RBHS Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description : Position Summary

The essential duty of the RBHS Manager encompasses overseeing, coordinating, and administering the delivery of community-based behavioral health services across the state. This pivotal role involves the strategic recruitment of RBHS personnel and clientele.

The range of services provided by the Rehabilitative Behavioral Health Services team encompasses a variety of key mental health support functions, including, but not limited to, comprehensive assessments, the creation of personalized service plans, effective crisis intervention, and diligent monitoring of service usage. These services are connected to fostering both internal and external collaborative efforts among agencies, managing authorization requests, and ensuring efficient utilization of resources. The role of the RBHS Manager is essential in overseeing the distribution of new client referrals and maintaining attentive oversight of service utilization patterns. Additionally, this individual plays a crucial role in the professional development of all RBHS personnel through structured training programs. This multi-layered position is essential in ensuring that the clients receive high-quality behavioral health services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following :

• Tracking of referrals, assign all new assessments, RBHS cases, and community behavioral health services statewide.
• Responsible for utilization review and management of statewide community behavioral health services.
• Assist in the development of the program budget and provide financial oversight, while improving and creating revenue streams through service delivery.
• Attend various meetings to collaborate and coordinate with co-workers, referring agencies etc.
• Promote effective communication between referral resources, staff and parents and provides for a regular system of communication of program information and activities.
• Represents Growing Home Southeast within the community to increase the agencies visibility, referrals for services and to establish and maintain positive relationships and new business opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory standards and risk management protocols in accordance with Growing Home Southeast’s policies for RBHS.
• Ensure that adequate supervision, professional development, training occurs as determined in accordance with regulatory requirements and Growing Home Southeast policy.
• Responsible for effectively communicating expectations, needs, decisions, and challenges both internally and externally as necessary and required.
• Establish a network of professional resources and relationships and maintains a professional knowledge base of current best practices and innovative approaches to providing services.
• Assist in facilitating agency orientation / pre-service training as necessary and appropriate.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Master’s degree in human services or related field with 3 years of supervisory experience highly preferred. Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of document supervisory experience in human services or related field required.

Preferred : Licensed practitioner in behavioral health in South Carolina :

The RBHS Manager must be committed to understanding and conducting work consistent with Growing Home Southeast’s mission, values and core principles and exhibit organizational citizenship. The RBHS Manager must also have the ability to forge mutually respectful partnerships; conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change; the ability to maintain the helping role of the practitioner to meet the needs of the persons served or other family members; and the ability to work in partnership with other team members.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

To perform this job successfully, the employee(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.

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