Associate Clinical Manager Behavior Health

The Associate Clinical Manager is responsible for managing a unit/department by implementing and maintaining specific policies, procedures, and guidelines; leading team members in providing direct patient care by demonstrating expert clinical knowledge; ensuring compliance with quality and safety initiatives and practices; and partnering with a multidisciplinary team in meeting the clinical needs of patients and families. The Associate Clinical Manager also provides leadership and management to unit/department team members and assumes responsibility for staffing levels, materials management and space utilization to meet the patient care, training and fiscal needs of the division. Finally, the Associate Clinical Manager serves as the primary clinical liaison with families and referring providers, facilitating exemplary customer service/responsiveness, assisting with complex clinical triage/new referral scheduling and other customer service needs.

Duties & Responsibilities

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

Neonate - <30 days
Infancy - >30 days to 1yr
Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs
Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs
School age - >5yrs to 13yrs
Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs
Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Manages the implementation and maintenance of unit/department specific policies, procedures, and guidelines while ensuring consistency with evidence-based practice and organizational policies, standards, and procedures.
2. Leads unit/department team members in providing direct patient care by demonstrating expert clinical knowledge and promoting the application of the clinical best practices and professional standards in daily work.
3. Oversees the admission, discharge, and general flow of patients; and monitors and orders diagnostic and treatment materials and other needed clinical supplies.
4. Interprets and explains regulatory standards and hospital policies, procedures, and rules to employees and ensures compliance with applicable quality and safety initiatives and practices.
5. Ensures staffing resources are utilized appropriately and shifts resources to meet both patient and unit needs.
6. Partners with a multidisciplinary team in meeting the clinical needs of patients and families. Rounds with patients, families and team members to promote patient family experience and quality patient care.
7. Resolves operational and patient/family issues, making decisions that are inclusive of multiple perspectives and solves underlying problems.
8. Serves as the primary clinical liaison with families and referring providers, assisting with triaging and scheduling of new patient referrals, complex customer service issues and providing expert clinical consultation as needed to meet the needs of the community.
9. Assists team members in achieving unit outcomes, performance and professional development standards; identifies opportunities for continual improvement.
10. Champions clinical practice and professional growth by working with Departmental leadership to meet the educational needs of the unit/department and by monitoring and participating in the assessment of basic clinical competencies. Develops, coaches, and evaluates team members. Mentors team members in creating/evaluating projects focused on improving clinical practice.
11. Provides leadership on decisions involving hiring, terminations, promotions, and disciplinary actions as required.
12. Monitors expenditures for unit/department and participates in the development of budget recommendations.
13. Provides input into financial management activities including operational budgetary decisions and cost-containment.

SCOPE & LEVEL
Guidelines: Performs a combination of management and supervisory duties and responsibilities. Work is tactical and operational in nature.
Complexity: Duties performed include operational and organizational planning, developing standards, schedules, priorities, guidelines, processes, measurement (evaluation) systems, implementation of production and performance management standards, and allocating resources.
Decision Making: Determines strategy priority shifts for the division or department. Communications: Contacts where the exchange of information, support, influence, and cooperation may have a very significant impact on the division, programs, and/or policies of the organization. Supervision Received: Expected to resolve problems that arise in the normal course of the work. Work may be discussed with higher level managers and reviewed for soundness of judgment and feasibility of decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor's
  • Master's Preferred
    
• Area of Study
  • Social Work, Counseling, Psychology).
    
• Experience
  • Five years of clinical experience
    
• Equivalency
  • Professional experience, in addition to the required experience, may substitute the bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis. A Master's degree may substitute for the required experience on a year-for year basis.
    
• Licenses & Certifications
  1. BLS for Healthcare Providers/CPR, and appropriate state license/certification for their field of expertise. Depending on the discipline, employees may also be required to have national certification in their area of specialty (e.g. LCSW, BCBA, LPC)
     
     

Shift/Schedule -

Required to work a minimum of 4 shifts per week (either 4- 10's or 2 - 8's and 2 - 12's). 2 shifts per week must cross over into night shift (past 7p). Some weekend coverage required.

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $97,718.13 to $146,577.19

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.