersonal skills;
- oral and written communication skills;
- Ability to
- influence actions of others;
- negotiate, mediate, and resolve conflicts;
- analyze and synthesize information;
- collaborate within program, department, agency, and community;
- interpret standards, contracts and regulations.
Four (4) years of professional experience in behavioral health care and a Master’s degree in a clinical discipline, public health administration, health care administration or hospital administration.
Two (2) years of the General Experience must have been supervising professional staff.
NOTE: For state employees this experience is interpreted at the level of a Behavioral Health Unit Supervisor, Developmental Services Supervisor of Case Management, Nurse Supervisor or Supervising Clinician.
- Experience supervising program staff in a hospital setting
- Experience treating, or supervising the treatment of, young adults with severe mental illness
- Experience preparing for and undergoing surveys from regulatory bodies such as TJC and DPH
- Experience leading a multidisciplinary team
- Experience working with senior leadership to formulate and implement program goals
- Experience with program development
Department of Developmental Services: Incumbents in this class may be required to maintain the appropriate current license for clinical social work, marital and family therapist, professional counselor, registered nurse or psychologist.
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services: Incumbents in this class must maintain the appropriate current license for clinical social work, marital and family therapist, professional counselor, registered nurse, psychologist or alcohol and drug counselor.
